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• Princess Mishawaka

  by YodaOnCrack about 1 year ago

  The river cascaded down from countless bodies – Swan Creek, Bear and Fawn River, and the other lesser tributaries. It flowed …

• The Protagonists Have A Plan

  by Nick about 1 year ago

  “Tardis. Doctor Who. Bigger on the inside than the outside. Ring any bells?”

  “Nope,” Blake replied. “But this is all inconse…

• When Happiness Walks Out

  by [pens&feathers] 11 months ago

  Faith touches too few, and Sadness sits by too many.

  Blank expression, there’s a man in the corner who’s met Desperation on …

• Magic's Mark [7]

  by Sophia D'Soleil 11 months ago

  Ritchie hung his head in guilt. A month in the center had not wiped away the responsibility he felt for his mother’s death. ”...

• On Love

  by Ana Cristina 11 months ago

  I believe this—when twin souls meet and their eyes lock for the first time, a kind of spark flares up, invisible to the re…

• The Hallucination

  by SunEyedGirl 11 months ago

  Brenton She thought, what a perfect name for such a perfect soul.
  “Wow today is perfect for the game, don’t you think?”
  ...

• The Visit {mundane object challenge :The Quarter}

  by SKermitgorf 11 months ago

  The elevator was crowded, I held my mother’s hand, my three older brothers would come up on the next elavator with my dad.

  I…

• {Challenge: Mundane Object} Let the Currency Fly

  by THX 0477 11 months ago

  “I hate you! I hate you!” the girl screams as she stands in the corner of the classroom, face red and eyes wild. Ah, the lot …

• Closing Time (Challenge: Mundane Object)

  by Batak Beatrix 11 months ago

  I hate closing time. That last call for all those who have nowhere to go and nothing to lose. I used to pity them, staring mo…

• The Fifteenth

  by Wil Wheaton 11 months ago

  Marten stayed low, and moved down the trench. Plasma beams streaked across the sky above him, a patchwork of colors that woul…

• A Fool's Hope

  by Stoner 11 months ago

  Even from this distance, she was absolutely radiant. The warm sunlight on her face, the soft glow of her reddish-brown hair. ...

• The grass isn't greener on the other side

  by Stoner 11 months ago

• Space Cash {Challenge: mundane object}

  by Amaster 11 months ago

  I heard a snap and then I felt my ears pop. I was told that these two things happening together were the two worst possible t…

• Don't beam me up, Scotty.

  by Stoner 11 months ago

  “So what happened?” He leaned in closer, eyes wide with some demented eagerness that revealed just how new he was.

  “I bolted…

• Converse Sneakers

  by someday_93 11 months ago

  She had drawn a snail on her blue converse sneakers. I knew it wasn’t the most astute reason for wanting to make a friend, bu…

• Whatever Happens Next

  by someday_93 11 months ago

  A young girl sits on the swing of the elementary school playground. No one approaches her; the other children think she is st…

• The Big Kiss

  by Mr Reeses 11 months ago

  The scene of the movie that I was earning for was coming up. Every male in the theater were waiting to kiss the girl as the m…

• No Rats Were Hurt In The Making Of This Story (Although One Or Two Exploded)

  by Mycroft 11 months ago

  Dr. Reinhardt carefully removed a piece of rat skin from his goggles and turned to a new page in his notebook.

  “Important: P…

• Mrs. White Gets A Clue: ( Color story challenge)

  by SKermitgorf 11 months ago

  “Oh ,I didn’t want the rope, I had the rope last time,” complained Mrs. White as she sat disappointed in the lounge.

  “You’r…

• Coming Home

  by [pens&feathers] 11 months ago

  Just when the days start getting colder, I walk the streets I never knew. Behind the library and across the cemetary, where t…

• Drowning

  by someday_93 11 months ago

  I carried the child to the bathroom. “Time for a little tubby, yes, little one?” I said, smiling down at the baby, giving a l…

• Color My World

  by someday_93 11 months ago

  In some ways, a crayon box is like a bunch of kids…

  Red is the kid who’s angry, the one who doesn’t care much.

  Orange is …

• In Every Language

  by someday_93 11 months ago

  Where I live now, none of my classmates speak English. The writing on the blackboard, the text in my books, all is written in…

• Frozen Drops of Light

  by someday_93 11 months ago

  Mom said I would love all the snow in Nevada. Yeah, right. I miss California—there’s never snow there. Mom and my little s…

• Feeling Black

  by BetwINeen 11 months ago

  Today I’m feeling…black.
  I look at my hot pink hair, leftover from my hot pink feeling and decide that today the hot pink h…

• Finally Proud

  by Maybe_Miseryx 11 months ago

  That day, i walked out of that lunchroom proud of who i was. I didnt care what that scale said, i loved myself. For once i…

• Mary

  by Insert Pen Name Here 11 months ago

  The year I went to New York City was the year I stopped talking to Mary. Mary had always been a friend, and adviser. When I w…

• What Got Me Writing, This Time Around

  by THX 0477 11 months ago

  Asleep, of course, I dream I’m on a stage. I know, in the way that you can only know things in a dream, that I’m part of the …

• Confrontation [9]

  by `espressotherapy. 11 months ago

  “10 years. 10 years of nothing. After you blew up like that and then forgot about me and your daughter you just show up? Who …

• {Tiggerstripn2 Challenge}Wild Blue Yonder

  by The Ghost in the Machine 11 months ago

  2 weeks later and im faking credentials to fill in for a guy I hit with a car.Wow.Sounds like a Dane Cook joke.Now, here I …

• The Right Moment

  by Ana Cristina 11 months ago

  She’d been biding her time for a while, waiting for the right moment. It was not easy to wait, because in waiting one couldn’...

• Black {Amaster's Color Challenge}

  by Alexa ♥ 11 months ago

  He was dead. Nothing would ever bring him back.

  It was silly and irrational, but her response was to go to the closet. Upon …

• The Color of Obsession

  by horrorfan13 11 months ago

  Red had always been her favorite color. For as long as she could remember.
  It had all started with a red rubber ball. She co…

• Portrait

  by Ana Cristina 11 months ago

  Every time I tried to take your picture you always moved, so that I wound up capturing only a piece of you: an ear, your left…

• All Because of a Container of Low-Fat Yogurt

  by BetwINeen 11 months ago

  It all started with a container of low fat yogurt.
  Rob had just chucked various brands and kinds of yogurt in the cart, per u…

• X-ray

  by Ana Cristina 11 months ago

  The spareness of bone fills the screen, overwhelming in its naked glare. My eyes riveted to the split in the middle of bone, ...

• Impeccable Timing: A Story of Young Love and the Temptations of a Free Lunch

  by FourSeven 11 months ago

  So Johnny and Sally were walking in the park—

  “Beautiful day isn’t it, sweetie?”

  “Surely it is! Why, the birds chirp and …

• Midnight land

  by Momiji-chan 11 months ago

  I watched the starry sky
  Last night at nine
  I watched all the stars
  Brilliantly shine

  But as I watched the lights
  On and off…

• The Stars

  by Momiji-chan 11 months ago

  A perfect ball of light
  Hanging in the sky
  What a majestic sight
  To meet the eye

  Above the trees
  They will not fall
  Above th…

• Road Kill Stew

  by judee4u2 11 months ago

  “Hello Sandra, what are you and Jim are doing for Thanksgiving?”

  “We don’t have any plans.”

  “Why don’t you come over and ha…

• The Leaving Fog

  by piekid 11 months ago

  Fog always puts me in a bad mood. Especially when I’m driving. This is an all-time low for me, though, because I’m driving fr…

• EYES OF THE NIGHT (1)

  by chuckie 11 months ago

  The shadows of darkness have fallen silently to the ground, not a living soul dare venture out or even make the slightest of …

• Watching from the Window

  by Jenunique 11 months ago

  I pushed my way through a group of Wailers heading for the window. When He came, we all gathered at the windows to watch.

  M…

• Poker Face {post it challenge}

  by Tiggerstripn2 11 months ago

  Jan read the yellow post it note stuck to her office door.
  Three words:
  ” poker”
  “breakroom”
  “noon”
  The cards were d…

• Good Evening Audrey (Audreys First Day part eight)

  by Stephahknee 11 months ago

  Kayla Cutie: Hey girl. Did you like school?
  Audreys Lovley: Yeah you guys are really nice.
  Kayla Cutie: yeah we totally…

• How To Believe

  by Leave Me A Note 11 months ago

  She looked at the stars hidden in the sky high above and shouted to her older step-brother, “Look, a shooting star!” He glanc…

• the snow

  by skylar 11 months ago

  It was snowing and it was snowing hard. It wasnt like one of those planned all week snowstorms it was a spur of the moment on…

• First Dawn

  by Stovohobo 11 months ago

  The subtle silver beams of moonlight caressed the lake’s surface and started to fade as dawn’s first rays ignited. Cassidy gl…

• Underground Tunnel

  by .:band baby:. 11 months ago

  “Come on Sally!” Jack called as he crawled under his deck. “I want to show you this!”

  “But Jack!! I don’t want to get my dre…

• The Arina Four

  by MRay 10 months ago

  “It’s for the good of us all…the ceremony…I mean.” Her son said. “A hero is created by others, as a way to reassure thems…

• A whole new world

  by howhardlifeis♥ 10 months ago

  ”....Overwhelmed?” lindsey said as she looked around to find someone who wasn’t either “completely popular” or “completely do…

• To Serve Man

  by Ben Paddon 10 months ago

  The kettle begins to whistle, and before the sound has a chance to pick up any real volume the droid lifts it off the small g…

• Portrait

  by someday_93 10 months ago

  The sounds of our feet hit the tile floors, echoing as the guide drones on, telling us about each painting. But I am not list…

• The worries of a child

  by Stoner 10 months ago

  Rachel was awakened by the crying of her 4 year old. The clock’s normally soft blue glow was a blinding beacon that burned “2…

• [Abstinence] Channel Surfing

  by MagicEightBall 10 months ago

• Dancing

  by Pat J 10 months ago

  On a hilltop at sunset, they danced one last time. High clouds burned crimson and chromium, and she sang to him:

  _o this is …

• While Strolling... You know (See first comment before reading)

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 10 months ago

  “Ah, what a lovely day for a walk in the park, Cedric.”

  “Yes, yes. Just lovely.”

  “I used to come here as a child, you know….

• Reaching Melanie

  by someday_93 10 months ago

  I look down at the pen in my hand, the poem in front of me. It’s not what I meant to write. I was supposed to be doing an Eng…

• Lofty Lowly Breakfast

  by THX 0477 10 months ago

  “What’d you get?” Don asked lazily.
  Toby tossed down a rumpled, plastic grocery and plopped down beside his brother on the sl…

• Throwing Dreams out the Window

  by [pens&feathers] 10 months ago

  I’m sitting here on the third floor, wishing dreams out the window. I imagine them falling to the ground, almost like snow, a…

• [Mode for Love Challenge] Car Talk

  by Robotech_Master 9 months ago

• Ill timed cabbage

  by Heygabe 9 months ago

  Kevin Adderly was not going to give up on his punchline.
  He’d invested too much to get to this point. He was so near the pay-...

• Out Of the Shadows & Fog {Vampire Challenge}

  by SKermitgorf 9 months ago

  The mangy gray dog came out of the fog with stealth.
  I was startled at first and jumped back with trepidation.

  The haggard h…

• The Voyage Home

  by Ben Paddon 9 months ago

• How to Lose Two Women Instead of Just One

  by Eckhouse 9 months ago

  “Why does she still see him? It can’t be anything more than physical.”

  “She has power over him. There’s always a glassy mix …

• Snow (A House with a Red Front Door)

  by [pens&feathers] 9 months ago

  I wake up, and it’s snowing.

  But it isn’t the sort of ferocious snow that whips against your windows with a vengance. The k…

• A dog's life

  by Bartimaeus 9 months ago

  I looked up at the boy, who was holding something attatched to my neck.
  where am i?
  The last thing I remember was sitting i…

• Still Innocent

  by Ana Cristina 8 months ago

  I can still hear the jingle of your collar, the click of your nails on the tile floor.

  It has been three days since you left…

• Not Like I Planned

  by KasumiRose 8 months ago

  And it’s not like I planned. It’s nothing like I planned- or hoped. You’re so far away even though you’re right here. Right n…

• Anger Rising

  by Nouvelle Bardot 7 months ago

  Before I knew it, Sunday was already on its way out the door. I had spent most of the weekend up in the attic unpacking, and …

• Psychic Readings

  by Ana Cristina 7 months ago

  “C’mon, it’ll be fun,” Marisa said, tugging on Jason’s sleeve.

  “If you say so,” he muttered. The business sat in between a l…

• Letters to Amberly: Wake Up

  by Nouvelle Bardot 7 months ago

  Dear Amberly,

  I’m in a diner this morning, sucking down coffee as if I was going to die tommorow and I’m mulling ever so bor…

• Letters to Amberly: Matt's Note

  by Nouvelle Bardot 7 months ago

  FROM THE DESK OF Kingsley Kingston

  Matt,

  Your phone bill is $345, please stop calling that prostitute phone service in…

• Letters to Amberly: Matt's Warning

  by Nouvelle Bardot 7 months ago

  FROM THE DESK OF Kingsley Kingston

  Matt,

  We’re still out of milk. I’m out right now, scouting out some bars for the ba…

• Something I Need to Tell you

  by SKermitgorf 6 months ago

  “Dad, there’s something I need to tell you.”

  “Oh, what is it son? Could you pass the chips please.”

  “Sure dad, here you go….

• The Secret of the Deep

  by thebetweenspace 6 months ago

  The view from my beach house was simply breathtaking, the ocean crystal clear, the tide gently ebbing and flowing. It was alm…

• Do I or do I Not? (200th Ficlet Challenge)

  by Blusparrow 6 months ago

  I hate him!

  Oh no, you know you love him.

  That is ridiculous! He is a complete idiot!

  _I think he is funny and cute. If …

• Inner Thoughts of a Park Bench [Living descriptions challenge]

  by invisibility_disability 6 months ago

  I was sitting in my usual place by the side of the path, and I was a little angry that day. People had been sitting on me and…

• Misguided Rain

  by Nouvelle Bardot 6 months ago

  The rain is falling-
  upside down
  falling up, from the muddy
  grass, the dark pavement
  under my feet
  like a reflection gone
  aw…

• Ogres Don't Just Exist in Fairy Tales

  by Ryan Earle 6 months ago

  “I WILL DESTROY YOU!” the ogre like man bellowed.

  Charlie ran as fast he could, his only advantage was his size, small ev…

• upsidewards chapter 1

  by JP 6 months ago

  It all started backwards and upside down. If thats even possible i mean. see, i never wanted trouble. not once.I wasnt like t…

• Upsidewards Chapter 2

  by JP 6 months ago

  i tried to tell my parents abou tthe whole stalker thing, but the conversations didnt exatly work. i love my parents and all,...

• Upsidewards Chapter 8

  by JP 6 months ago

  My own big brothers, my idols. the boys who had kept bullies afar and thuroughly interrogated every boy i brought home. the t…

• the stepping stones of life - part 2

  by happy_smiley_face 6 months ago

• The Perils of Whimsy

  by Acantha 6 months ago

  “Did you ever notice,” she said, “that this street has two names?”

  “That so?” I glanced toward her.

  She stopped halfway up …

• "O, Most Dearest and Understanding Diary..." (OTOC's Diary Challenge)

  by Stovohobo 5 months ago

  O Most Dearest and Understanding Diary,

  _Today, the mistress has left for her sabbatical to France. Being the lovely, roma…

• Synesthesia

  by Valley Fey/Pinprick 5 months ago

  French horns sound like
  Purple and blue
  Tangoing across my eyes
  Ska sounds like
  Green and red
  Rippling round my head
  Metal s…

• (Brebelle's Challenge) Cherry Inflation Migration (Nonsense Time!)

  by Valley Fey/Pinprick 5 months ago

  Sip the tea, biting gently… It’s afraid of you. Do not forget that dragons invented you, to fight with platypuses in identi…

• Hope (Invisible Challenge)

  by Trann 5 months ago

  The conversation on the repair line was always the same: stories of Class Fivers being given a shot on the surface. It was ne…

• Got To Catch Them All

  by Acantha 5 months ago

  The monster rustled his lips and smiled toothily. “That hit the spot.”

  “I hope so. Do you know how long it took me to find o…

• The Initation of The Corporation, Inc.

  by Klapaucius 4 months ago

  He regained consciousness in a chair. The room was cold, wherever he was, and he was completely blind.
  “I can’t see!” he crie…