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  • Story 14 Inspired by text

    He took her into the woods and showed her all the wonders of nature that day. They talked of birds and creeks, trees and book…

  • story 13 Inspired by text

    Josh knew she would go in two days.. Soon she would be an automaton the same as the others.

    Josh filtered through the lette…

  • story 12 Mature Inspired by text

  • Story 11 Inspired by text

    It had been the ‘bots’ on that fateful day that had him plummeting to the bottom of a river to escape and he had seen the ‘bo…

  • story 10 Inspired by text

    “They will find out about you.. about us.. if you continue this friendship.”, his father warned.

    Josh flicked through the le…

  • Story 9 Inspired by text

    Children were given connects at 10 which allowed the computers direct access to the child’s brain. Politics had always had a …

  • Story 8 Inspired by text

    Things got more difficult as she got closer to 10, the age of teaching. Josh’s father had found out about their friendship an…

  • Story 7 Inspired by text

    The first letter from her fell from his weathered hand to land on the floor at his feet. It seemed so fragile there, a taste …

  • Story 6 Inspired by text

    It was a few days later that the desire to talk with his playmate overcame his sense of how close he had come to death and he…

  • Story 5 Inspired by text

    It was as though he had suddenly become the deer rather than the archer and, feeling that fear, he knew he had to move now. C…

  • Story 4 Inspired by text

    The next week had been one of delight and torment for Josh. The conversations with the little girl had been ones of explorati…

  • story 3 Inspired by text

    “Who are you?”, she had asked in a calm manner.

    Josh had been surprised with that, as his heart was racing a million miles a…

  • story 2 Inspired by text

    Letters drifted from the pile, some read carefully, some falling like crisp dying leaves to the floor. He remembered when eac…

  • A story

    Josh slowly approached the cabin. Snow hugged the shadows, remnants of the last cold winter. Trees surrounded the building, c…

  • Home at last - and asleep Inspired by text

    Jocinda looked from the mice to the fish, then turned toward the ladder in the corner of the room and made her way up out of …

  • Origin of the cookie Inspired by text

    “And let me guess.. ”, Jocinda stated, sarcasm dripping from every word, “the Florians see this huge planet of milk and, bein…

  • Where the cookie came from Inspired by text

    “You passed them?”, Jocinda asked, trying to get the mice back on track.

    “Yes.”, said Flandip. “You see, we used a gas-power…

  • still working on it.. :) Inspired by text

    Tobin and Flandip shook their heads slowly.

    “Jocinda, you are not thinking in context of 5 billion years… on a planet… ...

  • a life found? Inspired by text

    She lay looking at the ceiling of her room. Wallpaper, as old as she was and gradually abandoning the wall, hung down in stra…

  • resurrection of a beloved man Inspired by text

    Connie Chung: I am sensing a recurring motif here involving your crucifixion. Is there something you want to talk about?

    Jes…

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