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The gate closed behind them.

21 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Orphange

I stood on the old wooden bed I always slept in. There was always a window up high and I would always look up to it a...

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Three Chance, Two Donors, One Hope

Three Chances. Two Donors. One Hope. December 4th. Today is the third anniversary of your first bone marrow transp...

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Fame

Rudolph ran as fast as his four legs would carry him. He had run out of fairy dust over a remote forest, and unfortun...

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Green.

10 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Green

Green cover holds me. Oak Tree stands guard behind me. Sun warms me. Stream sings me to sleep. Sleep meets with Dream...

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Vihreä

Her eyes were green. No, not just green. Emeralds, yet infinitely more precious. Like the sea, though far more deep a...

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Running Away

Green. Indubitably so. A vast expanse if it, spreading out to the horizon. Different shades breaking it up into secti...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Pirate with a Wooden Leg · Woodpecker · Float to Shore

4 stories · started almost 17 years ago
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The storm had blown over, but not before it had blown over his ship, along with all of his crew. The captain always w...

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The Pecker

So close, yet so far. Matey the Pirate never understood the phrase until these last few days of his life. The woodp...

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Mirage

The waves were bigger than she'd ever seen before. They were not waves tonight. They were destructive bombs, pulveriz...

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9 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Four Families' Hero

Mary wandered through Arlington National Cemetery. She was looking for her grandfather's tombstone. In a sea of perfe...

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I am different. I know it. They know it. They being society. In our society, we are to dress the same, act the same, ...

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Faith full

From the edge of a hole in the ground, lying on his side in a pool of his own blood, Jim looked around for his arm. ...

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Sal · Runaway Train · Propose

8 stories · started over 16 years ago
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Runaway

Sal knew his time was running out, a runaway train heading straight for him but he had nowhere else to go. "So... wi...

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The Many Fatal Loves of Sal

Sal was in love. A part of her felt that she'd always been in love, and almost each time with a different man. But t...

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If at First You Don't Succeed

Sal knew it was too late the minute the whistle blew. That train had been keeping time in Millersville for twenty yea...

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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 16 years ago
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Time Zones

A Time to grow And a Time to grow old A Time to learn And a Time to teach A Time to receive And a Time to give A Time...

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Everyone Wants to be Bogart

"Carry the wreath, Henry, your mother is waiting." Father's terse words spoken from the side of his mouth, muffled b...

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Sweaty Head

The sun this morning grows short thick shadows from the cobblestones. A sweaty head against the curb, red hatching at...

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Lola.

16 stories · started about 15 years ago
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The Old Library

Prompt: Lola “Who’s for another?” it came out as one word. Jack knew it and hid the knowledge with busy bustle. He...

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Lola

The moment she walked into the room, I knew I was in for a wild time. Dressed to the nines, head to toe in the most w...

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Lola

Lola, she was a dancer... something about flowers in her hair or was it her underwear? He couldn't actually remember ...

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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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They were trapped for seven days.

12 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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They were trapped for seven days. Faced with a myriad of uncertainties, this much Antonius knew to be true. The pangs...

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Aleena's Choice

They were trapped for seven days. Aleena tried to hold back the tears as it had been seven days since she had seen th...

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Trapped

They were trapped for seven days. And all he could think about was how stupid and incompetent everyone was. Oh, he c...

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