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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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10 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Perfection

I stare at the row of perfect houses resting on the perfectly manicured lawns beneath a perfectly blue sky by perfect...

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The Ring

I found the ring on the bowling green. Slipped in my back pocket for later as I was in the middle of the tournament. ...

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My balls

Set down the light set it down anywhere The pure clean of a random weeknight on the coach staring at the white ceili...

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14 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Catch Me If You Cam

The young boy ran for his life, the giant monster of a dog chasing after him. The boy didn't do anything wrong, he th...

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You can tell by the sound

Wooshy Wooshy and futuristic Just out of the corner of my eye, that thing I had been running towards, to, seeking It...

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Bees

Running from the swarm of bees, Roger kept his eyes firmly ahead knowing he'd be able to jump into the river, swim un...

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3 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Ready or not, here I come

I walked along the flat stones that made up the busy road and let the bustling crowds swallow me whole. My heart poun...

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Trick of the Light

Walking towards the light, the people wondered if they would be provided clothes or would they have to keep walking i...

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The Climax

Gavin was gloating. "Enjoy your final moments, Kevin ... maybe use them to wonder how I found you. Good-bye ..." He ...

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There was blood on my pillow.

15 stories · started over 15 years ago
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That all wrapped up nicely

"there was blood on my pillow and a noose in my heart" These country singers were getting downright moros, good thou...

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Blood On My Pillow.

There was blood on my pillow. It's 6 a.m. and there is blood on my pillow. I started to try and remember what happene...

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Terror In Their Midst

Whitechapel 1888. There was blood on my pillow again this morning when I awoke. My landlady has already been asking ...

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Hats

8 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Alex

I don't like hats anymore. My friend from camp always wore a hat, and so did I. We would switch hats sometimes, weari...

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Really? Hats?

Never leave the house looking less than your best. It is this way that we show respect for others (paraphrased from T...

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Others and I.

Sometimes I am shocked at the state of America today. The young people just have not respect - no decency at all. The...

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The Moon would never be the same again.

19 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The Moon trouble

As I look into the sky, the moon rises from its slumber showing its beauty in the night sky. The stars sit close to t...

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Metamorphosis

"Looking at things changes us so it is impossible to look at anything the same way twice," said Foley. I did a double...

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The Settlers

The Moon would never be the same again. Not after the Settlers came. See, we had claimed the Moon. Put our USA flag o...

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This dream was better than waking.

11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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This dream was better than waking. In it, his father took him fishing at Lake Oconee. They spent hours in their boat,...

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The Wedding Dream

This dream was better than waking. I was slim. Looked beautiful in the ivory vintage silk dress Mama had worn herself...

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the dream

The dream was better than waking. I floated, all the past troubles seeming to dissipate before my very eyes. Luke was...

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She was the most delicate girl in town.

12 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Blind

She was the most delicate girl in town, so different from all the rest. I look at her and all I can do is smile, she...

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Fooled

She was the most delicate girl in town. Or at least, that's what they all thought. With her prim private school uni...

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The Delicate Chance

The Delicate Chance No one ever dared to push her too hard. She was robbed of all her real potential because everyone...

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11 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Speak When Spoken To

"What the hell happened here?" The man in the blue button up military coat came up to the wreck. He wore a hat on his...

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Memory

I saw the thing. It was preserved in the glass case, the only one of its kind. So faithfully had the curators touched...

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Whoops

"Well shit, that didn't work," the conductor said. He walked around the wreckage, pulling out passengers. Women, mos...

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