Stories posted 10/28/2007
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{Gumshoe Challenge} What a Doll

Lara dropped a stack of papers on her boss’s desk and quirked her blonde eyebrow at him. “Gotten any further on the Cobs case…
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A rambling thought of me
you are so broken
shattered like a million mirrors
7million years of bad luck
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Lair of the Morbidly-Obese-Man Eater
“Oh, no, monstrous humanoid, don’t eat me! I’m all tough and lean!”
“If I had a penny for every time I heard that…well, th…
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{Stovohobo Challenge} Wedding Jitters

Leisha affixed the boutonniere to her eldest son’s jacket while he fidgeted nervously and looked pale. “Does that look right?...
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{Lyric Challenge} Do You Ever...?

“Are you one of the fortunate kind, alone but not lonely?”
Jessie tapped her thumb on her knee in time to the music as she…
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Chocolate Covered Strawberries
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Hopefully this title will catch your attention. Part 6

I go to counseling every day. And this..this counselor calls me her trouble patient. Her unsuccessful one. Her tragedy kid. ...
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Chocolate Covered Strawberries pt2

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Chocolate Covered Strawberries pt3

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Chocolate Covered Strawberries pt4

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Chocolate Covered Strawberries pt5

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Chocolate Covered Strawberries pt6

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Done With Losing Sleep

The orb of the moon shone too bright into her window. The breeze was too loud; the tick of her clock too irritating. She sat …
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Forgiven?
We had a huge fight. I haven’t talked to him in a week. I just couldn’t believe he’d do such a thing. It was 1 a.m, but I c…
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Greta's Bruises (On My Body)

I go to bed every night. I’m the one who pulls the covers over my head, who shuts off the lights and says goodnight. But ten …
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Them

We ran out of gas ten miles from town. Oh great. We’re going to die, was all I could think about. Those.. those..things...
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Now I Know

They were right outside the windows of our car and closing in quickly. I should’ve been terrified but all I could think abo…
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Run!

We ran so far so fast. I could hear them behind us, following us. I had said it. I had told him I loved him. How weird it had…
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Not Now

I could tell by the way she kept looking over my sholder at Them that now was not the time.
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The House

“James! Snap out of it!!” I screamed putting all my weight against the door. He blinked and ran. He started pushing a dressor…
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Just a halloween ish poem, a classic
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Poem lyrics of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson.Because I could not…
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Robot Uprising (pt. 3)

George absentmindedly listened for the sound of sirens as he walked to Marly’s yard. He was not surprised when firetrucks fai…
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What Gram Doesn't Know (pt. 1)
What Gram didn’t know wouldn’t hurt her, he thought.
That was a stupid thing to think. Gram knew almost everything. It was h…
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What Gram Doesn't Know (pt. 2)

So Simon crept down the stairs, staying to the edge of the third step, the one that creaked in the middle, and slunk to the l…
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They don't come out at night

As you lie on the ground, stifling the pain from your turned ankle, the thought comes to you that if you lie very, very, stil…
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What Gram Doesn't Know (pt. 3)

“You got a third eye in the back of your head, Gram,” Simon said.
“You can see that?” Gram turned around on the sofa to look…
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What Gram Doesn't Know (pt. 4)

Not that his Mom would have paid much mind. His Dad, on the other hand, was a good bit more imaginative, and seemed to have s…
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The driver
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What Gram Doesn't Know (pt. 5)

“But that’s just silly, right, son?” his Dad said.
This was a memory he loved and hated for the rest of his life. Loved it b…
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On His Way

He woke up in the early morning. Standing up Kevin brushed himself off. First things first, he needed money.
Now Kevin wasn’...
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What Gram Doesn't Know (pt. 6)

And that’s what really brought Simon here, today, hoping that Gram wasn’t at home watching him right now with her third eye.
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Red Haze

I stared. It was gone! The trunk with the Book in it was gone! Anna was frantic.
“James where is it?!” Anna shrieked.
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What Gram Doesn't Know (pt. 7)

Gram said it was dangerous, and Simon knew she was right. He was just a kid, but he wasn’t stupid. But Gram didn’t know about…
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The One and Only Ross Family Traveling Show{ OTOC challenge}

“Wow,” Said Cee Cee after meeting all of Joe’s siblings after the play they performed. “That was the best production of The S…
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Lynde's House - Left The Party.

“Hi.. everybody.” Lynde’s mom says, eyeing her daughter for not telling her there would be company.
“Hi, Mrs. Tylent.” they …
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First Real Friend.

Somebody actually cares? I think, astounded.
“Please, come out.” she repeats.
If it’s a teacher, I swear..
But thankfu…
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The Tunnel

I raced up the stairs, pulling James along. He was really out of it. What is his problem?? I was so hyped on adrenaline I…
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Robot Uprising (pt. 4)

“I’m not sure,” said Marly with something of a hoarse, crackling whisper. “It started glowing right around the time that the …
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A Fictional Autobiography

“I’m done.” She whispered. “I AM DONE!”
The words pierced the two people that she was with. Her tone was icy, hard. She shi…
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A Fictional Autobiography [2]

As she drove she sung along to the music and tried to make sense of the confusing thoughts that kept entering her head. Her m…
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Non-artificiality

Of course, he beat me here, left the note, and went back. He’s really not a bad guy, I really shouldn’t have blown up in his …
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Today

She awoke on Marl’s futon couch, no surprise. Popcorn was scattered all around like candy after a pin~ata is broken. Cyn was …
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Indecisive

It all happened too suddenly. Sitting there in our motorboat, enjoying the afternoon when the water shook. Little Christina’s…
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The Waite Library (pt. 1)

The building was old, and mostly red-clay brick, but whoever built it had the bad idea of giving the building a vaguely neocl…
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The Waite Library (pt. 2)

—And suddenly his third eye snapped completely open on its own accord, and he saw all the magic in the town, threads and kno…