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They crouched to peer beneath the stairs.

14 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, the grime and dirt on the old hardwood floor unsettling beneath their feet....

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Stairs

They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, their eyes reflecting the light like stars in the darkness. Not that anyone...

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Winchester

There was only a sliver of space between the floorboards and the door under the stairs. It wasn't even really a door....

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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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Hero · Villain · Goal

An intuitive, perceptive girl with an eye for detail · Someone who knows something about her that she doesn't · Find out what he knows, and make sense of it

9 stories · started over 15 years ago
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I Know

She turns around, but he has vanished again. She weighs the pros and cons of speaking before opening her mouth. "I ca...

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In A Car

"So you're saying you didn't see Willie Mason leaving the store Friday night?" PI Dot Post eyed the man sitting in he...

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It's all good.

I'm fine No really. Really really! I'm not being aggressive. NO, I'm NOT! I am NOT shouting. I'm perfectly Ok...

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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

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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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 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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Hero · Villain · Goal

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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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 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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