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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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10 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Tigers

The tigers snarled at each other as they fought over the prize. Eyes narrowed, they watched for the slightest hesitat...

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Enemies

They were the best of friends, but the worst of enemies. My husband and his brother would become like tigers fighting...

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Territorial Dominance

He watched from a distance, hidden behind a bush. The two tigers snarled at each other, circling around, judging each...

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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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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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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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2 stories · started about 15 years ago
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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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3 stories · started about 15 years ago
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nostalgia

You know this comforting feeling of nostalgia? It always catches me up, when I look at old pictures, just like this. ...

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Old and New Again

"I hope we never grow up," Kate said. "We will," answered Petra, "But we don't need to grow old." The memories of th...

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Photo Bullet

An old sepia photo can be a bullet. It can tear through the lineup of neurons, neatly lined up like socks on a bed. I...

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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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5 stories · started almost 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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17 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Images

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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