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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Lost, without a hand to hold.

20 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Lost without him

My father had died.I was lost without any one to hold my hand.I was left alone. With no family.My hand just banged ag...

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Looking Back

It was such a long time ago. Such a very long time ago. Yet for some reason she had still believed she would know t...

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Lost

When I lost my mother in the store, I was only three years old. I can't remember what happened but I still wake up in...

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Giving in wasn't an option.

11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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My Fantasy

I am looking out the window of my tiny house in Michigan and watching the snow pile up on the road. I won't be going ...

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Reinforcement

Giving in wasn't an option. The first time Ted died he didn't really notice, being in a full on berserk. One of his i...

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Appearances

Giving in wasn't an option, but there was little else she could do. "Ok, ok," she told the young galant with the sh...

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Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway.

123 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The girl in the red gown

Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway. It was snowing, freezing her slowly. She continued...

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Red Gown

Rain poured down, next to her, the doorway shielding her. She clutched her red gown as she huddled down close to the ...

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Liun

Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway. It was raining, her hair was plastered to her fac...

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18 stories · started about 16 years ago
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sea

Drowning in the sea. That was the trick of it. To be seen to swoon, to fall to the bottom. The pretend to expire. It ...

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sea

Drowning in the sea. That was the trick of it. To be seen to swoon, to fall to the bottom. The pretend to expire. It ...

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Tide

Marjorie was drowning. She felt the pull of the water on her legs and the icy shock in her heart. She hadn't even fe...

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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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10 stories · started over 15 years ago
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predator

The earthy smell of autumn leaves surrounded me and stimulated my senses. The crisp crunch of leaves was projected th...

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Some mornings, when the sun rose just right, it was almost like nothing had happened. This was one of those mornings...

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Wind Wind Wind

She ran off into the plants and tall grasses and let her body sway with the wind. She called it her meditation, the o...

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6 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Remembering November.

The building I lived in was old, rusty around the doorknobs, the 14th floor was still half under construction. The we...

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This Building in Reverse

My word muscles are stiff. My writing bones ache. The prose reads like a bruise. I burst bored air through my lips, ...

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Laying Siege

I lay siege to it. This was war and a fast and furious assault seemed the surest course. There was a front to push fo...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Sister · Boyfriend · Orchestrate the split

6 stories · started almost 17 years ago
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The Stench of Hair

"You know why girls suddenly change their hairstyles don't you?" He leered over my sister with that gap-toothed smug-...

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Too Young for Love

There was a little girl who loved a boy. It was her first time with a crush on a boy. It was her first time with love...

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Mistaken Intentions

The first time I saw Tommy, I knew he was a total douche. I don't allow my sister to date douches; shit — no brother ...

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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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