Hero · Villain · Goal

Wrongfully Accused Congressman · Prison Guard · Escape

3 stories · started over 16 years ago
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The Example

"You been seeing the television?" the Guard said. Huxton squinted, through the bleariness of sleep into the bleach o...

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Squirelly Bill Hines

With fifteen minutes until the start of the hearing, a bagel stop was inadvisable. The queue for the espresso machin...

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Escape From Alcatraz

I wanted to give him everything I had. He was my love, and I knew, at long last, what I wanted out of life. I wanted...

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11 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Change of Heart

I knew that my outfit was risky, the plunging black bra exposing large breasts and cleavage. White sheer dress with b...

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and what i mean to say is

"You don't like her, do you?" "I don't have to." He glanced at her, although kept his eyes on the road. "You ha...

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Criollos

We almost died on the way to Guayaquil. I think we would have been more worried if there hadn't been a near-accident....

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First line

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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8 stories · started over 13 years ago
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Alone

Sometimes, the best cure for loneliness is to actually be alone. Which is actually kind of hard to do, considering t...

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There was originally only one photograph. Now there were two. Well, two halves. Incomplete. Roughly cut down the midd...

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Potential

The ghosts of her past continued to haunt her. The parents she'd disappointed, the boy she'd left behind, even the t...

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7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Family

My family is all we have, we're all so tight and we wouldn't leave each other ever. We made a promise that till death...

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He walked back, the small rocks crunching under his feet and the lips of fish sucking to his fingers, as if they were...

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Mistaken Belief

Fish meant for market was found dumped in a bin outside the school. The mother believed the rotting smell would disgu...

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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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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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Hero · Villain · Goal

Kelsey · Kent · End the bloodshed

4 stories · started over 16 years ago
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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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Bromley 2012

Kelsey was afraid to go out at night. Afraid of big, bad Bromley. When she told people she met online that she left i...

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First line

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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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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