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The Dance Changes

Anson ran another search through the computer, searching for Bruce for the umpteenth time. Where was he?
Where was he?
Sh…
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loneliness

i feel alone in this world,
all by myself.maybe it’s just me,
or maybe, i really am all alone.but sometimes, i get this l…
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What's That You Say? Althaiophobia? That Sounds Absurd!

I’m afraid, so far, I have been very unlucky in love.
It’s not that I’m not pretty or that I don’t have a good personality – ... -
For Me There is No End
I don’t want to be around when everyone dies. I don’t want to stand here and watch while everyone burns but me. I don’t want …
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Tough to be "You": A Promise to Myself
It’s tough to be “you”
when everyone around you is “them”—you’re different—
you’d gladly walk in public wearing pajamas… -
It's In the Eyes

“They’re here,” he whispered, his bloodshot eyes darting around the dingy subway station. “They’re among you, all of you.”
T…
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Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Barbie, and..

We all know the stories about Britney Spears, Barbie, and Paris Hilton.
But what you don’t know is this: the REAL story.
We…
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Beautiful on the Inside
You’re an average girl on the outside—
Prettier than some, uglier than most,A better figure than some, worse than others
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Stirring Up Trouble

“Anyway guys, this is Kayla.”
They put out their hands to shake, and they look at me oddly as I just wave to them.
Just bec…
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Dear Gossip Girl: I Wanna Be Generally Unhealthy

*Dear Gossip Girl: My husband won’t let me perform my nightly ritual of watching ET with a gallon of rocky road ice cream by …
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Unconditional Love

Her tiny eye’s blink trying to focus.
Her wrinkled soft pink skin untouched by sunlight.Cast into this world without a ca…
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AD 2029: Legacy of Humans

The meteor struck with enough force to destroy all of humanity. All human life disappeared in the giant impact, and in their …
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A Confrontation With The Red

I watch as they crowd around. The instruments they use and the struggle she puts up. I discuss her future with the doctor. I …
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When Happiness Walks Out
Faith touches too few, and Sadness sits by too many.
Blank expression, there’s a man in the corner who’s met Desperation on …
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Remembering Happiness

I sat and studied this photo. I liked it. Not just because the color and lighting was phenomenal, but because it was me. Well…
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She and I
I can hear her sigh softly as she caresses me. I curse myself—how embarrassing it was for me to have such flaky skin, of a…
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Don't Hate Cuz Rap's Better Den Yo Crap! [take tht kermitgorf] PikaPikaPikaPikaPikaPOW Word.

I can’t believe I actually had to bring up iTunes to remember what I had on there.
I would’ve put Linkin Park as my whole lis… -
10 songs (Mostly by Fall Out Boy)

1. Camisado – Panic! At The Disco
2. Grand Theft Autumn – Fall Out Boy
3. Teenagers – My Chemical Romance
4. Misery Business-... -
This Is Fo All U Hata's Who Is Dissin My List Fo Havin Rap. So Here's The Lyrics To A Hip-Hop Song About Hip-Hop By KJ-52. He Even Agrees With You Guys.

Hey everybody won’t you look at me now,
I’m on VH1 they got me on the countdown!
Got a phone call that’s how I found out
I’m … -
Ghostly Street Art
“Oh, what a night,” Brian Kay chortled, sprinkling his friends with eroded sediment of Milky Way and Snickers. “I mean, when …
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My 10

Here it goes:
1. Face Down
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
2. Girlfriend
Avril Lavigne
3. Lip Gloss
Lil Momma
4. I Miss You
Avril… -
On Autumn
The air is cool, clean in the wake of rain
Gray sky hangs too close for comfort
As the leaves finally reveal to us their true… -
OTOC: Giving Up.
For reasons of which you do NOT need to know, OTOC is officially giving up on the high and mighty challenge of beating Stov…
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First Real Friend.

Somebody actually cares? I think, astounded.
“Please, come out.” she repeats.
If it’s a teacher, I swear..
But thankfu…
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The Tunnel

I raced up the stairs, pulling James along. He was really out of it. What is his problem?? I was so hyped on adrenaline I…
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The Funniest Man in the World
One day, The Funniest Man in the World was walking down the street. Everywhere he went, people laughed. The sun was shining. ...
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The Others

I sat up my hand raced to retrive my flashlight.
The fog momentarily cleared in front of me;
what was one is now a pack.
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Snapshot: Bridget

Bridget plopped down on the hidden chair beneath the four-leaf-clover patterned counter and pulled out a battered copy of _De…
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Careful what you ask for {i can't wait 'til freakin' 50 ficlets challenge}

“Parus sed Potens,” Sam remarked while holding up a 4-leaf clover.
Larry peeked over his book, “Come again?”
“It means ’s…
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What Goes Around Comes Around {Shoulda Coulda Woulda challenge}

“Move Stacy! I want those tickets.” Billy said pushing me, like he always does.
“Ow!” I screamed as I fell on the wet grass y… -
Shamrock Inn {scw(bd)ow challenge}

Chicago, the “Fall Out Boy’s” concert, Dawn # 1 fan couldn’t wait.
She bought their ticket’s online but didn’t book a room… -
Life-changing Actions II

That day changed my life in many ways. One, I haven’t been picked on anymore. Two, I found the love of my life. His name is …
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Happiness Over [scw(bd)ow's challenge]

I lay down in my room, and begin reading The Wedding Planner’s Daughter. After meerly a few pages of reading, the storyline…
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Poster Girl

Jolinda tacked up her new poster of her four favorite guys in the world. Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Andrew Hurley and Joe Tro…
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Band Luck {scw(bd)ow challenge}

”#&%* off!” I screamed, throwing the tire iron and sucking on my bloody knuckles. The tire iron clanged off the highway and t…
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What's A Minute?

What’s a minute, really? In a minute, in sixty seconds, you can ruin my life, or make it whole again. You can rip open wounds…
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Maybe_Miseryx's New Christmas Challenge
I’ve got a new challenge for you. It’s not hard, not too hard. the challenge is, you have to write an autobiography ficlet a…
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Adventures in Reading {Shoulda Coulda Woulda Challenge}

The drummer of the band, Fall Out Boy was reading Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer.
This was reading number seven (7…
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"I've come to face myself, in a staring contest in the mirror"...

...”Where there is more chance of victory, than in a argument with you.”
He stood there staring, reflections of the day …
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My Shoes

There they were. I see them. Exactly the pair of shoes I’ve been looking all over town for. I walk towards them casually. Ano…
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Clover High: The Boiler Room

That was the sound of the cafeteria windows shattering. Students fled screaming in all directions. Snap apparently had a dest…
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Dumb Jocks

What am I suppose to do in study hall on the first day of school???
I took my planner and gossip girl book out of my locker…
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Grandmas Love

Olivia sat in her grandmas lap as the rocking chair moved the pair back and forth. Her grandmas old hands ran throgh her hair…
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Summerdale at Twilight

I see lost souls in the twilight grasses of Summerdale, Alabama. The clusters of light dot the fields like fireflies, stretch…
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Overdose
The rhythm is pounding, pounding, pounding.
A million writhing bodies, bathed in pulsating greens and purples, move wildly b…
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Nightmare at Sea

They say eternity begins and ends with the ocean’s tides.
And that is where I find myself, cabin boy on a Caribbean voyage t…
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Goin' Out, Goin' Out Tonight

Rolling down Route 7 with the top down Carl and Emmit grinned into the roaring wind. The world was their oyster, the city the…
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My Life in Metaphors

My life.
That’s what the scene reminded me of. A bumpy trail all bathed in blue light from the sky and snow and falling dayt…
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In Loving Memory (My Sister in My Heart)
A Tribute to a Loved One
Lora Pacheco
December 11th, 2007
8:27P.MLora is a close friend, who as of the date & time menti…
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I've Come This Far
I’m the sentimental type. I look back and I think and I sigh with regret or peace or sorrow. I look at my life like a play, a…
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The End of Summer

The end of summer.
What a sad thought. All through June and July I’d lolled around the house, gone on lazy bike rides, and…
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Liking What I See
“Old-fashioned beauty,” my aunt said.
I raise an eyebrow loftily and glance in the mirror. My face is round, my skin clear a…
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My Mind, In a Way

My mind kind of looked like this place. Angela agreed, when I told her. But she thought my mind would look sunshiney.
Angela…
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Absolutely Beautiful

Nobody likes November. “It’s cold and wet,” Lulu says.
“It’s dull and it’s freezing. Especially here in Minnesota.”I don…
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Who Am I? (Color Challenge)

O beautiful, for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain.
For purple mountain majesties,
Above the fruited plain!R…
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Questions for Answers

I’m glad we could sit down and have this talk. I’m worried about you. Life in those teenage years can be rough, and, well, it…
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5 things I've never told anyone

What do I keep to myself… why??
1. I’m more fragile than you think.
I may hide my feelings, but I cry just like everyone …
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5 Things I've Never Told Anybody.

1.) I’m deathly afraid of doing something wrong. ex. When I was getting a C in science, my teacher pulled me over and talked …
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Eternal Eclipse

The sky was always gray, nothing but it. Day and night was all the same and I was beggingin to think that it would never come…
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OTOC's 200th Ficlet - Easiest Challenge Ever? Maybe!
Shhhh, yeah you, c’m ‘ere. SHH!!! Nobody can know..
- yells * THAT I’VE REACHED MY 200TH FICLET!
So! In honor of my 200 fic…
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Watching her Fly

She wanted to fly.
And as the lights dim in the packed theater, I watch as she spreads her wings.
The first few notes fill …
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Ode to Colors
I sat my sister on my knee
and she began to sing to me.
“Emma dear,” she sweetly said,
“Are you fond of the color red?”“Jul…
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5 Things That You Never Knew About Stovohobo (You Know What? 6 Just for the Sake of Non-Conformity)

1. I love my friends, but sometimes they can get on my nerves. For example (names are changed. I am Fransisco [cuz it’s an am…
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5 Things That You Never Knew About Stovohobo (You Know What? 6 Just for the Sake of Non-Conformity) Cont'd

4. I can’t stand horror movies. I’m fine with getting scared or surprised, but it’s the nightmares and insomnia that might pl…
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200 posted comments= my first challenge!
Yay! I’ve posted 200 comments! You know what that means right? Challenge! My first challenge! I know most of you are probabl…
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One Life to Live

No jokes, no threats, no false pretenses
Just one life to life right here and now
You’ll wonder why, but don’t you cry
Just k… -
Why I Even Tried

Oh, lonely day
Quiet day
Some times to myself
to think and say:Now it’s over, now it’s fading
like the sunset in the dist… -
an inspirational quiz: answerd entirely by Insert Pen Name Here, who rocks.

1. “Crank Dat? Excuse me? Ahem: OF COURSE”
2. Nastiest thing….once when i was bike riding, a bug flew into my mouth and dow… -
Wake Up and Smell Today
Anger won’t make you see reason
And Hope doesn’t always fulfill.
Right now, it’s not Faith’s season
and hot, wet tears threat… -
When I Wake Up

I felt it when he died. I was lying on the road along with the glass and the remains of our rear view mirror. Evan knew he wa…
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The Answers From Me (Howhardlifeis's Challenge)

1. BLUE!!!
2. This is so tough. It use to be Gilmore Girls, but that is over now, and I love way too many other shows tha… -
That's your car!?

I packed up, slipped on my jacket, and headed out to wait for Macy.
I sat on the hard stone rail, and watched crowds of peopl… -
Hot on Cold

SHE LOVES THE WAY THAT I TEASE, I LOVE THE WAY THAT SHE BREATHS!
I still had the lyrics stuck in my head as we turned a cor… -
An Anonymous Tip

Mr. Massegiller stepped out of his office, shined shoes squeaking on the tiles. “Hello, Vera, anything new?” he asked as he g…
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Life Was Normal
Life was normal, my love for her was unending. Her red hair and green eyes. How I was lucky enough to have her as my wife, I’...
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She REALLY doesn't like you

“Garret! Can you come down here a minute!?” My Mom’s voice rang through the house and up to my room
“Ok!” I called back as I … -
Stump the Stovo! Answers #1

Saint chuck: What is the total combined length of all the bridges in Venice?
Let the total combined length of bridges in Ve… -
Nonconformist Conformity (or, Do You Like My New Tattoo?) [six word challenge]

I’m different.
Just like everybody else.
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Stump the Stovo! Answers #3

Overlooked_Merchandise:
1.Why can’t us women put on masscara with our mouth closed?2. What is the orgin of a waffle?
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Can You Spot the Hidden Message?
so i have finally Reached 150 ficlets =) actually passed it, which would be the thrid time i have passEd the so called ‘Mark….
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My Music

I like…..
1.Fall out boy
2 . Panic at the disco
3.The Acacdemy is…
4Shiny Toy guns
5 The Red jumpsuit Apparatus
6 My chem… -
Ficletty Goodness (Or, My Ficlets Journey)

Oh, Ficlets, where to begin?
I was almost creative one night on the beach. I was trapped inside several dreams – some real, ...
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Never Explain

There will always be the question, Why is ther eveil?, and I’ve heard many answers. But, why is it that you only here about b…
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Quiet
I silently ate my dinner.
“Tyler?” My Dad asked. “You seem pretty quiet, did anything happen at school today?”
_I’m always th… -
Can't Take It Away
you can take away my riches
you can take away my pearls
but no matter how hard you try
you can’t take away my world.‘cause …
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School

I woke up to my alarm clock, and pushed the snooze button with expert precision.
Just five more minutes….
Fell asleep jus… -
Dance
Dance, beauty -
fling your arms up to the roof of the world -
and your slippered nimble feet, they flash
like mirrors slive… -
kiss

When I went onto the field someone
screamed into my ear,
kicked my shin,
jumped on my toe,
after all that for some reason… -
Pens' Ten

My List of Ten Things
1. Join Habitat for Humanity.
2. Learn more about Quantum Physics.
3. Donate blood.
4. Read as ma…
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Gravitiy

People will never know why I do what I do.
I don’t do it for the thrills.
I don’t do it for the money.
I don’t do it for t…
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A Brief Bout of Multiple Personality Disorder Forces Stovohobo Into Writing This Rather Boring and Drab Ficlet for an Exceedingly More Creative Challenge

Your life sucks.
Um…excuse me?
Well, fine… our life sucks.
And, uh, why would you say that?
_Oh, c’mon. You stare a…
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Oh, Cassie...[apology challenge]

This is just to say, I wonder what you would have looked like. You would have been fifteen today, did you know that? No girl …
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Party Plans

“Soooo, does that mean you could come with Scarlet, the boys, and me to a party tomorrow night?” He asked, shaking the hair f…
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Let Him Be Okay

Dallas didn’t say much, but I knew she was worried.
Dallas was the strong one, the twin who knew how to cheer me up and cal…
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On Summer
Light piano treads softly
over the fading remnants
of our deep summer skies,
calling us back into
blue days and purple nights… -
Overlooked_Merchandise's Long and Tiring Day ((Name Challenge))

She lays on her bed with her iPod blasting “Our Song” By Taylor Swift and reading the book Twilight for the billionth tim…
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Simple Plan

Jared, carrying his canvas bag, pushes through the bank door, Britney a step behind.
Jared walks up to the teller, hands her…
