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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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The results were in.

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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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predator

The earthy smell of autumn leaves surrounded me and stimulated my senses. The crisp crunch of leaves was projected th...

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The red dawn lies

Some mornings, when the sun rose just right, it was almost like nothing had happened. This was one of those mornings...

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Wind Wind Wind

She ran off into the plants and tall grasses and let her body sway with the wind. She called it her meditation, the o...

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I jumped.

21 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Jump

The wind whistled around me, caressing me like i was its lover. Its icy touch leaving trails of fire all over my skin...

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The Fake Suicide

i jumped off the bridge and hit the water. OK, so i didn't judge the height of the bridge or he depth of the water, b...

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Open

You could use a little direction, said Junie to Sam. They were sitting cross-legged in the wood chips on the playgr...

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Lost at night

"HELP" "There's no hope," the monotone sound of Sarah's voice echoing throughout the silent forest. I could not see ...

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Hear Me Crow

the birds on the telephone line have heard me talking the birds on the power line have felt me typing one bird two bi...

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Silver Lining

The raven sat and contemplated the traveler beneath the moon's harsh gaze. She struggled onwards, leaning heavily on ...

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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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Travel light, but take everything with you.

19 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Light travel

I look at the glistening gold clock hung onto the station wall. Time is ticking. So slowly I feel that time has froze...

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The Opportunity

This note. This one note. This small little ticket of joy, was my way out of here. Out of this dump. Where flies cons...

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Perhaps

"Travel light, but take everything with you," he said, his sky eyes looking off into the distance, "you never know wh...

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Confused

Confusion. That's what I am currently experiencing. I used to believe that I was a self-assured and secure person, bu...

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The First Date

Sex wasn't always the first thing on Mandy's mind but it was today. The long zip at the front of the dress was perfec...

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I laugh because I am

We are made of fluff and light. We are made for a continuing struggle to come together in our floating. When I fell...

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He exited the train at Buenos Aires.

10 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Alone

He walked into a blizzard. The wind had a life of its own, throwing the shards of snow like throwing knifes into his ...

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Bloood

He exited the train at buenos aires the sunlight hit his pale skin. The woman were all together in a group conversati...

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Travel

He exited the train at Buenos Aires. That was as far as his ticket would take him. He wandered around the city for a ...

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The children were not at school.

10 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Groen

Aangekomen op het kruispunt keek ik naar rechts. En naar links. Links lag mijn bestemming. Een dag vol kennis en te...

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Children Will Be Children

The children were not at school. They had better, bolder, brighter things to be doing. The teachers didn't notice. Th...

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A phone call to P Refkin

The children were not at school. They were in the phone booth. Both of them - Kit and Lemuel. They just couldn't keep...

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