Hero · Villain · Goal

A skeleton key · Locked chest · Opening

3 stories · started over 16 years ago
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Putting up with Life

"At long last it is a weekend", says Katherine. She didn't question why she was in this seedy club. She didn't care a...

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dusty

She found the key on the internet. It seemed silly, a little, to buy a physical and tangible thing like that to ope...

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The key to His Heart

The Skeleton Key was lying on the dresser, as it had for as long as he could remember. It meant more to him now than ...

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Kelsey · Kent · End the bloodshed

4 stories · started over 16 years ago
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To Make a Change

Kelsey had always hated Kent. Kent was a skinny, chaste, and weak man. His skin was light and ashy, his hair not blon...

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Kent was stabbing someone. I think it was Mary. Maybe it was Bill. I don't know. The important thing is that it was a...

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Bromley 2012

Kelsey was afraid to go out at night. Afraid of big, bad Bromley. When she told people she met online that she left i...

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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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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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She'd have preferred the electric chair.

16 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Why?

I couldn't move. My legs felt like jelly and I had to sit. Everything in the hospital seemed to go blurry. "Are you o...

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The Electric Chair

She'd have preferred the electric chair, but he wouldn't have it. "Think about how much easier it would be on everyon...

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One For the Gator

"She'd have preferred the electric chair," Melanie said. A half grin sat on her lips as she stirred the crinkle fry ...

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Maggie · Customs · A Cup of Tea

8 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Contraband

Maggie knew it was only a matter of time before she was caught. It was inevitable, as certain as the rising of the su...

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Tea With Mother

"hello Maggie." Said mother I couldn't believe that she was trying to talk to me now. After all the things she put me...

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I Won't

"Just drink the tea, Maggie." Custom said. He had set up a beautiful table with scones and tea and all the fripperi...

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11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The blind Spot

Annabelle Clarisse, was born blind but her disability never stopped her from visualising the world with her other sen...

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Children's Game

I could feel their glares. They loved to do this. I kept tripping over branches and I could feel the cuts on my arms....

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Prey

"It was just like all the others. "Fear. Defense. Anonymity. "Just enough of the subject's face had been blurred so...

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The maple leaves will change and fall with a certain grace – November will begin.

8 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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#hashtag condolivin'

#hashtag condo livin. Last year i bought a tiny orange tree to spruce up my tiny patio. #condolife. Over the many m...

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Tree Nymph

The colors bleed into brown, red to rust, green to yellow. The maple leaves will change and fall with a certain grac...

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Winter worship

then the cold A wet cold that moves through you that clings to your insides A cold that whispers soft and true _You ...

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17 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The Book

On the journey back from the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes began writing his memoirs. The book was sent to a tru...

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Beyond Edges

The library was dark, lights shutting off behind me but I continued to thumb through the book. They had lamps on the ...

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Nessie Love

The Loch Ness Monster was on vacation. As was the case with most celebrities, Nessie wanted her privacy. This wasn't ...

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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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