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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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You can count me out.

20 stories · started about 15 years ago
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The Man Who Wouldn't Come To Tea

"Oh, do come for dinner!" she purred. "Is there anything you don't eat?" "Well ... quite a few things," he said. "I h...

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Count Me Out

You can count me out. You can count me out. How many times do I have to say it? Count me out of your scheme. I have...

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Equality

You can count me out, I said. I am not doing it. No. I left this years ago. I have a life now, I told them. No more o...

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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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17 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Burn

His apology was not the thing she'd expected when she checked her phone in the morning. With one eye she stared at th...

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A Future in a Story

"What is this?" I ask, my voice becoming more and more hysterical with every word I say. "It's your life." Jordan say...

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text

The words hovered beneath my glowing finger, power incarnate. I lifted the text, spinning it lazily in the air, befor...

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Nostalgia

Nostalgia. Oh, how I love the feeling. Staring across the dim room at my parent's house is where it began. Noticing...

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Missing Without A Trace

0900 hrs. Scott was seen leaving his fiance's home by a neighbour who looked up as he slammed the door hard and swore...

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The following is excerpted from IrishAbroad circa 2000: Flashback .Sunday morning 11am...Woke up to the sound of me o...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Turtle · Zeno · Go the distance

3 stories · started over 16 years ago
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Go the distance

What does it mean to go the distance? Does it mean to beat everyone else or to beat yourself? When you grow up, paren...

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The Tortoise's Lament

Now, supposedly, if I start out a hundred meters ahead of Achilles, and Achilles is travelling five times faster than...

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Accident at the Zoo

"His thoughts are too scattered, just give him a moment to collect." This advice within the high pitched laugh of a w...

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6 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Letting Go

I always imagined that I'd feel nothing. Instead, I feel everything. Every paper cut, every broken heart, everything...

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Leap

Heather had never found her talent. The smallest amount of knitting made her arms feel like they'd fall from her sho...

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Jump.

Standing on the edge, my mind was white. No; it was clear. Nothing I had experienced in my 18 years was going through...

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He left me hanging.

2 stories · started over 15 years ago
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“Pob lwc.” the elder of Saint Joseph’s had wished me, after his strange warning. I presumed he meant for my first Mas...

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A dog leg to the right

”Beware the Bwgan Fawr.” the old Vicar sighed. “Every chapel has to have its ‘Ysbryd capel’…” “Its chapel ghost?” th...

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First line

The disco ball was turning.

27 stories · started about 15 years ago
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What a night

I was dancing. The disco ball was turning. It was Monica's sweet 16 and I got invited. But unfortunately, I regrette...

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A real horror story

The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...

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A real horror story

The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...

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Confused

Confusion. That's what I am currently experiencing. I used to believe that I was a self-assured and secure person, bu...

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The First Date

Sex wasn't always the first thing on Mandy's mind but it was today. The long zip at the front of the dress was perfec...

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I laugh because I am

We are made of fluff and light. We are made for a continuing struggle to come together in our floating. When I fell...

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