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4 stories · started over 14 years ago
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No Little Girl

It was supposed to be a nice relaxing drive. We were going to my mother's house for Christmas, the presents all stack...

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The Something

The curtains were the safety. I could never sleep unless the curtains were draped and folded over each other, obscur...

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Rain Rain Go Away

The car stalled. The roads were half washed out and the rain pounded like a blacksmith's hammer on the hood. The stor...

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Portraits

8 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Life isn't Perfect

My life has always been a mess. First, my parents get into a big fight and are now divorced. Then I had no choice but...

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Portraits

It was his job to paint portraits of people. They'd give him huge sums to paint them. Just look in the mirror, idiots...

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Artist

Whoever said a picture was worth a thousand words had never met Frank. The man had never met a camera he didn't lik...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Your 8 year old Brother · Dracula · Mixtape

4 stories · started almost 17 years ago
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Traveling Count

My eight-year-old brother couldn't sleep. He had watched a scary movie, and its main character was invading his thoug...

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Our basement encounter with Dracula

We were sitting in the basement, Danny and me. Tv's on. Hockey game. Upstairs ma and pa is fighting again. Bills. Or ...

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tell her to make you a dracula cake

dear bobo, happy birthday! i am sorry i missed it, but i hummed the song for you this morning while we convoyed into ...

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9 stories · started almost 15 years ago
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Lost at night

"HELP" "There's no hope," the monotone sound of Sarah's voice echoing throughout the silent forest. I could not see ...

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Hear Me Crow

the birds on the telephone line have heard me talking the birds on the power line have felt me typing one bird two bi...

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Silver Lining

The raven sat and contemplated the traveler beneath the moon's harsh gaze. She struggled onwards, leaning heavily on ...

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The water was clear.

16 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Water

The water was clear but her conscience was not. Carla gazed into the crystal goblet's depths, the sparkling liquid r...

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Narcissus

The water was clear, so I stared at it, looking at my reflection. I was ugly, there were no two ways about. She had b...

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Do We Really?

The water was clear and not a cloud was in the sky. Melody lay in the tall weeds near the lake under a weeping willow...

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I lost my grip on the wheel.

9 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Ice

It was late, one winter night. I was not accustomed to being awake at this hour. My car didn't handle the cold well, ...

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Losing my grip

I lost my grip on the wheel. It had happened before, but it wasn't nearly as embarrassing as now. I had just left P.E...

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Driving along a road at night, rain pelting down, tall trees waving low branches across the sky, no moon, no road lig...

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7 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Fish Food

all alone. all alone forever. all by myself. I am the last left of my family. the last splotch of colour in the green...

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Flourescent

Everyone's a joker, until the joke's on them, thought the fish. Swimming in the fluorescent green waters was hell on ...

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Three Seconds Later

"It's called a goldfish." "Goldfish? Not much of a name." "That's right. Wasn't much of a fish, either. They used t...

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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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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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12 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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WE ARE FLOATING

Da dum de dum, normal day- HOLY SH*T I'M FLOATING. WHAT THE HECK. I'M FLOATING. WAIT A MINUTE HOLD IT IS THAT A PINEA...

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Wonderful

She was lost in a land, not exactly a physical one. She was surrounded by things that made her happy. She was floatin...

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Alarm clocks, women, toys and books; Bananas, high-heels, dirty looks. The clocks get bigger as they grow, For Cleopa...

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