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Potatoes.

20 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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911

"Following up from the fight we had last night Darren" "I don't wanna talk about it Judy" I can see the fear in Darre...

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Potatoes Were My Last Resort

I spent days in the field, hoping to see something bloom. The desert surrounded me like the ocean that surrounds an i...

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potatoes

I got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, lamb, ham, hogs, dogs, beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, chicken, turkey, r...

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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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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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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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Giving in wasn't an option.

12 stories · started about 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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Taste.

12 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Overcompensation

In the beginning, he tasted like rainwater: salty. Dried sweat around the rim of his mouth, a taste that clung to his...

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Overcompensation

In the beginning, he tasted like rainwater: salty. Dried sweat around the rim of his mouth, a taste that clung to his...

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Flavors.

I can taste the tingle on my tongue the second it touches. I can smell the sweet/sour, crisp, smell. The food is amaz...

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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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7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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mexico

are in me

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The Teleporter, Part 3

Two men entered, wearing respiratory masks. They came over to the register and looked at Martin, who just looked back...

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Forensics

Officer Malone stopped at the doorway of the house. "Do you smell that?" she asked. The rest of the team paused as ...

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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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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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