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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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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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11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The blind Spot

Annabelle Clarisse, was born blind but her disability never stopped her from visualising the world with her other sen...

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Children's Game

I could feel their glares. They loved to do this. I kept tripping over branches and I could feel the cuts on my arms....

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Prey

"It was just like all the others. "Fear. Defense. Anonymity. "Just enough of the subject's face had been blurred so...

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It approached.

14 stories · started over 15 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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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 disco ball was turning.

27 stories · started about 15 years ago
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What a night

I was dancing. The disco ball was turning. It was Monica's sweet 16 and I got invited. But unfortunately, I regrette...

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A real horror story

The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...

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A real horror story

The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...

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7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Last cat alive

They laughed at the little thing as it squirmed The dark water so close but so far away now in their minds The way th...

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This is my cat

I have a cat. Look at my cat. This is my cat. I have a cat. The cat likes it when I hold it. The cat likes to put i...

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Alfie

She held the cat tightly in her arms, relishing in the warmth. It was comforting, strangely comforting, how much she ...

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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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Light.

11 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Broken Morning

Face down on the cold floor of the cathedral, Brother Fidelis whispered his prayers. Though his lips brushed the dust...

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Coward

Light. Fuck light, right? Right. Light just shows what I don't want to share, it takes away my CHOICE. Isn't that ...

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Light

Light as a feather. Light on the eyes. Light flashing into tear streaming eyes. Light in my arms, My long-lost love...

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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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