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My feet ached, but it was well worth it.

12 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Shrimpy

In the scheme of things, it wasn't a permanent state I was after. Just long enough to get on stage, dance for two min...

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Run.

My hands and feet ache, but it was well worth it. We are nearly there, a couple more hours. Georgie is starving and I...

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Journey with a Cause

My feet ached, but it was well worth it. This is what I said when I completed that trek. The endless days and nights,...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Violinist · Cat · Desert Island Concert

6 stories · started almost 17 years ago
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daytime dream

about 6 years ago, at the time I firstly thought about study in UK. So I prepare the ielts in Shanghai. When I finish...

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Letter from a Desert Island

He opened the letter from his cousin, reluctantly breaking open the blue air-mail envelope. Who uses old-fashioned sn...

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Walking and Thinking

The rain pounded on his jacket and head like furious warriors attempting to break the city's gates. His paced quick...

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6 stories · started about 16 years ago
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A Modest Birthday

The kids huddled around the tiny bundt cake, sipping juice from their plastic cups. A lone candle burned at the cen...

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Birthday bunker

We have been in the bunker for weeks now sharing a room with me and my five brothers. Its hard to imagine our life be...

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these last little fires

If I were a scientist I would invent a drug, which could bring me back to all of the feelings I was able to experienc...

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Absent.

11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Absent

Absent. The perfect word to describe the situation. Paul and Maria Strickland sat at their kitchen table eating brea...

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Absent

The episodes were getting more frequent. I'd forget where I was. Friends looking at me strangely as I carried on conv...

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Absent Professor

He was absent. Again. The kid would only show up on test days - on which he performed well enough. But that wasn't th...

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I jumped.

21 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Jump

The wind whistled around me, caressing me like i was its lover. Its icy touch leaving trails of fire all over my skin...

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The Fake Suicide

i jumped off the bridge and hit the water. OK, so i didn't judge the height of the bridge or he depth of the water, b...

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Open

You could use a little direction, said Junie to Sam. They were sitting cross-legged in the wood chips on the playgr...

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Swing.

16 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The death swing

My mind was moving faster than my body. I wanted to play in the swing so bad but my feet weren't moving fast enough. ...

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Missing

I let out a heavy sigh as I stepped over the cobwebs, allowing myself to have a moment of preparation. The swing rock...

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grievously unavoidable

she couldn't do it. her moist, clammy hands clung to the wooden pole with vicious might as she drew in intermittent, ...

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Outnumbered.

7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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outnumbered

by the time the cops can, I sneaked into an alleyway to avoid the cops but as soon as I ran around the corner of a ra...

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Outnumbered

Outnumbered. Jezebel stands on the ledge, hands fluttering up and down the slick chains. Outnumbered. She tries to br...

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They were outnumbered and they knew it. J'nox lifted his six-shooter as he and his comrades prepared to defend the he...

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3 stories · started over 14 years ago
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No Value

What happens when life finally becomes too much to bear? He thought about it a great deal - but was unable to put his...

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Boogie

Erring on the side of caution I took two of the smaller ones. Just like breakfast, or a night on the town. My body wa...

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Breaking Glass Wrist

There was a girl that I used to work with at the Goodwill who had eyes that were far too close together. Her body was...

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8 stories · started over 15 years ago
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God's Words

She slept in the open air, in the windy hills, on a soft pillow. She was covered in the blankets of her mother's mot...

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And We Depart

Finally, we came to rest. The day's work had been long but fruitful. We had made double the monies we would have on...

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My heart was in Ohio.

My eyes were tired; I rolled over in my bed, and stared briefly at the moon. I turned back to face my fan; the 90-de...

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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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