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6 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Remembering November.

The building I lived in was old, rusty around the doorknobs, the 14th floor was still half under construction. The we...

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This Building in Reverse

My word muscles are stiff. My writing bones ache. The prose reads like a bruise. I burst bored air through my lips, ...

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Laying Siege

I lay siege to it. This was war and a fast and furious assault seemed the surest course. There was a front to push fo...

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8 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Bug dead

Once upon a time there was a bug who wanted to live on my finger. I called the little fella over and asked him to sta...

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The swarm

It was a swarm. They were trying to get in. Surrounding the house. I was running frantically throughout the house, ma...

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The Flying Bug

He didn't know what to say. No one did. It had never landed on anyone's finger before. The fabled winged bug, unlike ...

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She was the most delicate girl in town.

12 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Blind

She was the most delicate girl in town, so different from all the rest. I look at her and all I can do is smile, she...

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Fooled

She was the most delicate girl in town. Or at least, that's what they all thought. With her prim private school uni...

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The Delicate Chance

The Delicate Chance No one ever dared to push her too hard. She was robbed of all her real potential because everyone...

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11 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Speak When Spoken To

"What the hell happened here?" The man in the blue button up military coat came up to the wreck. He wore a hat on his...

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Memory

I saw the thing. It was preserved in the glass case, the only one of its kind. So faithfully had the curators touched...

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Whoops

"Well shit, that didn't work," the conductor said. He walked around the wreckage, pulling out passengers. Women, mos...

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The pistol was cocked, ready to go.

12 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Highwayman

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. Aiming at the highway man was easy, pulling the trigger was the problem. I couldn...

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Pull the Trigger

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. “Your turn” she said, as my hands trembled in fear. Why was I here? Who was she? ...

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Denny's

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. I was going to show him. I was angry, no, furious. He cut me off! In this city, t...

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18 stories · started about 16 years ago
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sea

Drowning in the sea. That was the trick of it. To be seen to swoon, to fall to the bottom. The pretend to expire. It ...

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sea

Drowning in the sea. That was the trick of it. To be seen to swoon, to fall to the bottom. The pretend to expire. It ...

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Tide

Marjorie was drowning. She felt the pull of the water on her legs and the icy shock in her heart. She hadn't even fe...

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6 stories · started over 12 years ago
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Growing Potential

The young woman stood in the garden, clutching a bunch of dead flowers. "This place needs a LOT of work," she thoug...

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My dad and I

I've love photography ever since my father got me into it a few years ago. It would be hard to fill in his shoes. Aft...

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Marriage

I clutched onto the flowers. Today was the day. I am only 19 but I am getting married right now. My father was a rich...

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100 feet away.

14 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The Imminent

I am really nervous. It's there. Looming. And I feel like if I move it will know, and everything around me will crumb...

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Synchronicity

100 feet away I watched the smugglers struggle to get over the jagged stones, collapse onto the wet sand, expel salt ...

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X-Files

100 feet away Mulder knew the Sasquatch was waiting. This was it, the moment of truth. Jonas, the new field agent c...

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14 stories · started about 16 years ago
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The Payphone

"What's that, Daddy?" James hid a smile behind his hand and answered, "That's a telephone, sweetie. You put money in...

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Meth-talk.

It's ringing. Ringing. Ringing. Ringing. STOP it from ringing! Karla never wanted to hear his voice again. Never wan...

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A dry, sandy summer like this one. I had met him just a mile down, by the Shell gas station, his cowboy boots kicking...

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Potatoes.

20 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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911

"Following up from the fight we had last night Darren" "I don't wanna talk about it Judy" I can see the fear in Darre...

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Potatoes Were My Last Resort

I spent days in the field, hoping to see something bloom. The desert surrounded me like the ocean that surrounds an i...

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potatoes

I got beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, lamb, ham, hogs, dogs, beans, greens, potatoes, tomatoes, chicken, turkey, r...

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