Stories posted 9/29/2007
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Writings From Your Troubled Mind
A dozen stories, counting drafts, is nowhere near enough. Some people have hundreds. But somehow you know yours are always mo…
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Shark

I slipped behind a wall, leaning against it for support and gasping for breath. He’d been a shark- one of those people that d…
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Prelude: Migar's Story
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Prelude: West-men

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2 shots

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Journal of the Lost
Day one.
The engine’s beyond gone. Communications, dead. What rations I managed to salvage are few. Vessel will serve as base… -
She Never Got Along With Her Kindergarten Teacher (6)

When fifth grade came, Jorden had been living in her room for the entire summer, and was probably the palest she had ever bee…
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The One I Couldn't Control

*The sun shines a bright patch onto the floor, upsetting the dust. A bird’s song floats in through the window. The painting o…
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Sometimes I Wonder
Sometimes I wonder—
is it clear to youWhy I act like a fool, and say what I do?
Please, would you gaze
Behind my sad blue… -
Mole

“It’s a method of measurement…” Nicòle shook her head. “It’s all very confusing. It is said that when used properly, one ca…
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GSM[y6]

Very much later in my life i would learn of what had happened to me before i was bitten. I would learn how i forgot the horro…
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GSM[yc7]

How one goes about it differs with every vampire. I personally take my prey from behind or the side. If you pull their hair, ...
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A Song of Understanding
It’s one of those corny, sappy poetic moments/You have never felt so wrapped in your own existence/So contained in your own…
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Gunshots
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Our Cloud

Our love may not be written in the stars, but it’s written in the clouds. Our love may not sparkle and shine, but it floats a…
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Float On

Does the duration of an event signify its worth? If love lasted a rain storm or a light summer breeze, would it be any less m…
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White and Pure

Our cloud is white and pure, so you won’t have to bring your umbrella. The sky around it is bright and blue. Our love will no…
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Text Message Torture
Nothing says ‘unrequited love’ louder than an unanswered text.
And it leaves me wondering, unable to move from my bed, kept … -
Cap'n Scally Wag & The Treasure

The Vulcutur landed ashore, the crew nearly all dead.
Captain Scally Wag hobbled ashore on his peg leg, Jolly Roger, his firs… -
Those Red High-Heels
I’m not a high-heeled kind of girl.
Usually I prefer the ever-versatile tennis shoes, canvas so worn in places that it’s an …
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Leda

It was a normal day for him: wake up, think of Leda, make an offering to Demeter, milk the cows, think of Leda, hoe his field…
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Waves of Dreaming
Wake me up from waves of dreaming
Where I’m stuck inside your mind
Drifting off in clouds of consciousness
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Scandal Sheet
My name is Ellroy J. Highsmith, I edit the tabloid know as the National Inquisitor.
The current crop of Hollywood stars hate…
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Winged and Forgotten

The hill overlooked a sprawling yet quaint town, much like any other one. There was a relatively large church near the center…
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Francis At Sea
A Southward breeze crossed the foredeck and left Francis shuddering as he scurried aft. His course zigged and zagged as he ke…
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A Conflicted Love
“Devan.” Angel said. “Perfect. She’s perfect.”
“Yes.” Natas was holding the newborn baby girl. Somehow, that worried Angel. I… -
Railroads & Train Tracks

Tears streaming down her face,she raced toward the railroad as fast as she could.She remembered the look on his face when her…
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Grow Up, and Leave
All her life she drowned herself in the masterpieces of other. They were her escape out of the boring mundane world in which …
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All Good Things Must Come To An End

He was one of them.
I (Lisa) couldn’t get over it.
He was one of them, a dragon.
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The Forest

A boy named Charlie, at the young age of nine, was walking through the forest trees, looking for his lost dog. He heard a bar…
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A Dream
As I stare into the horizon,
it feels as if I’m floatingEverything around me has disapeared,
its like I’m in oblivionAl…
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Shark (2)

My walk home was uneventful, though the adrenaline still pumped madly in my veins. A lone streetlamp loomed nearby, flickerin…
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All She'd Wanted

All she’d wanted was a happy life. Instead, here she sits. Cold and alone. Wondering what to do and where to go.
She’d starte… -
A Quiet Din, A Screaming Hush

Hushed voices snaked through the old house’s corridors, “Did you hear?” The boy looked to his lady and shook his head makin…
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Being and Not Being

Betrayal can be so powerful. Not as powerful as me. I lay here in the land of white, the realm of the sterile and sanctified;...
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A Reality

Horizon to horizon I see no ocean,
as if the land could swallow me upThere is no peace, no blank space,
as the details of l…