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I held it at arm's length.

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It’s all relative

I held it at arms length. A scruffy business card in battered Russian. Something like “путешествие во времени” (“pute...

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Birthday Present

I held it at arm's length. Three feet long from blade to hilt it, the replica Confederate cavalry sword is beautiful....

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Mission Possible

I held it at arm's length, pressing the butt of the gun into my shoulder. It was heavy and my muscles screamed and bu...

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Nostalgia

Nostalgia. Oh, how I love the feeling. Staring across the dim room at my parent's house is where it began. Noticing...

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Missing Without A Trace

0900 hrs. Scott was seen leaving his fiance's home by a neighbour who looked up as he slammed the door hard and swore...

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The following is excerpted from IrishAbroad circa 2000: Flashback .Sunday morning 11am...Woke up to the sound of me o...

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The audience stared open mouthed at me.

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The golden sea

Never before had he entered this room. The dream of the golden sea was clearer in his mind than ever before. There wa...

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Mr

i start my journey very hard from 2010 when i come to London i done my level-4 diploma i give my three papers out of ...

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School Story

I couldn't believe what I had just done. I ran outside the school, my breath coming out in raspy gulps. There was not...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Marchiel · Francis · Black Rose

6 stories · started over 16 years ago
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The Boy

Sienna and Kate were best friends. They did everything together, they were like sisters. One day they were in Techn...

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The Black Rose

Marchiel stared into Francis's twisted visage. The black rose stood just behind the broken man and Marchiel wanted h...

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B role

Marchiel? is that a boy's name Dunno, it is French I think French, right so we are looking for a possibly French p...

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The Sound in the Woods

Silence was all they heard. Deep in the woods Finn and Alana watched the moon. They both sat there in a peaceful sile...

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The fairy and the moon

The moon was up and bright, I would hear the trees sing to it's glory and sight. I always wanted to go to the moon, a...

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Cursed

The embroidery was hard to steal. Laser beams criss crossing the museum walls and floors. Two hours later I was openi...

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Fault.

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Blame

It wasn't my fault. It couldn't have been. She was dead when I got there. I know my fingerprints were on the gun. It...

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Fault Equals Anger

"This is your fault," his wife said to him. If you would just put your mother in her place I wouldn't have to and we ...

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My Middle Name

Fault. Such a familiar word. Im not sure what it means and what it looks like but i can feel it. I feel it for a lo...

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The sound reverberated through the streets.

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Streets

The sound reverberated through the streets. I dropped to my knees, the metal in the synth-leg clanging against the me...

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Father and Son

I came down the stairs after I heard the rumbling in the streets. Something shook my potted plant, the one my grandmo...

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The mob held torches like flags, upright and proud, ready for battle with the onion factory. Sons, mothers, daughters...

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Waves.

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The Helper

She laid there for an hour before moving. The waves had brought her here, and deigned not to take her away again. She...

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Uncanny Nostalgia

Waves. Thats all I saw. Waves, waves, waves. Just little curves in the ocean, that broke down and collapsed into them...

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Waves.

The water crashes onto our feet. His hand lets go of mine as he turns away from me. He tells me he can't let me do th...

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I lost my grip on the wheel.

9 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Ice

It was late, one winter night. I was not accustomed to being awake at this hour. My car didn't handle the cold well, ...

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Losing my grip

I lost my grip on the wheel. It had happened before, but it wasn't nearly as embarrassing as now. I had just left P.E...

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Driving along a road at night, rain pelting down, tall trees waving low branches across the sky, no moon, no road lig...

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dd

Ring, ring! Ring, ring!' "Hello, this is General Kuznetz", I stated. "Yes, I understand". "There has been a change ...

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Sealife

The dress blue uniforms were itchy. They were tired and hot and couldn't wait for the ceremony to be over. The captai...

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Actions speak louder.

Well would you believe it? There I was sat on my couch balancing a plate of egg and chips on my knee when his face fl...

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