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It's Over

by emma_kerry – 26 days ago

he ran into the room, his heart pounding, and his clothes soaking wet. He couldn't believe what had happened. Today had started off so well, everything going to plan.
He had woken early, before his alarm, excited as a kid at Christmas. He'd gone to work,...   [Read more...]

The Dance floor of life and death

by b23cml – 8 days ago

Swing with me friend. Come on to the cosmic dance floor of life and death, and dance. There are things there that can only be seen on the dance floor. The things you'll see there are both magical and yet still very plain once you ge...   [Read more...]

Annie

by Emma Bot – 29 days ago

.that's when my life changed forever. Not only did i just shit myself, i was staring at the body og my bestfriend through the window of my car and she was dead. DEAD!!! what am i gonna tell her parents? Oh god, what am i gonna tell my Grandma? She'll be devasta...   [Read more...]

Everyone Wants to be Bogart

by CraigTowsley – 28 days ago

"Carry the wreath, Henry, your mother is waiting."

Father's terse words spoken from the side of his mouth, muffled by his coat's collar and the stub of a cigarette in the corner of his mouth. He fancied himself a small-town Bo...   [Read more...]

The Trickery of Emotions

by Jayden Nicole – 11 days ago

Emotions are tricky things. They are the things that fill us with that warm, semtimental feeling that we get in our chest while our hearts are busy taking picture so as never to forget the beauty of a moment. That emotion we might call love. ...   [Read more...]

Opening Sentences are Important

by CraigTowsley – 18 days ago

"His eyes closed with a sinnister grin?" Rabbit said. "What does that even mean? His eyes were grinning? Or the grinning caused his eyes to close? I don't get it. The imagery just doesn't pop and imagery needs to pop, or...   [Read more...]

Restful Sleep

by reflect. – 23 days ago

As the Sun rose from His slumber,
She began to stir
in her little house of wood,
a coffin just for her.

Each day,
she hears them scrape
away the earth with shovels,
waiting until
finally
her final bed is done
forever for her to lay.

...   [Read more...]

Get In, Get Out

by kayemnic – 24 days ago

The day after tomorrow, this will all be over. He stood, still in body if not in mind. The wind that brushed past him seemed to pause, as if considering this new obstacle, before gathering the leaves that hunched against the curb and whirling them off ...   [Read more...]

Somewhere in this Mess

by CraigTowsley – 12 days ago

her bedroom wall was a collage of every valentine's day card, folded secret note, doodles, drawings, things her friends had written before their father's got a job in another city and moved. Streamers, deflated balloons, pressed leaves, plastic...   [Read more...]