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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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Highrises.

7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Highrise

I never realized just how high the flats in this area stood. Concrete giants standing over this urban world which I a...

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Epiphany in Media Res

It rose. She held his hand and it felt like grass. It was grass between her fingers; but for all she cared at that mo...

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Prayer Request

The message was received. "Prayers are needed for a friend. he has cancer." Horrible! Terrible news! Certainly not t...

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4 stories · started over 14 years ago
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Plantation Lake

The plumber did not arrive on time. Later I found out he'd been fishing in Plantation Lake, that place near Kingswood...

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Bapa's Boat

I sit high in the tree above the water. Watching. Bapa sits in his little green boat rocking gently in the water. The...

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An American Setting

swallowed by the water flowers at last the canoe breathed across the swamp I found the roots of an ancient oak felled...

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4 stories · started almost 13 years ago
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HAH

Hi, My name is Bob and i like small cars. People tell me it's a tractor but i know that its just a small car and you ...

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The New Place

I looked back thinking about all of the things in that village. i didn't like the thoughts of that, but i have moved ...

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Cycles

There not much to say about this motorcycle that my grandfather gave me other than it's seen better days. The rust on...

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9 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Runner

It was night time, in a fancy restaurant. We just sat down. Liana runs off and I follow. There was nothing else to do...

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Where am I going? thought Harold Sunday as he sped through yet another red light. The intersection blurred behind hi...

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Welcome Home

The white sedan zipped down the city streets, passing cars frantically, horn honking. Inside, Mark Strickland sat beh...

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Peasants.

12 stories · started about 15 years ago
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The Wall Guy

Peasants. They wouldn't understand. Or perhaps couldn't. Yes. I like that. Their brains too small to grasp the magnit...

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I didn't Finnish u.u

"Peasants," I said as I walked by a group huddled together speaking in their annoying voices and telling stupid stori...

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Letter to Raul Manglapuz

Peasants. We all are peasants. I am a peasant, endlessly tilling the vast land of my master. I have a perpetual inc...

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8 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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We Won

I hid behind the low, green trees. Gunshots scream as the team squatted behind the sandstone houses. 'RUN!' The chief...

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Desert Flower

When I see these flowers, and this man standing here (that's me, by the way), and I see all the men with guns walking...

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Desert Flower

When I see these flowers, and this man standing here (that's me, by the way), and I see all the men with guns walking...

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11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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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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She could tell I was faking it.

15 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Wordsmith

Savouring words was a joy to him. Illiterate for many years; he learnt to read and write late in life. His appreciati...

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Just a thought

She could tell I was faking it. My smile felt wrong, though no one else knew. She knew. A glance at the priest standi...

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5 Seconds

She could tell I was faking it. They all could. They'd have to have known I wasn't "fine". I mean, come on. It's not ...

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They gathered in the woods.

13 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The Gathering Storm

They gathered in the woods. There were seven of them, rangers all. Alifer the Bold arrived first, his great yew bow a...

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The Wicker Man

They gathered in the woods. On Summerisle. The pagan community anticipating a good harvest. Burning the trapped victi...

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Secure

And so another group assembled. The moon shone like the eye of a great forgotten deity, peering down on the hooded fi...

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