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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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They crouched to peer beneath the stairs.

14 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, the grime and dirt on the old hardwood floor unsettling beneath their feet....

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Stairs

They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, their eyes reflecting the light like stars in the darkness. Not that anyone...

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Winchester

There was only a sliver of space between the floorboards and the door under the stairs. It wasn't even really a door....

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Kenya.

7 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Kenya

The heart beating, dazzling country Kenya is the home of millions of people all formed into one loving family. To som...

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Start Over

It was a random trip, picked quite literally with a dart to a map. Jon would be going to Kenya. He'd never been outsi...

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Seeing Double

Kenya was the name of my doppelganger. I thought it a strange name, thought he might call himself Jim or John, both m...

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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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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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£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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It was the fall that surprised me most.

28 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Memories of Fall

After the murder I found it hard to recall what happened in my personal life but only remembered other things. The a...

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It was the fall that surprised me most. I watched as the sofa slid down the stairs of the women's dorm, I rushed down...

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Grandad's Body

It was a surpise to discover that grandad's home disappeared down the sink hole. The ground literally swallowed him u...

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4 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Freedom or Security

Half naked and desperate, the child climbed the thin bars of the door, her cage, staring at the world outside. Her ri...

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futureproof

It was difficult getting to people to understand that actually you wanted to be in the cage. That the cage was the sa...

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The Simple Things

The first few days she hadn't noticed the bars. She'd noticed very little about her surroundings other than that they...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Writer · Americans · Hemingway

5 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Ink

Sitting at a desk with pen in hand. "It's us against the world." "Watch out, America." The circle of faces tight...

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Traitor

I was an optimist. I thought that I, like Hemingway, could weave my influence between countries, live in the welcomin...

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Dying in the rain

He couldn't see through the rain. The rain covered everything in sight, like a thick veil of mosquito netting had bee...

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3 stories · started about 15 years ago
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nostalgia

You know this comforting feeling of nostalgia? It always catches me up, when I look at old pictures, just like this. ...

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Old and New Again

"I hope we never grow up," Kate said. "We will," answered Petra, "But we don't need to grow old." The memories of th...

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Photo Bullet

An old sepia photo can be a bullet. It can tear through the lineup of neurons, neatly lined up like socks on a bed. I...

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