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• (Brebelles Challenge) : The Little Planet that Couldn't

  by Steve Fairweather 1 minute ago

  Pluto was always late.

  To be fair, he did have the farthest to travel but sometimes Neptune strayed a bit yet always managed…

• Pirates!

  by smarty101 11 minutes ago

  I grasped the handle of my cutlass tightly. I knew someone was just around the corner. I sensed it. I held my breath as I cam…

• Star Wars: Dueling Heroes

  by thebetweenspace 14 minutes ago

  “Which one of you bozos decided it was a good idea to blow up my ship!?” Han Solo asked through gritted teeth.

  The heroes ea…

• REAL STORY NO JOKE BY ME!!!!!!@!@!@!!

  by DARK 17 minutes ago

  There was shooting all around. Untill!!!!! He came. He was soooooooooooooo sooooo good. He shot blasted and killed everyone! ...

• One Minute View

  by agenda-b 20 minutes ago

  Ka-ching. Clack. Tic-tic-tic-tic…

  I love these things. Twenty-five cents, exact change, and you get a magnified view of ev…

• another great story by me!!

  by DARK 22 minutes ago

  This was it! Are you ready viewers??!???!

  Okay here i go, im ready, yeas i am.

  cough cough srry

  okay n…

• She's Reading Sandman!

  by Browncoatben 34 minutes ago

  “Excuse me. Can I ask you a question?” Casey asked the girl in the blue hat. He’d been watching her for three stops now.

  The…

• He Only Appears In The Moonlight

  by The Unnamable 43 minutes ago

  Red splattered across the graph-like neck of Mooney’s acoustic guitar. What calluses his fingers had been armored with had lo…

• Paying The Price

  by John Perkins about 1 hour ago

  I took the long way home, intentionally avoiding the highway. I needed time to think and find a way to break the news to Ange…

• Death to the Innocents

  by Stovohobo about 1 hour ago

  8/6/45
  Hiroshima, Japan

  The child watched as his mother raced for him from the other end of the street, her skin seared from…

• A Declaration of Dragons

  by Acantha about 1 hour ago

  “It is a dragon sky today,” the Child pronounced, sipping her tea with purpose. Across the table, Memory raised one immaculat…

• Searching for eldorado and eating endangered species.

  by trifalmadorian_gameshowhost about 1 hour ago

  “The tapir huh?”

  “They are slow and fat and taste like chicken bacon.”

  “Aren’t they an endangered species?”

  “Besides bein…

• Stars Wars: Fully Loaded

  by thebetweenspace about 1 hour ago

  “Where exactly are we?” Scott asked.

  “The armory,” Jesus answered.

  “Weird, it was,” Yoda admitted. “One second, there;...

• You know!

  by Rhine Stone Cowboy about 1 hour ago

  In the morning I awoke to a startling voice…it kept repeating…..Thespians hate pink dolphins…

• Seeking Forgiveness

  by Steve Fairweather about 1 hour ago

  Each day that passed after that fateful moment was an empty void where once such beauty could have filled. It was hard for hi…

• Gramps and His Memory

  by THX 0477 about 1 hour ago

  “Freshen that up for ya, Dennis?” The waitress was loud, too loud for mid-afternoon. Dennis sighed when he realized he was ol…

• Orlando Comforts Lynde

  by One Time, One Chance about 2 hours ago

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  xxbeachbabexx: n2m, got ina realli big arguement w/ my bf…

• Cassie

  by Lee Braiden about 2 hours ago

  She was always doing things like that: writing stories, and denying she’d done it; singing songs, and claiming to only hum a …

• Star Wars: A Powerful Obsession

  by thebetweenspace about 2 hours ago

  It may have been all those repressed feelings towards Leia guiding him, or it may have been the beautiful, if not forward, yo…

• A Simple Smile Can Brighten A Day (3&&TheEnd)

  by One Time, One Chance about 2 hours ago

  The little girl with the kitten had a subject to talk about, and she never hesitated to talk to anybody about it. She called …

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• New Shampoo?

  by Phil Sporlan 2 months ago

  Michael gets to work. Thoughts of his first day at the gym still running through his head.

  “What a mess I am.” He thinks

  Q…

• Twilight Challange(140) {CLICK THE BUTTON!!! DOOO ITTTT!!!!}

  by Sailor Emo 11 days ago

  Chaaaallllaaaaannngggeeeee
  So here’s the thing. I haven’t done a challange in a while so I figured why not? AND this ficlet…

• The Remarkable Yo-Yo

  by Ax 2 days ago

  The yo-yo arrived while his parents were at work, as he knew it would. That morning he’d kissed his mother on the cheek, wave…

• A Godawful Small Affair

  by Wil Wheaton 3 months ago

  “I want to move to Mars, and open up a bar,” Gregor said.

  Matti inhaled deeply, and let a cloud of pale blue smoke surround …

• Naked Male Insecurity

  by Ana Cristina 13 days ago

  Suddenly, Mendez and Tom were throwing punches at me. Jodi had thrust me right into the thick of it. She stood to the side,...

• Joey and Sparks, part 2

  by l.m.orchard 11 months ago

• "This Is Just To Say..." [The Apology Challenge]

  by Ana Cristina 19 days ago

  NPR ran a program today about the William Carlos Williams poem, “This Is Just To Say,” and had people reading their own versi…

• All Hail the King [Louise Madison's Hear Ye Challenge]

  by THX 0477 4 days ago

  “ALL HAIL THE KING!”

  And so they did, in echoing waves of adulation. The cry was taken up again and again, all the way fro…

• Forrest Gump On Speed (Nightmaiden's Déjà Vu Challenge)

  by thebetweenspace 7 days ago

  A dark night, lit only by the street light that was sporadic at best. Well, at least it was lately. After the ‘twins of terro…

• Quiet Disdain

  by Misfit Dreams 1 day ago

  She knows how he sees her. She sees it in his eyes every time she looks at him. That dismissive way he seems to look right th…

• They Don't Come Out at Night

  by Wil Wheaton 6 months ago

  You know the well has to be close, but your lantern only makes the fog harder to penetrate.

  You know there’s nothing but ope…

• The Randomness Must Go On

  by Tad Winslow 5 days ago

  I opened the door and was greeted by the Cleveland Browns, that’s right, the entire team. Forty plus players rumbled into my …

• Star Wars: A Newer Hope

  by thebetweenspace 4 days ago

  “We’re like the goddang breakfast club!” Roland, the gunslinger said.

  “What exactly brings us together?” Buffy the vampire s…

• Grand Prize -- 2nd & 3rd (Pen Name Challenge Wrap-up)

  by Tad Winslow 3 days ago

  3rd Place —-—-—-—-——> MELIA

  She wrote a realistic slice of Wil Wheaton’s life. Check it out Wil and comm…

• Consequences

  by Ana Cristina 4 days ago

  In the meantime it looked like one of the maids would have to relay the message to Lord Windham after all. I’d deal with the …

• The Box

  by Louise Madison 1 day ago

  “Wait, what?” he asked, completely dumbfounded. Taking advantage of his stun, the walks over, and listens to hear that the ph…

• Self Knows Self

  by l.m.orchard 10 months ago

  I sat at a bus stop a few blocks from my old apartment, waiting. I’d fended off a handful of half-hearted self-assassination …

• Shiny Mudballs

  by l.m.orchard 11 months ago

  The pair boosted forward into the asteroid’s single inset airlock, pulling a cargo sled behind them. It eased into the habita…

• What In the World is it All About??

  by Kermitgorf 5 days ago

  I paid the Cleveland Browns their wages for housework, they took with them the now figure skating penguins.

  As they were lea…

• It Moves From the Left

  by Tony Mannor 1 day ago

  His fingers deftly placed each shard of glass on to the round metal disc. He didn’t know the man who sat to his left, humming…