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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 over 14 years ago
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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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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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First line

The day after tomorrow, this will all be over.

15 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Impatience

The day after tomorrow, this will be all over. The waiting, the anxiety, the impatience will end. I have paced my roo...

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Dead lines

Martin Adams began to type. He wasn't sure what to say; a fact that the repeated DELETES and EDITS made clear. Love l...

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The Day after Tomorrow

The day after tomorrow, this will all be over. End of the world according to the Mayan predictions. It didn't seem wo...

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First line

He set the plate before her.

15 stories · started over 15 years ago
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kidnap

He set the plate before her. She was petrified, the bugs an creepy crawlies moving around on her plate didn't help. S...

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Hunger

He set the plate before her. It was barely covered, a thin, fatty slice of what looked like baloney slapped alongside...

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Mental

The room was dimly lit with the candles he had scattered before she had arrived. The meal would be served in just a ...

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6 stories · started almost 13 years ago
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The Gray Day

On the top of a roof, in Australia, there was a chair carved from an Italian carpenter in the 18th century. It was a ...

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My dominance

sitting on the I see my family crumbling before my eyes. I have achieved my goal, revenge for what they have done to ...

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Come back to me

I sat there every day waiting. But nothing ever happened. I hoped if I sat there long enough that she would come back...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Chocolate lab · Haggard old woman · Eating apple pie

2 stories · started almost 17 years ago
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Pie

She made pie again. She never lets me have any, but this time she made one huge mistake: placing the pie on the windo...

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Projections of Villainy

He'd sat patiently on the threshold of the kitchen all afternoon. She'd dropped countless morsels of crust, of walnut...

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One scoop chocolate, one scoop...

13 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Crisis Averted

One scoop chocolate, one scoop... The ice cream scoop clatters on the counter top, empty. I stare at the perfectly ro...

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Daddy's Girl

"One scoop chocolate, one scoop..." the girl giggled as she plopped the ice cream into the bowl. "Two scoops chocolat...

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More Than One Scoop

One scoop chocolate, one scoop strawberry. One scoop soil, one scoop blood. One scoop of fear, one scoop of daring. O...

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First line

The lamp wouldn't turn on.

34 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Stalker

It was dark inside. I toggled the switch, and nothing happened. Shit. Thunder rolled and I sighed. Power outage. ...

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Wishful Thinking

The lamp wouldn't turn on. I was going to have to help deliver a baby in pitch darkness. With the elevator stuck betw...

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Her Work

The lamp wouldn't turn on. "Shit," Mel muttered. "Jerry!" Of course, he wouldn't come. He was in the tiny bathr...

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11 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Down

It was an early morning. Anna was going for a morning run around her block. She was always found doing something wort...

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The book

The young man stared down at the small book, his middle and index fingers pressed down to keep the pages from turning...

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Passport Problems

I looked at the passport, and then back up at the woman standing in front of me. "Are you serious?" I asked, a puzzl...

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