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• Journal of the Insane (Post #14 pt. 2)

  by Dementedsoul 32 minutes ago

• Journal of the Insane (Post #14 pt. 1)

  by Dementedsoul about 1 hour ago

• Coffee

  by wytherwings about 1 hour ago

  “Let’s go. let’s just, go.” He was smiling, his eyes said he was desperate, pleading, and reckless.

  “What? Stephen- be serio…

• of fireflies and comets

  by black dog 724 about 2 hours ago

  i wander down the street, bare feet hitting the asphalt, still warm from the baking heat of the sun
  as the lights behind me f…

• Bringing It Back Up

  by Just another writer about 3 hours ago

  Jack smiled.

  “But seriously Jack, nothing you plan on doing is going to solve anything,” Anna said pulling away from him.
  “A…

• Daddy

  by CrescentDreams about 3 hours ago

  I am lost in dreams of the past.
  I wonder what you might think of where, who, what I am today.
  I hear your voice telling me l…

• As Delightful

  by Just another writer about 3 hours ago

  Jack looked down in surprise, but Taylor was already looking at him smiling from ear to ear. Jack looked back at Anna and she…

• Who's Jack?

  by Just another writer about 3 hours ago

  The rest of the workday went on easy because neither Jack or Anna brought up the subject. They had to leave earlier now to go…

• Tried to Make Pat J's Day [Make Someone's Day Challenge]

  by CrescentDreams about 4 hours ago

  This seemed like a really neat challenge to me. I’ve been here a while but tend to lurk, and the idea of comments, prequels a…

• Daydreamin In Class

  by Mr Reeses about 4 hours ago

  My professor just caught me daydreamin
  She snapped her fingers twice
  & gave me a look not so nice
  She directed me to stand
  F…

• Death Receives a Request

  by Ana Cristina about 4 hours ago

  I went to slide down the banister as I always did but then decided to take the stairs. Why not. I could feel the surge of reb…

• Rain

  by Just another writer about 4 hours ago

  She suddenly felt rain drops on her face. She hadn’t noticed the darkening clouds overhead. She didn’t care though, infact sh…

• Something borrowed

  by CrescentDreams about 4 hours ago

  I felt it slide – too sugary sweet, like wedding cake frosting – down my throat and grimaced.

  I waited. Listening, being in…

• A Bed of Fear

  by Laine P. Grey about 4 hours ago

  Burtininkas smiled curtly. “Ms. Thomas, that was some stunt you pulled.”
  Wednesday flashed a twin smile. “Thank you, I’ve a…

• Death Calls on a Miracle

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) about 4 hours ago

  I took her to the back of an old spot I knew of, dragged out an old mattress, & set the girl down gently. I watched her ragge…

• How are the INTERNETS gonna know what I'm up to? - Nerdcore

  by Ben Paddon about 5 hours ago

  I go from Ficlets to Flickr to Twitter, quite fast, no, quicker.
  They’re like Liquor, I go for too long without some and I qu…

• Death Distraught By an Angel

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) about 5 hours ago

  But before I could step down from my place, I was whisked across the river to an alley behind a seedy resturaunt. Crouching i…

• Staple it Together

  by Laine P. Grey about 5 hours ago

  Sigourney propelled herself through the front door. “Tasha?” she called. “Are you still here?”
  Tasha elbowed her out of the w…

• Strange Calming Effects

  by Mask By The Moon about 5 hours ago

  Mikki stared at the blank sheet of notebook paper, not bothering to reach for the pen or pencil or… anything. She just star…

• Lost

  by Bartimaeus about 6 hours ago

  There is a boy, lying on his bed.
  This boy is trying not to feel dead.
  But it isn’t working, just like last time.
  The darknes…

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  by Trafalmadorian_RabbleRouser 5 days ago

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  by Trafalmadorian_RabbleRouser 1 day ago

  “Maybe that stuff works in dirty dancing reruns, but not here sister” trumped Mask By The Moon as the eleven year old pint-si…

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  by Ben Paddon 4 days ago

  He dragged himself into the room, carefully shutting the door behind him, and dropped himself down onto the couch. It was lat…

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  by Trafalmadorian_RabbleRouser 1 day ago

  For a split second the futuristic ficlet fisticuffs frenzied to a final furious confrontation, and then….
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• Finishing The Beasts

  by RainDance 6 days ago

  Frank cautiously poked at the strange creature and then lifted it by the scruff of it’s neck. I watched as he walked down the…

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  by Bartimaeus 3 days ago

  I sighed, having been pushed enough toward my breaking point as it was. But no, he simply had to demand more, to get as muc…

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  by Trafalmadorian_RabbleRouser 8 days ago

  Behind his shiny metal face, John’s voice sounded like Darth Vader the chipmunk. He hadn’t quite tweaked the new voice box ho…

• Teenage Word Dictionary 2008

  by Lone Writer 9 days ago

  Random – Behaving in a strange way or saying something completely off subject
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• Teenage Word/Phrase Dictionary

  by ficus 9 days ago

  Great-Meaning wonderful, great in size, notable, etc…
  EX: That’s great! (I say this all the time.)

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  by Smile4life! 3 days ago

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• Meanwhile, in D.C.… or: A Brief History Lesson to Straighten Things Out

  by Stovohobo 1 day ago

  Oval Office
  1300 hours

  “Mr. President, sir, we have a video you might like to see. Seems that that one vigilante group o…

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  by John Perkins about 1 month ago

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  by Trafalmadorian_RabbleRouser 13 days ago

  The flying sand ground everything down to a mirrored polish in the wasteland known as the great St.Louis desert.
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