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17 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Thank God the image was blurred thought Johnston looking over his daughter's shoulder. She had accidentally found his...

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I stepped into the bathroom, which was green. There was a tape player and it was playing Chinese gongs. There was a s...

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Up

Harold finally decided to turn his life around while he was standing in front of the elevator. Even though his meet...

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4 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Alone

It was a gloomy day in the middle of no where all i could see was piles upon piles of hay, it felt late and i ont kno...

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Deal

The fields were parched. There was no water. Where was the rain, she wondered as she stared across the cracked land...

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I'll Miss Him

I'll miss the way the breeze would blow hair into his eyes, and the way I would brush it away, asking him when he was...

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The city was empty.

13 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The Final Girl

The city was empty, like the set of a sci-fi movie when the aliens have chased everyone away or a nuclear explosion h...

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Empty

I sat on the bench in the park. Breathed in the air. Smelled the ash and dust. It was quiet here, beneath the shade ...

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In the Shadows

I've been following Soulscum for a while now. I don't know what he wants. I don't know why he's here. All I know i...

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5 stories · started about 16 years ago
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The Mailbox

The mail box never had anything I wanted so I went onto the next home. Usually I picked up a few interesting pieces f...

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Third Snow

We sat on our toboggan at the top of the hill behind the house. It wasn't much of a sliding hill, but it was easy to ...

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The Kingdom of Heaven

We made a little church of our own when we promised to marry. You asked me when I barely understood how to love you, ...

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The conversation lasted two words:

27 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The conversation lasted two words: "Too much." Too much pain? Too much regret? Too much suffering. And who's? From tw...

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"Go"

I am trying to make up words as I tremble in Fear. I can feel the first drop of sweat starting to run down my face. H...

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Till death do us part

"I'm sorry", the two words that shattered her world. She let the dial tone ring out, as a hot tear ran down her cheek...

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Kenya.

7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Kenya

The heart beating, dazzling country Kenya is the home of millions of people all formed into one loving family. To som...

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Start Over

It was a random trip, picked quite literally with a dart to a map. Jon would be going to Kenya. He'd never been outsi...

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Seeing Double

Kenya was the name of my doppelganger. I thought it a strange name, thought he might call himself Jim or John, both m...

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6 stories · started almost 15 years ago
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The Storm

I'm trapped. I came to the beach, ready to relax. Ready to escape my work, and every annoying person in my life. But ...

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Shoreline

"Come here," I whisper loud enough for her to hear me. She gives me a look and laughs, tilting her head up to the sky...

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A Little Risk

That damn tree was going to fall on him, he just knew it. What use was the open sky, the billowing waves of blue, or...

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It was the fall that surprised me most.

28 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Memories of Fall

After the murder I found it hard to recall what happened in my personal life but only remembered other things. The a...

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It was the fall that surprised me most. I watched as the sofa slid down the stairs of the women's dorm, I rushed down...

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Grandad's Body

It was a surpise to discover that grandad's home disappeared down the sink hole. The ground literally swallowed him u...

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1943.

9 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Jellyfish Pop

The air raid sirens were going off. I could tell. Even from the thousands of feet above, I could hear the wailing of ...

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The Cold Fish

1943. The year of my birth. To a very young mother. Raped by a stranger. I spent forty years believing that Tom Morra...

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Late, as in flight

1943 (19:43 to be exact, but the : had given up life years ago) 30 oC 1943 29 oC 1944 The red LEDs blinked thei...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Writer · Americans · Hemingway

5 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Ink

Sitting at a desk with pen in hand. "It's us against the world." "Watch out, America." The circle of faces tight...

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Traitor

I was an optimist. I thought that I, like Hemingway, could weave my influence between countries, live in the welcomin...

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Dying in the rain

He couldn't see through the rain. The rain covered everything in sight, like a thick veil of mosquito netting had bee...

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