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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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First line

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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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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2 stories · started over 14 years ago
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Pray

Edgar watched the raven as the raven watching the moon. Silhouetted against the clouds, she was a beautiful sight: a ...

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I have come to dread the raven's caw that signals moonrise. It is the dread noise that warns me of worse to come, wh...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Mallard Duck · BP · Heroism on a Ducky Scale

4 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Oil

The oil had come months ago now. They had thought it would disappear. It had always done so before. But it had remai...

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Duck and Lover

"Mallard duck," she said, just before she placed the binoculars back down on the car hood. "No doubt about it." This...

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Duckie

"Quack quack quack!" *Translation: OH NO! BP! "Quack quack quack quack." *Translation: I'll have to move to anothe...

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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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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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Hero · Villain · Goal

Homeless Man · Public Bus · Life

5 stories · started almost 17 years ago
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The Substitute

Every morning, the No. 7 bus drives down Cherry Lane. The kids waiting for the bus get splashed by a puddle whenever ...

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Dead Man's Hand

Leave me behind as you do is because of my fault. The fault you saw in me is the one you said you'd fix, it's the fau...

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Small Choices

It was an odd feeling. Looking at a family. He'd been away from his own family for so long that he felt like he'd nev...

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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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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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