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She cradled the faun's head.

7 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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A long long way to run

Feeling like a fool, alone but still wondering how she looked, how she looked to other people. She should just allow ...

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Bedtime Stories

She cradled the faun's head and he went to sleep. I had read the final line of the bedtime story about a thousand ti...

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13. She cradled the faun's head.

She cradled the faun's head. She listened to its soft breath, listened to its complaint, listened its petition. But...

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5 stories · started about 16 years ago
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The Teleporter, Part 4

When Martin woke up, he was still in the back of the van. He didn't know, how long he was unconscious. He couldn't se...

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The Soldiers Are Coming

Shots were fired all around town. Poor innocent lives we're taken in a matter of seconds. They were taking over... ev...

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History

The snow had hardened overnight and was crisp now. It wasn't what you would call a cold day and Fran had left her jac...

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19 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Is Anyone There.

She was walking down the sidewalk in the downtown area of Seattle when she noticed a pile of white blankets and other...

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The birds

They would never stop. She used to love the sight of birds on a rooftop, electric wires, even clotheslines. She used...

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Wallside Man

Disappeared into the cityscape, hiding unintentionally, friend to only the birds, for they are the only ones who wi...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Kelsey · Kent · End the bloodshed

5 stories · started over 16 years ago
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Breathlessly she pried open the little box on her palm. Her eyes widened. "How, how could this..." Footsteps approac...

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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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They were listening.

21 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Listening

Blood dripped down from my arms to my legs. I was bound to a pole in an empty room with nothing but a mirror to look ...

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They Were Listening

I crept silently through then corridor, the occasional creak of the floorboards abruptly halting me in my path. The...

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Interrogation

They were listening. I wasn't worried though, It's not like I had anything important to say. Just knowing that they w...

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It approached.

14 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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It Approached

She could feel the terror drenching and cloaking itself around her. Don't be afraid, it whispered. You've known for y...

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The Gang

It came at me. At a speed of lightning. I couldn't think. Speak, or even hear correctly. The crowbar was flung direct...

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The fires

Looking out my thirteenth floor office window, I marveled at how dark, gritty and simply dirty the air looked. It wa...

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4 stories · started about 14 years ago
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The Teleporter, Part I

"Jesus Christ! Where am I now?" As Martin gazed into the vast ocean in front of him, the broken teleporter still beep...

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Listen

"Listen," I whisper. "Hear the waves crash." She listens, head cocked to one side. Her beautiful golden hair cascades...

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A Morning at The Beach

The waves crashed and slapped at the stones, slurping up mouthfuls of sand and dragging them back to the deep. Elk st...

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5 stories · started over 14 years ago
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I'm a Walker, not a Wanderer

I have always been a walker. Not a wanderer - that is what I sometimes hear them calling me now. No, I have always be...

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Old fool

Good Lord! What is that old fool doing. He is out and about with only a tatty old dressing gown and a pair of mouldy ...

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Step

Just one more step. That's all it would take to step into eternity. Not even that. If the day had been wet instead o...

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7 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Fish Food

all alone. all alone forever. all by myself. I am the last left of my family. the last splotch of colour in the green...

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Flourescent

Everyone's a joker, until the joke's on them, thought the fish. Swimming in the fluorescent green waters was hell on ...

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Three Seconds Later

"It's called a goldfish." "Goldfish? Not much of a name." "That's right. Wasn't much of a fish, either. They used t...

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I held it at arm's length.

15 stories · started over 15 years ago
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It’s all relative

I held it at arms length. A scruffy business card in battered Russian. Something like “путешествие во времени” (“pute...

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Birthday Present

I held it at arm's length. Three feet long from blade to hilt it, the replica Confederate cavalry sword is beautiful....

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Mission Possible

I held it at arm's length, pressing the butt of the gun into my shoulder. It was heavy and my muscles screamed and bu...

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