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He set the plate before her.

15 stories · started over 15 years ago
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kidnap

He set the plate before her. She was petrified, the bugs an creepy crawlies moving around on her plate didn't help. S...

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Hunger

He set the plate before her. It was barely covered, a thin, fatty slice of what looked like baloney slapped alongside...

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Mental

The room was dimly lit with the candles he had scattered before she had arrived. The meal would be served in just a ...

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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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Peanut butter is chunky, you're fat.

1 stories · started about 14 years ago
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cheeseball

i was playing with me mate cheeseball the fat slob and all of a sudden he came on my face. Peanut butter is chunky, y...

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19 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Is Anyone There.

She was walking down the sidewalk in the downtown area of Seattle when she noticed a pile of white blankets and other...

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The birds

They would never stop. She used to love the sight of birds on a rooftop, electric wires, even clotheslines. She used...

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Wallside Man

Disappeared into the cityscape, hiding unintentionally, friend to only the birds, for they are the only ones who wi...

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She was the most delicate girl in town.

12 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Blind

She was the most delicate girl in town, so different from all the rest. I look at her and all I can do is smile, she...

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Fooled

She was the most delicate girl in town. Or at least, that's what they all thought. With her prim private school uni...

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The Delicate Chance

The Delicate Chance No one ever dared to push her too hard. She was robbed of all her real potential because everyone...

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7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Last cat alive

They laughed at the little thing as it squirmed The dark water so close but so far away now in their minds The way th...

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This is my cat

I have a cat. Look at my cat. This is my cat. I have a cat. The cat likes it when I hold it. The cat likes to put i...

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Alfie

She held the cat tightly in her arms, relishing in the warmth. It was comforting, strangely comforting, how much she ...

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She cradled the faun's head.

7 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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A long long way to run

Feeling like a fool, alone but still wondering how she looked, how she looked to other people. She should just allow ...

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Bedtime Stories

She cradled the faun's head and he went to sleep. I had read the final line of the bedtime story about a thousand ti...

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13. She cradled the faun's head.

She cradled the faun's head. She listened to its soft breath, listened to its complaint, listened its petition. But...

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Portraits

8 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Life isn't Perfect

My life has always been a mess. First, my parents get into a big fight and are now divorced. Then I had no choice but...

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Portraits

It was his job to paint portraits of people. They'd give him huge sums to paint them. Just look in the mirror, idiots...

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Artist

Whoever said a picture was worth a thousand words had never met Frank. The man had never met a camera he didn't lik...

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Trivia.

16 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Tie-breaker

"the tie-breaker question for 100 points ..." Katy worried at her cuticles. There was a lot riding on this. Too much...

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trivia just trivia, repeated over and over: those same words same facts, same figures traced by countless lips, count...

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Like Deja Vu all over again

Trivia. I only found out when one of my (many) credit cards was refused. Then a debt collection agency letter arrived...

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8 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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We Won

I hid behind the low, green trees. Gunshots scream as the team squatted behind the sandstone houses. 'RUN!' The chief...

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Desert Flower

When I see these flowers, and this man standing here (that's me, by the way), and I see all the men with guns walking...

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Desert Flower

When I see these flowers, and this man standing here (that's me, by the way), and I see all the men with guns walking...

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