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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 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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Coat money

Didn't even stop to look the dude in the eyes before shoving him off the bridge. The coat was fancy, that's all that ...

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Choosing

There was a man who rode on a white horse. He wore a golden cloak. He was handsome and upright in posture. When he pa...

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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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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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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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Friends Past the End

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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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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The results were in.

16 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The results were in...

Marie wiped her sweaty palms on her jeans. Breathing heavily, she glanced impatiently at the bland, hospital door; it...

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The Results

The results were in, she said. And he ran and ran and ran and ran, disregarding the shouts of teachers behind him, ju...

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Winning is Everything

The results were in. The young men standing before the judges fidgeted anxiously in their military-style uniforms. Ja...

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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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£18000.

9 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Big Numbers

He could not even translate it. It was what one might call a specific knowledge, the fact that he did not understand ...

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Conscience

£18,000. That is what the twisted gold wire bracelet was worth to me. Commonly known as a torc. Iron age. It was easy...

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All it would take.

£18000. That's all it would take. But it was more than Charles had, that was certain. He gazed in wonder at that glos...

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