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1943.

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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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Freedom or Security

Half naked and desperate, the child climbed the thin bars of the door, her cage, staring at the world outside. Her ri...

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futureproof

It was difficult getting to people to understand that actually you wanted to be in the cage. That the cage was the sa...

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The Simple Things

The first few days she hadn't noticed the bars. She'd noticed very little about her surroundings other than that they...

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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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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 Newcomers

The alien craft exploded invisible to the human eye. The inhabitants had exited over an hour ago, running amazingly f...

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Red Squall

He smoked pipes, ate limes, ate the gnats he swiped from the air. The lions lounged in the front yard. He chose lions...

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On the fourth day of the invasion, the defenders opened the gates of the zoo. Let those bastards contend with lions ...

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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

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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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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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First line

The conversation lasted two words:

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The conversation lasted two words: "Too much." Too much pain? Too much regret? Too much suffering. And who's? From tw...

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"Go"

I am trying to make up words as I tremble in Fear. I can feel the first drop of sweat starting to run down my face. H...

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Till death do us part

"I'm sorry", the two words that shattered her world. She let the dial tone ring out, as a hot tear ran down her cheek...

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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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Sal · Runaway Train · Propose

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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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