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Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway.

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The girl in the red gown

Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway. It was snowing, freezing her slowly. She continued...

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Red Gown

Rain poured down, next to her, the doorway shielding her. She clutched her red gown as she huddled down close to the ...

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Liun

Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway. It was raining, her hair was plastered to her fac...

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Goodnight...

14 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Protection

Goodnight sweetheart, well it's time to go... Goodnight sweetheart, well it's time to go... There's a contentment th...

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The Antithesis

Sleep and you may dream. Remain and you will surely regret the decisions you make in the night. Intermittent car ho...

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A Good Night Turned

"Good night," the bar manager said, as he tapped a stack of bills on their side to even them out. The waitress dumped...

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predator

The earthy smell of autumn leaves surrounded me and stimulated my senses. The crisp crunch of leaves was projected th...

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The red dawn lies

Some mornings, when the sun rose just right, it was almost like nothing had happened. This was one of those mornings...

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Wind Wind Wind

She ran off into the plants and tall grasses and let her body sway with the wind. She called it her meditation, the o...

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2070.

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2070

2070. Last digits of the code. No matter what they did, I was not going to tell them the rest of it. My undercover me...

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Joskus

I liked Erica, but Daddy didn't. She did everything for him, like the man on the advert said she would, and it had me...

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what i want for 2070

2070, by 2070 i want all the bad things to be gone. i want there to be a cure to all the bad things that affect our w...

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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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No Value

What happens when life finally becomes too much to bear? He thought about it a great deal - but was unable to put his...

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Boogie

Erring on the side of caution I took two of the smaller ones. Just like breakfast, or a night on the town. My body wa...

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Breaking Glass Wrist

There was a girl that I used to work with at the Goodwill who had eyes that were far too close together. Her body was...

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Knives

10 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Knives

Knives. Knives. What was she going to use them on next? The silver blades shimmered in the sunlight streaming thro...

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A Walking Arsenal

He was a walking arsenal with knives strapped to his armor at forearms, biceps, chest and back. Two smaller throwing ...

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Knives

That was the last thing she saw. It was headed straight for her chest, a glittering blade, and she saw it in slow-mot...

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My Dream

He led me to the spot and I gasped. "Alex...did you seriously build this?" "For us." He took my hand and I blushed so...

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The Beckoning

As I gazed across the lake at the empty gazebo, I realized I wanted to be there. To stand in the center, surrounded b...

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Running Through Rivendell

The dock at his grandfather's pond always reminded him of Imladris, the land known as Rivendell in Tolkien's The Hobb...

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My Father

I remember when I was a kid. I sat on the edge of my father's car, waiting for him come home from his walks. I would ...

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Soft Mountain

I remember the smell of wet snow on a blinding morning. Squinting through glare and steam. Battleship twigs wobble in...

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America the Bountiful

The winter of 1970 in the Bay Area was not something I ever expected to experience- especially since I was born in 19...

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Gradually.

16 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Special Skills

Gradually, Houdini slipped out of his handcuffs. He unshackled his legs and wriggled out of his straitjacket. He was ...

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Genesis

Slowly it built, piece by piece. The atoms of its essence compiling line after line, upwards and outwards, exploding ...

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A Great Morning

"Big wheels keep on turnin'..." Paul's hands beat on the steering wheel in time with Lynyrd Skynrd as he drove down t...

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