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She opened the envelope and screamed.

15 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Acceptance

She opened the envelope and screamed. "I got in!" she told her parents, hopping excitedly as she held out the accepta...

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Poetic Justice

She opened the envelope and screamed. This was not the day to be squeamish. This was the day her daughter would be ...

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Letters to Paris

She opened the envelope and screamed. She could not believe him, she simply could not believe that he was still persu...

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4 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Something of Value

"It is here. Start digging." the large man pointed with his hat. "How do you know? What is this treasure?" "Dig, or...

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The jar

"Grandpop's teeth didn't look like that." "How do you know?" "Because mom always said you got his teeth. Do your te...

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Seed

A small flower Just a seed planted in the dark you were fed, to grow, to blossom. In the dark you grew, Spreading yo...

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She could tell I was faking it.

15 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Wordsmith

Savouring words was a joy to him. Illiterate for many years; he learnt to read and write late in life. His appreciati...

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Just a thought

She could tell I was faking it. My smile felt wrong, though no one else knew. She knew. A glance at the priest standi...

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5 Seconds

She could tell I was faking it. They all could. They'd have to have known I wasn't "fine". I mean, come on. It's not ...

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I lost my grip on the wheel.

9 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Ice

It was late, one winter night. I was not accustomed to being awake at this hour. My car didn't handle the cold well, ...

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Losing my grip

I lost my grip on the wheel. It had happened before, but it wasn't nearly as embarrassing as now. I had just left P.E...

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Driving along a road at night, rain pelting down, tall trees waving low branches across the sky, no moon, no road lig...

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Waves.

10 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The Helper

She laid there for an hour before moving. The waves had brought her here, and deigned not to take her away again. She...

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Uncanny Nostalgia

Waves. Thats all I saw. Waves, waves, waves. Just little curves in the ocean, that broke down and collapsed into them...

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Waves.

The water crashes onto our feet. His hand lets go of mine as he turns away from me. He tells me he can't let me do th...

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Portraits

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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The elephant dragged its feet.

9 stories · started over 15 years ago
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ancient temple

Along a windig path we went up to find the ancient temle which no one has seen in thousands of years. I am archeologi...

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Boom!! I heard the the elephant fall on the floor it felt like there was a earthquake. There where people screaming a...

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Mismatched

The elephant dragged its feet. Since they were made of rubber, this made the task all the more difficult, as she pull...

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She didn't look at him.

25 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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In her arms

She didn't look at him she couldn't tell him. She couldn't even tell her family. What would they say? What would they...

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Towards and Away

She didn't look at him; she looked past him, half closing her eyes as if basking in the sunlight. She was really tryi...

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I love you

She didn't look at him. She couldn't look at him. What would he think? she wondered as she sipped her wine and kept h...

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4 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Liquid Dreams

Cindy yawned and stretched as she started her day. It was time to walk her pet octopus. She pulled Ollie out of his...

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3 friends

This is the short story about the journey of three friends from plumstead to central london at 23/02/2015. Friend ...

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Spray

Penelope loved the fountain, loved the way the water sprayed, cooling her in the hot sun, making her clothes cling as...

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Without Cause

He wandered a lot. Not usually while he was home, but when the time presented itself and he was in a new location bef...

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"Let's go for a walk," I said. "I have eaten the salami and now I have strength and you girls need to find sex partne...

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If I had a box full of pounds from every time someone said if I had a pound for every time It would probably have lik...

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