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The Mailbox

The mail box never had anything I wanted so I went onto the next home. Usually I picked up a few interesting pieces f...

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Third Snow

We sat on our toboggan at the top of the hill behind the house. It wasn't much of a sliding hill, but it was easy to ...

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The Kingdom of Heaven

We made a little church of our own when we promised to marry. You asked me when I barely understood how to love you, ...

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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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1943.

9 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Jellyfish Pop

The air raid sirens were going off. I could tell. Even from the thousands of feet above, I could hear the wailing of ...

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The Cold Fish

1943. The year of my birth. To a very young mother. Raped by a stranger. I spent forty years believing that Tom Morra...

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Late, as in flight

1943 (19:43 to be exact, but the : had given up life years ago) 30 oC 1943 29 oC 1944 The red LEDs blinked thei...

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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.

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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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Kenya.

7 stories · started over 15 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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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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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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Friends Past the End

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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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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The gate closed behind them.

21 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Orphange

I stood on the old wooden bed I always slept in. There was always a window up high and I would always look up to it a...

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Three Chance, Two Donors, One Hope

Three Chances. Two Donors. One Hope. December 4th. Today is the third anniversary of your first bone marrow transp...

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Fame

Rudolph ran as fast as his four legs would carry him. He had run out of fairy dust over a remote forest, and unfortun...

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