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Lola.

16 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The Old Library

Prompt: Lola “Who’s for another?” it came out as one word. Jack knew it and hid the knowledge with busy bustle. He...

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Lola

The moment she walked into the room, I knew I was in for a wild time. Dressed to the nines, head to toe in the most w...

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Lola

Lola, she was a dancer... something about flowers in her hair or was it her underwear? He couldn't actually remember ...

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Spinning.

16 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Spinning

Spinning. Spinning. Spinning. That is all she knows now. "You'll become dizzy soon," he whispers in her ear. She smi...

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The Telltale

Four minutes away from the burn point, one of the telltales switched from green to red. Tears streamed from my eyes, ...

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Chasing Freedom

The room kept spinning for the delicate human. You could tell by the way it swayed in its place on the floor beneath ...

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The results were in.

16 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The results were in...

Marie wiped her sweaty palms on her jeans. Breathing heavily, she glanced impatiently at the bland, hospital door; it...

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The Results

The results were in, she said. And he ran and ran and ran and ran, disregarding the shouts of teachers behind him, ju...

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Winning is Everything

The results were in. The young men standing before the judges fidgeted anxiously in their military-style uniforms. Ja...

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17 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Images

Thank God the image was blurred thought Johnston looking over his daughter's shoulder. She had accidentally found his...

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I stepped into the bathroom, which was green. There was a tape player and it was playing Chinese gongs. There was a s...

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Up

Harold finally decided to turn his life around while he was standing in front of the elevator. Even though his meet...

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4 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Alone

It was a gloomy day in the middle of no where all i could see was piles upon piles of hay, it felt late and i ont kno...

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Deal

The fields were parched. There was no water. Where was the rain, she wondered as she stared across the cracked land...

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I'll Miss Him

I'll miss the way the breeze would blow hair into his eyes, and the way I would brush it away, asking him when he was...

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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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The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower coolly.

7 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Creamsicle Tower

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower coolly. Lord Howard stood behind him, rigid, hands neatly behind his ba...

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Child-like glee

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower smoothly. "Good good," he said in his nasally voice. Rubbing his hands to...

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Humbled and Literal

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower cooly. "Were my instructions not clear," he asked in the calm manner so ...

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The city was empty.

13 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The Final Girl

The city was empty, like the set of a sci-fi movie when the aliens have chased everyone away or a nuclear explosion h...

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Empty

I sat on the bench in the park. Breathed in the air. Smelled the ash and dust. It was quiet here, beneath the shade ...

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In the Shadows

I've been following Soulscum for a while now. I don't know what he wants. I don't know why he's here. All I know i...

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Green.

10 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Green

Green cover holds me. Oak Tree stands guard behind me. Sun warms me. Stream sings me to sleep. Sleep meets with Dream...

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Vihreä

Her eyes were green. No, not just green. Emeralds, yet infinitely more precious. Like the sea, though far more deep a...

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Running Away

Green. Indubitably so. A vast expanse if it, spreading out to the horizon. Different shades breaking it up into secti...

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6 stories · started almost 15 years ago
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The Storm

I'm trapped. I came to the beach, ready to relax. Ready to escape my work, and every annoying person in my life. But ...

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Shoreline

"Come here," I whisper loud enough for her to hear me. She gives me a look and laughs, tilting her head up to the sky...

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A Little Risk

That damn tree was going to fall on him, he just knew it. What use was the open sky, the billowing waves of blue, or...

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