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Something of Value

"It is here. Start digging." the large man pointed with his hat. "How do you know? What is this treasure?" "Dig, or...

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The jar

"Grandpop's teeth didn't look like that." "How do you know?" "Because mom always said you got his teeth. Do your te...

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Seed

A small flower Just a seed planted in the dark you were fed, to grow, to blossom. In the dark you grew, Spreading yo...

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5 stories · started almost 15 years ago
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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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She opened the envelope and screamed.

15 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Acceptance

She opened the envelope and screamed. "I got in!" she told her parents, hopping excitedly as she held out the accepta...

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Poetic Justice

She opened the envelope and screamed. This was not the day to be squeamish. This was the day her daughter would be ...

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Letters to Paris

She opened the envelope and screamed. She could not believe him, she simply could not believe that he was still persu...

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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

Sam · Ambulance Driver · Hitch a ride

8 stories · started over 16 years ago
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Leap of Faith

"Come on," Ricardo yelled, growing more frustrated by the second. "That guy is still trailing us. Step on it!" "I don...

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The car hit

I was down. The car hit me straight on. I thought I was on vacation for the week but obviously the ambulance driver t...

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Hitching

All Sam had wanted was a ride. He's grown up in the Mid West, eaten his breakfast from cereal cartons plastered wi...

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8 stories · started about 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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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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The elephant dragged its feet.

9 stories · started over 15 years ago
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ancient temple

Along a windig path we went up to find the ancient temle which no one has seen in thousands of years. I am archeologi...

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Boom!! I heard the the elephant fall on the floor it felt like there was a earthquake. There where people screaming a...

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Mismatched

The elephant dragged its feet. Since they were made of rubber, this made the task all the more difficult, as she pull...

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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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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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