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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 daring were punished.

13 stories · started about 15 years ago
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The daring were punished. Oh, how they were punished. For their transgression of assumption: public mockery. For thei...

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The daring were punished. It seemed almost contradictory, but that was how They wanted it. Ever since the capital-t-...

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Elusive Dream

"What are you laughing about Jes?", inquired Sally. "I just had the most wonderful dream", replied Jes. "Can you ...

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Travel light, but take everything with you.

19 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Light travel

I look at the glistening gold clock hung onto the station wall. Time is ticking. So slowly I feel that time has froze...

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The Opportunity

This note. This one note. This small little ticket of joy, was my way out of here. Out of this dump. Where flies cons...

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Perhaps

"Travel light, but take everything with you," he said, his sky eyes looking off into the distance, "you never know wh...

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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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This dream was better than waking.

11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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This dream was better than waking. In it, his father took him fishing at Lake Oconee. They spent hours in their boat,...

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The Wedding Dream

This dream was better than waking. I was slim. Looked beautiful in the ivory vintage silk dress Mama had worn herself...

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the dream

The dream was better than waking. I floated, all the past troubles seeming to dissipate before my very eyes. Luke was...

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14 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Catch Me If You Cam

The young boy ran for his life, the giant monster of a dog chasing after him. The boy didn't do anything wrong, he th...

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You can tell by the sound

Wooshy Wooshy and futuristic Just out of the corner of my eye, that thing I had been running towards, to, seeking It...

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Bees

Running from the swarm of bees, Roger kept his eyes firmly ahead knowing he'd be able to jump into the river, swim un...

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There was blood on my pillow.

15 stories · started over 15 years ago
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That all wrapped up nicely

"there was blood on my pillow and a noose in my heart" These country singers were getting downright moros, good thou...

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Blood On My Pillow.

There was blood on my pillow. It's 6 a.m. and there is blood on my pillow. I started to try and remember what happene...

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Terror In Their Midst

Whitechapel 1888. There was blood on my pillow again this morning when I awoke. My landlady has already been asking ...

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13 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Heartbeat

Beatirix shuddered as a cold wind whipped across the stage, and she clasped her hat tightly to her head. Stage fright...

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The Teleporter, Part 2

"Hello?" There was nothing on the other end of the line but silence. "Hey, can you here me? Is anyone there?" Martin ...

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the dress

me and my sister have always been fighting. scince the day we could walk we always fought untill now. we were walking...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Sister · Boyfriend · Orchestrate the split

6 stories · started almost 17 years ago
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The Stench of Hair

"You know why girls suddenly change their hairstyles don't you?" He leered over my sister with that gap-toothed smug-...

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Too Young for Love

There was a little girl who loved a boy. It was her first time with a crush on a boy. It was her first time with love...

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Mistaken Intentions

The first time I saw Tommy, I knew he was a total douche. I don't allow my sister to date douches; shit — no brother ...

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Hats

8 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Alex

I don't like hats anymore. My friend from camp always wore a hat, and so did I. We would switch hats sometimes, weari...

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Really? Hats?

Never leave the house looking less than your best. It is this way that we show respect for others (paraphrased from T...

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Others and I.

Sometimes I am shocked at the state of America today. The young people just have not respect - no decency at all. The...

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