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Spinning.

16 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Spinning

Spinning. Spinning. Spinning. That is all she knows now. "You'll become dizzy soon," he whispers in her ear. She smi...

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The Telltale

Four minutes away from the burn point, one of the telltales switched from green to red. Tears streamed from my eyes, ...

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Chasing Freedom

The room kept spinning for the delicate human. You could tell by the way it swayed in its place on the floor beneath ...

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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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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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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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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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1943.

9 stories · started over 15 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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Lola.

16 stories · started over 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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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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The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower coolly.

7 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Creamsicle Tower

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower coolly. Lord Howard stood behind him, rigid, hands neatly behind his ba...

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Child-like glee

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower smoothly. "Good good," he said in his nasally voice. Rubbing his hands to...

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Humbled and Literal

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower cooly. "Were my instructions not clear," he asked in the calm manner so ...

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