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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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The New Job

My singing was awful. Didn't matter as the audience were drunk, I could see Lorna sticking her tongue down John's thr...

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In the dark.

The lights dimmed. Mary-Rose, in her black-and-white jail-striped dress entered the stage from the left. My left, not...

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The Circle of Life

She sang. Her beautiful voice rang out through the dense smoke in the room, pushing out into the ears, minds and hear...

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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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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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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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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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Hero · Villain · Goal

Just a regular person. · The one who always had it in for me, ever since school. · Let it go

7 stories · started about 15 years ago
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"... must come back."

Justin was just a regular guy before I discovered him. Sure, he'd played Chronoball before. I'd even seen him do quit...

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Hit and Missed

Have I ever told you the story of how I got expelled from high school? It all started with this asshole kid, Greg Hel...

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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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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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Just One Length

"You know," Clark said, in-between rising above the water to take breaths as he swam. "I really hate you." John shru...

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Longing

When I swam across the ocean to my new home, I never guessed that I would meet the man of my dreams, or all the hassl...

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Suzy

The pool was larger than any that I had ever seen. When my parents told us that we were going to Sea World, I never t...

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