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6 stories · started almost 14 years ago
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the opening

the grand opening was boring yet it was also very romantic me and my husband had went to the opening because he knew ...

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The Cheater

He looked upwards. My goodness - it was high! What would he feel like under these arched ceilings, dwarfed by the mas...

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No "the"

Arches atop tall pedestals opened into an ample space, magnified by groin vault ceilings. Red brick, scrubbed clean, ...

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5 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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On the dotted line

Idyllic farmhouse? Well, appearances can be deceiving, I suppose. If the For Sale sign in front had said, "Abandon a...

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Burning Love

The day it burned down my mother locked herself in her room and wouldn't take any visitors. "Mom, come out of there...

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Sanctuary

The zombies beat upon the door to the church. The flowering vines clung to the brink walls like dead man's fingers, w...

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7 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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mexico

are in me

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The Teleporter, Part 3

Two men entered, wearing respiratory masks. They came over to the register and looked at Martin, who just looked back...

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Forensics

Officer Malone stopped at the doorway of the house. "Do you smell that?" she asked. The rest of the team paused as ...

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Water.

11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Power of water.

Where the sun sets, and the wind blows, two girls run across the ocean, having fun with each other. The two girls liv...

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You know how people always use that metaphor of how an iceberg shows a small portion of the story, but the ice travel...

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Space-worthy

If humans are mostly water, what happens when you remove it? This was the idle yet macabre thought that raced throu...

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11 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Feelings

If you ever pass this house on 23 silverdores street, your sight will be mesmerized. A red checkered pattern clock ha...

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The Border

The border. He had. To find. The border. He'd made this trip a hundred times before and each time the damn thing move...

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You know damn well the head is in the box. You know damn well how this movie will end. But her legs are across yours ...

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18 stories · started about 16 years ago
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sea

Drowning in the sea. That was the trick of it. To be seen to swoon, to fall to the bottom. The pretend to expire. It ...

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sea

Drowning in the sea. That was the trick of it. To be seen to swoon, to fall to the bottom. The pretend to expire. It ...

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Tide

Marjorie was drowning. She felt the pull of the water on her legs and the icy shock in her heart. She hadn't even fe...

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Gradually.

16 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Special Skills

Gradually, Houdini slipped out of his handcuffs. He unshackled his legs and wriggled out of his straitjacket. He was ...

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Genesis

Slowly it built, piece by piece. The atoms of its essence compiling line after line, upwards and outwards, exploding ...

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A Great Morning

"Big wheels keep on turnin'..." Paul's hands beat on the steering wheel in time with Lynyrd Skynrd as he drove down t...

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This dream was better than waking.

11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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This dream was better than waking. In it, his father took him fishing at Lake Oconee. They spent hours in their boat,...

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The Wedding Dream

This dream was better than waking. I was slim. Looked beautiful in the ivory vintage silk dress Mama had worn herself...

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the dream

The dream was better than waking. I floated, all the past troubles seeming to dissipate before my very eyes. Luke was...

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He was always a weird kid.

1 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Words were labels that he had never paticularly enjoyed. Words were lazy, letting you lapse into not thinking about t...

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5 stories · started about 15 years ago
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I Forgot One Thing

"No parking anytime" read the sign on the tall, black, iron gate. "Well, if I'm going to break the rules, I guess th...

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The House No One Dared To Enter

There once was a house that no child or adult dared enter, the house was known to be haunted. Even though that the ho...

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No Parking Anytime

Joshua parked in front of the iron gate, irritated at this sign, just one of many from his absentee father. He was ne...

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