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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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He panicked as he looked down. He couldn't believe what he was looking at.

2 stories · started about 13 years ago
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Home alone .

I was home alone but i hear in the distance footsteps. The footsteps get louder every time I get farther. I was going...

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Home alone

I was home alone but i hear in the distance footsteps. The footsteps get louder every time I get farther. I was going...

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Lola.

16 stories · started about 15 years ago
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The Old Library

Prompt: Lola “Who’s for another?” it came out as one word. Jack knew it and hid the knowledge with busy bustle. He...

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Lola

The moment she walked into the room, I knew I was in for a wild time. Dressed to the nines, head to toe in the most w...

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Lola

Lola, she was a dancer... something about flowers in her hair or was it her underwear? He couldn't actually remember ...

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1 stories · started about 13 years ago
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Spellbound

Balanced on the line, he told her again, "Put it down!" "Come on, then," she said, impishly. "I can't. You know I ...

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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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Hero · Villain · Goal

· · A devastating ending

1 stories · started about 15 years ago
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runs good

I was my own villain my own devastating ending The back of the car has not been cleaned very well, candy wrappers, a...

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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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Hero · Villain · Goal

Gene · Heather · Guilt

10 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The first one

She was looking ahead, eyes parallel with the ground. She was looking ahead, eyes perpendicular with the ground. Pa...

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Not SO done

In her rear-view mirror, she saw Gene turn. He looked at the bush, at her, at the bush again, and then felt his pocke...

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Done with him

Heather didn't like being out in the rain. She was going to get even with that bastard Gene - how dare he dump her in...

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My feet ached, but it was well worth it.

12 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Shrimpy

In the scheme of things, it wasn't a permanent state I was after. Just long enough to get on stage, dance for two min...

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Run.

My hands and feet ache, but it was well worth it. We are nearly there, a couple more hours. Georgie is starving and I...

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Journey with a Cause

My feet ached, but it was well worth it. This is what I said when I completed that trek. The endless days and nights,...

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6 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The Dream - Part 2

He had had that dream again. He had dreamed about that walk and the ice sculpture many times. But this was the first ...

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The dream

The words from the poem mirrored the scene in front of him. "Two roads diverged in a wood," he recited aloud. "Which ...

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Cotton Love

Dave had placed an add just the week before in the personals. His fetish wasn't the most obscure among those looking ...

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