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4 stories · started over 15 years ago
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My Father

I remember when I was a kid. I sat on the edge of my father's car, waiting for him come home from his walks. I would ...

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Soft Mountain

I remember the smell of wet snow on a blinding morning. Squinting through glare and steam. Battleship twigs wobble in...

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America the Bountiful

The winter of 1970 in the Bay Area was not something I ever expected to experience- especially since I was born in 19...

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My Dream

He led me to the spot and I gasped. "Alex...did you seriously build this?" "For us." He took my hand and I blushed so...

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The Beckoning

As I gazed across the lake at the empty gazebo, I realized I wanted to be there. To stand in the center, surrounded b...

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Running Through Rivendell

The dock at his grandfather's pond always reminded him of Imladris, the land known as Rivendell in Tolkien's The Hobb...

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Good for her.

It was her masterpiece. Jutting out of the water, everyone around could see what she'd created - what *she* had crea...

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The Party Crasher

His dive, performed in front of the small, half-drunk dinner party, was perfect in his mind. He'd had a few martinis ...

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Chain Mail Ponderings

For some reason, I couldn't stop staring at the picture. It was... gorgeous, sure. The colors were somewhat exaggerat...

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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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Feelings

If you ever pass this house on 23 silverdores street, your sight will be mesmerized. A red checkered pattern clock ha...

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The Border

The border. He had. To find. The border. He'd made this trip a hundred times before and each time the damn thing move...

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You know damn well the head is in the box. You know damn well how this movie will end. But her legs are across yours ...

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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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Hero · Villain · Goal

Chicken · Road · Reach the other side

8 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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I was twelve years old when I first sat behind the wheel. I was very nervous to drive but as I was very much into car...

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For Want of a Recipe

"Don't you realize you can make a cake WITHOUT any the products of my femininity?" asked the chicken. She fluffed he...

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A chicken's fear

I have anxiety issues okay? I swear every time I come here its the same goddamn thing. All I need is to walk, so I ap...

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Taste.

12 stories · started over 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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I shot my butler.

12 stories · started over 15 years ago
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I Shot My Butler

I shot my butler. He was a mole! I should have known. I'm trained to tell whether someone is lying or not. I'm a secr...

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I shot my butler.

I shot my butler. I never really wanted to though, He was a kind man. It was a week ago, and since then I've been a...

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Twist Endings

"I shot my butler." I threw the manuscript across the room. Grabbed a scotch. No. Wait. Wanted a scotch, grabbed a bo...

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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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