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Stories posted 10/16/2007

• Amaster's Playlist

  by Amaster 12 months ago

  1. Melancholy Man, The Moody Blues

  2. Caprice No. 9 en Do Majeur, Angele Dubeau

  3. Foxhunters, James Curran

  4. Pictures of…

• And you will know us by the trail of deadpan

  by m8ryx 12 months ago

  Couldn’t do a list, so I stashed 24 band names off my iTunes in the story below.

  I was feeling mighty sublime on beer and e…

• A Night on Mullbury Street

  by NexusDivine 12 months ago

  Fog always puts me in a bad mood. But tonight was especially foggy, as they usually are when I’m already in a bad mood.

  I wa…

• An Eclectic Mix of Music [Challenge]

  by artistsrunwild 12 months ago

• Gold Lion's Gonna Tell Him

  by artistsrunwild 12 months ago

• Romeo's Day P6 (The Wedding Series) LA Series

  by Mr Reeses 12 months ago

  Dewayne and Laura Ann were walking alongside the courtyard again.
  “I just told Sabrina to meet me on the bridge okay, I wanna…

• Romeo's Day P7 (The Wedding Series) LA Series

  by Mr Reeses 12 months ago

• Romeo's Day P8 (The Wedding Series) LA Series

  by Mr Reeses 12 months ago

• Life of the Party

  by THX 0477 12 months ago

  If you could only see me now. Two days later and I’m still rehearsing your words in my mind and picturing your face as you sa…

• A Night In The Fog

  by THX 0477 12 months ago

  Fog usually puts me in a good mood, just something magical about it. But there’s no magic tonight, even if I did wear by favo…

• The Marked 57

  by The_Count 12 months ago

  Michelle came to in one of the upstairs bedrooms laying on the bed, sitting up slowly she held her head in her palms. The ro…

• The Marked 58

  by The_Count 12 months ago

  “That’s more like it, I promise you’ll enjoy this..”Kane smiled kissing her lips.

  Michelle watched as he sat back pushing he…

• The Marked 59

  by The_Count 12 months ago

  Fully awake she noticed Kane laying across from her with one of the broken rail boards sticking out of his back. He coughed …

• Food for thought

  by Stoner 12 months ago

  “That last hit I took must have knocked something loose in the rear stabilizer. I can’t maneuver to get a weapons lock on him…

• The Marked 60

  by The_Count 12 months ago

  “God help me!” Michelle sobbed slowly turning around walking back toward him.

  “That’s it, come, we have much to do, you and …

• The Marked (finality)

  by The_Count 12 months ago

  “Ouch….Test!” Michelle screamed crawling toward her.

  “I’m…still alive.” Test said with a sigh

  “I thought you were dead,...

• My First Time

  by Tales From The Script 12 months ago

  I stepped out on stage the lights were bright and hot.
  I started sweating almost immediately.
  Maybe it was nerves being my fi…

• Another Tale Told 5

  by Tales From The Script 12 months ago

  He dangled from the rafters kicking, swinging back and forth; the man in the hood came for her.
  Debra dropped the lantern ker…

• {Challenge: mundane object} Quarters from heaven

  by Stoner 12 months ago

  Andrew stopped short and just looked down at it. There it was, plain as day, staring up at him like a profound treasure.

  A q…

• The Visit {mundane object challenge :The Quarter}

  by SKermitgorf 12 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 12 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 …

• One down

  by m8ryx 12 months ago

  Every day he stands at the freeway entrance, squinting into the sun, back bent slightly, shoes worn through long ago. His sig…

• Just One More {Challenge: mundane object}

  by Tiggerstripn2 12 months ago

  As I waited in line at the supermarket, I noticed a woman with a small boy.
  She was pleading with the manager ;
  she had tea…

• Bethany

  by LoveableBitch 12 months ago

  Kansas Plains, 1825-

  It was a chilly fall afternoon on my family's farm. I was reading a collected work of Shakespeare's cl...

• List of Songs to Answer the Challenge

  by horrorfan13 12 months ago

  1. Gold Lion by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  2. Fever by Peggy Lee
  3. Grace Kelly by Mika
  4. Sorry by Maria Mena
  5. Apologize by One R…

• I Hadn't A Clue

  by One Time, One Chance 12 months ago

  “We used it up, sorry.” he said with an expressionless stare.

  “What?! I need that to heal Shade or he might die!!” I say and…

• Closing Time (Challenge: Mundane Object)

  by Batak Beatrix 12 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 Bonfire

  by SunEyedGirl 12 months ago

  The light of the campfire lit their faces. There were a good number of guys there, but for some reason Sasha didn’t see them….

• Sarah's Life Before Simon {Blue's Second Challenge}

  by Alexa ♥ 12 months ago

  Sarah Todd had always been psychic. Nobody thought anything of it at first. When she was 5, she’d known her mother was about …

• The Fifteenth

  by Wil Wheaton 12 months ago

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

• Unknown Hope

  by someday_93 12 months ago

  I’m not blind. It’s not that I don’t see you, looking for me, searching all those unknown places. I know you’re there, I know…

• When Sarah Met Simon

  by Alexa ♥ 12 months ago

  Sarah had promised her mother she wouldn’t do that “weird” stuff. Essentially a good teenager, she tried not to. But, she som…

• URRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!

  by JonasBrothersLova148 12 months ago

  I danced until my high-heeled shoe broke. I gazed into John’s gorgeous brown eyes.
  He wispered into my ear. “You are the on…

• Further Gorram!

  by Alexa ♥ 12 months ago

  He knew! Nobody ever knew! Not even her mother, who knew of the ability.

  Sarah was so surprised at his thought confrontation…

• Reunion

  by Ana Cristina 12 months ago

  It was the middle of October, 9:15 a.m. on a Tuesday, and Claire Williams was late for work. It was a chilly day and Claire s…

• A Fool's Hope

  by Stoner 12 months ago

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

• Triple-Dog Dare (Stripn2 challenge)

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 12 months ago

  You never back out of a triple-dog dare. My older brother kept digging more things out of the fridge and pantry. The glass wa…

• The grass isn't greener on the other side

  by Stoner 12 months ago

• {Tiggerstripn2 Challenge} Gonna' Make An Actor Out Of Me

  by THX 0477 12 months ago

  “Five minutes to curtain, Mr. Ebbins,” the nervous stage hand called through the door. I try to breathe.

  Staring at my own …

• Game Therapy (mundane challenge: a quarter) (Formerly called Bullying)

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 12 months ago

  I slammed the front door behind me and threw my books down on the couch. “Mom! I’m home!” I yelled at the top of my lungs.

  ...

• Final Words of Love

  by Amaster 12 months ago

  “Good-bye my Fancy! Farewell dear mate, dear love. I’m going away, I know not where, or to what fortune, or whether I may eve…

• The Coming Storm

  by m8ryx 12 months ago

  You are being watched. It knows everything about you. It can read your encrypted communications, your email, your bank statem…

• Freedom Dies

  by Blossom Ruoqen 12 months ago

  An innocent kid walks out of the arcade
  where all of his childhood fears can just fade
  always living inside his own head
  neve…

• Freedom Dies (part 2)

  by Blossom Ruoqen 12 months ago

  The bar swung high over this plasticized kid
  no hope to live, just with one thought left in his head
  what will my ‘friends’ a…

• Freedom Dies (part 3)

  by Blossom Ruoqen 12 months ago

  Now the punks on the ground with not a scratch to be seen
  but he’s bleeding inside from the lies he cant hide
  nobody told him…

• Freedom Dies (part 4)

  by Blossom Ruoqen 12 months ago

  the heart’s in arrest and the mind’s been suppressed
  stagger on home to your games and your lies
  there can be no reply to the…

• Freedom Dies (Fin)

  by Blossom Ruoqen 12 months ago

  He thought he was doing what he’d always dreamt ‘bout
  but the worlds been around for a whole lot longer
  was he so naive to th…

• Space Cash {Challenge: mundane object}

  by Amaster 12 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…

• A (Brief) Glimpse Into My iPod

  by insomniac 12 months ago

  1. Get Busy Living, Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows) by Fall Out Boy

  2. The Secret…

• Through the Eyes of A Tired Insomniac.

  by insomniac 12 months ago

  It’s not that I don’t mind not annoying people that aren’t like you, but I really don’t hate what you are, so that doesn’t me…

• Putting Myself In My Place

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 12 months ago

  Even though I was an intelligent college graduate, right then, in that instance, I felt like a teenager; so naive, so tactles…

• Rules For Friendship

  by Brebelles 12 months ago

  Here are a few of my Rules for friendship:
  1. Know who your REAL friends are
  2. Love and cherish and honor you friends
  3. Put…

• The Soundtrack of My Life, pt.2

  by The Ghost in the Machine 12 months ago

  Srry bout enterin twice, but the 1st list was prtty much a top 10 so i put limewire on shuffle and this is wat i got:
  1.You’r…

• Mud Slinging

  by Stoner 12 months ago

  Fred Latimer shuffled down the sidewalk on his daily trek to the man who knew everything or at least, everything Fred needed …

• Arfy NONFICLET

  by Arfy Ness 12 months ago

  NON-FIC let:

  Unfortunately this is not fiction, but it happens every day in the world around us. A secretary opening somethi…