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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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4 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The bully

The bully grabbed me and Billy by the collar. He started dragging us in the direction of what looked like a soccer go...

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The Mystery

It seemed a good idea to tell the kids to hide behind the bars when the boy went berserk. Glue sniffing was the first...

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Three Goalies

Josh ground his teeth in frustration. The other kids on the playground were really getting to be a nuisance. He'd he...

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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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15 stories · started about 15 years ago
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A trip to the Zoo II

There's no way that's possible! But this horse-like creature, it clearly looks like what could be described as a uni...

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A trip to the Zoo.

One summer, I went to the Zoo with my family. Me, my husband and daughter all decided to go out of town for a week fo...

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"Of course, no one can make a unicorn," Pareth said, in that tone of voice he used when lecturing his students, "but ...

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