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I'm in love with a robot.

13 stories · started over 15 years ago
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I'm In Love With A Robot

I'm in love with a robot. I know, I know, that sounds strange. But I am. It's name, or at least the name I gave it, i...

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The girlfriend side of the bed

I am in love with a coffee machine. A robot that makes coffee. I am giddy about it my mornings are filled with percol...

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Golden skin glowed in the afternoon sun, revealing a fine tracery of pale blue at the inside of the wrist. Lips, lus...

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Marvin · Melinda · Answer the phone

5 stories · started over 16 years ago
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Phone calls

I am Luciana "Answer the phone" My boyfriend Marvin shouted across the room. My life was horrible. Being the boyfrien...

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Random Scenario

Marvin lunged towards the stand upon which sat an old, analog phone. He almost made it. Melinda tackled him from be...

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O Fortuna

He was lucky when he found that nickel in the bushes, that'll show up again later. But it wasn't luck that brought hi...

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Gradually.

16 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Special Skills

Gradually, Houdini slipped out of his handcuffs. He unshackled his legs and wriggled out of his straitjacket. He was ...

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Genesis

Slowly it built, piece by piece. The atoms of its essence compiling line after line, upwards and outwards, exploding ...

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A Great Morning

"Big wheels keep on turnin'..." Paul's hands beat on the steering wheel in time with Lynyrd Skynrd as he drove down t...

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11 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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fascade

He stood outside the castle, looking in. That little fence was all that separated him from the world of imagination....

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Billy was steadfastly unimpressed. "Can we go home now?" he asked. "But, Billy, don't you want to see the top of th...

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True Story

My throat ached from a barrage of overpriced, fried abuse. My voice was hoarse, having spent most of the day screamin...

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Vanquished.

18 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Short for Nothing

Your foundation was laid a long time ago. You said it was always the same, just before. His voice offering up your na...

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Beautiful

Monica Albott had never been beautiful. Sure, she had been cute, pretty even, but never beautiful. She said this ove...

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Morning trouble

Creeping up again. That is what I thought as as I woke up in my nice but dull apartment. The life I had made for myse...

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6 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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A Modest Birthday

The kids huddled around the tiny bundt cake, sipping juice from their plastic cups. A lone candle burned at the cen...

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Birthday bunker

We have been in the bunker for weeks now sharing a room with me and my five brothers. Its hard to imagine our life be...

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these last little fires

If I were a scientist I would invent a drug, which could bring me back to all of the feelings I was able to experienc...

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Taste.

12 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Overcompensation

In the beginning, he tasted like rainwater: salty. Dried sweat around the rim of his mouth, a taste that clung to his...

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Overcompensation

In the beginning, he tasted like rainwater: salty. Dried sweat around the rim of his mouth, a taste that clung to his...

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Flavors.

I can taste the tingle on my tongue the second it touches. I can smell the sweet/sour, crisp, smell. The food is amaz...

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When I was 12, I went to sea.

11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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An unexpected sight

When I was 12, I went to sea. I was on my father's ship for 6 months and 4 days when i caught a glimpse of her. I ...

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Oppimaton

When I was 12, I went to sea. Don't ask me which. I don't know. It was sometimes blue, and it was sometimes green. ...

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Sea of Apathy

When I was 12, I went to sea. I went to sea to see the sea. I had yet to see the sea until I was 12. Then the sea I s...

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There's somebody standing in the corner of my room.

22 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Darkness

There's somebody standing in the corner of my room. Well, "standing" may be the wrong word. There's someone IN the c...

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Dependence

He likes his own room, but he likes mine more. He's five. Half the time, if he had his way he would climb back insi...

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Corner of the Room

There's somebody standing in the corner of my room. That's what she told me most days and as normal, I ignored her. I...

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8 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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A Holiday Swim

While me and my friend were packing, I thought of what we will do during the holiday we have away from school or stre...

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Mind And Body

I was scared. I could see another perspective of myself. Did I want this to happen, no, but did it happen for a reaso...

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And There Was Nothing

I lay there, floating. On the outside, at least. On the inside, I walked quietly down a dark hallway towards a bright...

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