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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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8 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Bug dead

Once upon a time there was a bug who wanted to live on my finger. I called the little fella over and asked him to sta...

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The swarm

It was a swarm. They were trying to get in. Surrounding the house. I was running frantically throughout the house, ma...

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The Flying Bug

He didn't know what to say. No one did. It had never landed on anyone's finger before. The fabled winged bug, unlike ...

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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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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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11 stories · started over 14 years ago
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6 Minute Story

Signs were put up on the wall, all help is lost . The war took the lives of many great, respectable people but this w...

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Doodle

Becky hoped Tom saw what she had written before her teacher did. Mr. Smith was notoriously tidy about the things in ...

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Tree Hugger

I never liked autumn leaves as you do. I watched you look at trees, the delight on your face intensified when you clo...

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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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The bear was furious.

5 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Who's Writing This Tale?

The bear was furious. He was knocking on doors, climbing stairs, and waiting for elevators, and he couldn't find Gold...

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Silver Velveteen in the New Order

The bear was furious. He could no longer spot where the rabbit had gone. In the New World Order, this was something t...

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The bear was furious. Dr Who had eaten his chocolate again. This time he wsn't going to let the jumped up timelord ge...

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Travel light, but take everything with you.

19 stories · started over 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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Woolly Mammoth · Ice Snakes · The Olympics

5 stories · started almost 17 years ago
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Going for the Gold

The woolly mammoth lined up for the next event in the prehistoric Winter Olympics: the 400 meter speed skating compet...

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Woolly Mammoth

"Ice Snakes! I will not let you beat me into the Olympics!" Woolly Mammoth shouted as he watched the Ice Snakes perfo...

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Spell

From the day the museum opened, the mammoth was the first thing every visitor saw. How could they miss it? It towered...

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Potatoes.

20 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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911

"Following up from the fight we had last night Darren" "I don't wanna talk about it Judy" I can see the fear in Darre...

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Potatoes Were My Last Resort

I spent days in the field, hoping to see something bloom. The desert surrounded me like the ocean that surrounds an i...

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potatoes

I got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, lamb, ham, hogs, dogs, beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, chicken, turkey, r...

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