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£18000.

9 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Big Numbers

He could not even translate it. It was what one might call a specific knowledge, the fact that he did not understand ...

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Conscience

£18,000. That is what the twisted gold wire bracelet was worth to me. Commonly known as a torc. Iron age. It was easy...

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All it would take.

£18000. That's all it would take. But it was more than Charles had, that was certain. He gazed in wonder at that glos...

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14 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The Payphone

"What's that, Daddy?" James hid a smile behind his hand and answered, "That's a telephone, sweetie. You put money in...

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Meth-talk.

It's ringing. Ringing. Ringing. Ringing. STOP it from ringing! Karla never wanted to hear his voice again. Never wan...

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A dry, sandy summer like this one. I had met him just a mile down, by the Shell gas station, his cowboy boots kicking...

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8 stories · started over 15 years ago
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A Leap of Faith

They walked hand-in-hand over the foot bridge, surrounded by tourists. "This reminds me of the Great Wall of China,...

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The Wall

The wall is the place most people choose on their own. You come for a day or a week and it's never to see the sights....

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The Wall

The wall is the place most people choose on their own. You come for a day or a week and it's never to see the sights....

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8 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Bug dead

Once upon a time there was a bug who wanted to live on my finger. I called the little fella over and asked him to sta...

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The swarm

It was a swarm. They were trying to get in. Surrounding the house. I was running frantically throughout the house, ma...

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The Flying Bug

He didn't know what to say. No one did. It had never landed on anyone's finger before. The fabled winged bug, unlike ...

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5 stories · started about 15 years ago
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I Forgot One Thing

"No parking anytime" read the sign on the tall, black, iron gate. "Well, if I'm going to break the rules, I guess th...

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The House No One Dared To Enter

There once was a house that no child or adult dared enter, the house was known to be haunted. Even though that the ho...

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No Parking Anytime

Joshua parked in front of the iron gate, irritated at this sign, just one of many from his absentee father. He was ne...

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Travel light, but take everything with you.

19 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Light travel

I look at the glistening gold clock hung onto the station wall. Time is ticking. So slowly I feel that time has froze...

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The Opportunity

This note. This one note. This small little ticket of joy, was my way out of here. Out of this dump. Where flies cons...

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Perhaps

"Travel light, but take everything with you," he said, his sky eyes looking off into the distance, "you never know wh...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Gene · Heather · Guilt

10 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The first one

She was looking ahead, eyes parallel with the ground. She was looking ahead, eyes perpendicular with the ground. Pa...

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Not SO done

In her rear-view mirror, she saw Gene turn. He looked at the bush, at her, at the bush again, and then felt his pocke...

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Done with him

Heather didn't like being out in the rain. She was going to get even with that bastard Gene - how dare he dump her in...

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11 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Plugged in

The implant's biggest drawbacks were the headaches. The gear-man had assured her that would abate in time, but meanwh...

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Take Out

Geraldine, I'm serious give me that back, I don't have time for this... Because it's mine. Give it back now. It's rin...

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The Pirate

Johnny, my boyfriend was aptly named. Laura, my dad's girlfriend called him 'The Pirate' because of his long dark cu...

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First line

The dapper man picked up a penny.

19 stories · started about 15 years ago
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omeon

A dapper man picked up a penny. He tossed it the air, but it fell. He never caught it. A spankled girl kicked up her ...

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The Teleporter, Part 8

The woman watched Martin run into the snow. She could see him for couple of meters, but the lost him in the snow. Thr...

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Too Many Nights End This Way

The stories rarely stop when the party does. He was not tall, or lean, but he was fashionable. He had the bushiest ...

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13 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Heartbeat

Beatirix shuddered as a cold wind whipped across the stage, and she clasped her hat tightly to her head. Stage fright...

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The Teleporter, Part 2

"Hello?" There was nothing on the other end of the line but silence. "Hey, can you here me? Is anyone there?" Martin ...

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the dress

me and my sister have always been fighting. scince the day we could walk we always fought untill now. we were walking...

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