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Stories posted 1/30/2008

• Birthday Cake{ Llamaluvsmenotyou's very special challenge}

  by SKermitgorf 5 months ago

  While I decorate the cake, with purple frosting, as per instructions, I ate breakfast of pancakes, Florida Orange juice and a…

• An Open Letter to HoboBeardBob

  by stylorouge 5 months ago

  Dearest HoboBeardBob,

  I recently learned that you suffer from an incurable and rare form of swollen hemorrhoids. I am so sor…

• Psychedellic Grandmother (True Story Challenge)

  by Nouvelle Bardot 5 months ago

  I sat in a pink bathroom with pea green shag carpeting, perched atop a pink toilet, my feet resting snugly on the the matchin…

• True Stories

  by Faith 5 months ago

  I don’t usually like to read
  fictional stories that people wrote.

  I think
  there’s something odd
  about buying a book
  t…

• Lonesome Musings

  by Apostrophe 5 months ago

  A woman sits alone in Starbucks with her latee and a copy of the paper. She reads some columns, then she reaches the style s…

• Afterlight (A City Of Villains Story Part 2)

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 5 months ago

  She hesitates. Does she really want to know what’s in store for her. Try as she might, she cannot remember what circumstances…

• Afterlight (A City Of Villains Story Part 3)

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 5 months ago

  She moves past her husband. She looks down at her body, beaten, bruised, her face almost unrecognizable. One arm is in a cast…

• A Woman's Gotta do What her Husband Asks for

  by NightMaiden 5 months ago

  Geez…What was his problem, anyway? He couldn’t be right. I ran Ed’s words over in my head again and again.
  _“Women can’t le…

• Afterlight (A City Of Villains Story Part 4)

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 5 months ago

  She remembered it all.

  When she entered the bank, it was like somebody pushed her aside, borrowed her body. She came up to t…

• Foolishly [A Poem]

  by artistsrunwild 5 months ago

• Afterlight (A City Of Villains Story Part 5)

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 5 months ago

  Before she could react, two of the gang members grabbed her. They must have worked her over for an hour, maybe more. Eventual…

• The Phone Addiction [Part 1]

  by artistsrunwild 5 months ago

  My mother’s phone rings constantly.

  I don’t think a second of the day goes by when her phone doesn’t ring or she’s not ince…

• The Hazel Eyes

  by NightMaiden 5 months ago

  People ran in all directions. The sky was black from smoke and the planes whirred over us like winged devils. We heard anothe…

• The Phone Addiction [Part 2]

  by artistsrunwild 5 months ago

  I would complain about wanting to go out and play or not being able to find the TV remote and she wouldn’t listen, let alone …

• The Phone Addiction [Part 3]

  by artistsrunwild 5 months ago

  Well, alright, I will give her some credit.

  She would notice but she wouldn’t put down the phone or stop talking – she woul…

• The Phone Addiction [Part 4]

  by artistsrunwild 5 months ago

  It was excellent, let me tell you: thanks to my mother, I was able to experience my first nightclub, my first drink and subse…

• Afterlight (A City Of Villains Story Part 6)

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 5 months ago

  And what decision is that? I doubt you’ll let yourself die. You just don’t have the courage. Her other self laughed.

  “Oh, ...

• Braided Hair: A Southern Haunting

  by stylorouge 5 months ago

  Well, now at you said somethin, I reckon I gotta tell this one.

  J’ever know Purchase Grover’s momma? Member she up an died …

• Afterlight (A City Of Villains Story Conclusion)

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 5 months ago

  Melody felt fear wash over her. “But, how…”

  “Come, Melody, darling.” The voice was strong, almost perfectly normal. “You’r…

• Canvas

  by Dorothea 5 months ago

  The canvas looked bare without its heavy and ornate frame. Its cracks and crevices glimmered under the spotlights of the work…

• Battle of Masquitoville

  by butterflygirl6106 5 months ago

  There was a king name Lillypad Lapew, he was over the kindgom of Orchidville.

  There was famine in the land and all the peasa…

• A Wolf's Death

  by Fitzwiggity 5 months ago

  It was midwinter: the cool air seemed to still the noises in the forest, and a ever darkening cloud kept appearing towards t…

• What is freedom?

  by Luuvvxiz_90 5 months ago

  Is it really freemdom when you can’t fly on your own?
  or is it really freedom when you can say things you want but then have …

• A Baby-Sitter's Inspiration

  by Luuvvxiz_90 5 months ago

  There is no other feeling in the world than to see a smile on a childs face and know that you put it there.
  There is no othe…

• When My Parents Got Divorced

  by back in your head 5 months ago

  It was summer.
  “Let’s go see Reno 911” Val the middle sister said. May the oldest sat up. “Yeah it’s mad hot in here.”
  “So …

• 5 Things To Annoy Co-Workers

  by NightMaiden 5 months ago

  1. Hum a theme like Star Wars or Warner Bros. under your breath incessantly.
  2.Follow one your friends and spray everythi…

• Balls and Consequences (LoA Challenge)

  by THX 0477 5 months ago

  “My ball,” I cried, standing up just in time to see it collide with a thunk and a thwap as the loosened leather cover hit hom…

• The Play's The Thing

  by SKermitgorf 5 months ago

  Seth looked at the posting on the school bulletin board, once again to see that he didn’t get a part in the school play.

  “Wh…

• the Psychic

  by SKermitgorf 5 months ago

  The Psychic reader was out , the sign above her door read.

  Oliver needed a reading, he was desperate. He knew today he would…

• White, White, White

  by Icarus 5 months ago

  Halfway up the rocky face – and by the time I saw that creeping giant it was too late, there was nowhere I could go. A climbe…

• Die Young, Stay Pretty

  by Nouvelle Bardot 5 months ago

  I never knew blood could be so hard to get out of the bottom of a bathtub. The corner market only carries so many cleaning su…

• A Southern Haunting: The Outhouse

  by SKermitgorf 5 months ago

  Remins me of when I was a boy back in Lampshade Alabamee.
  Me an ma’ cuzin Wille was inna need a th’ ole outhouse out back yon…

• Senator Celebutard

  by SKermitgorf 5 months ago

  Just my luck, stuck next to a toe tapper in the next stall, prolly some celebutard or senator.

  “Hey,” came a male voice from…

• A Godawful Small Affair

  by Wil Wheaton 5 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 …

• Math Class

  by Blusparrow 5 months ago

  Heather: Chill Ben, I just feel like I need some space sometimes.
  She started to walk into class and Ben grabbed her arm.
  Ben…

• Leonard Part 6: A Short Treatise on Excellence

  by stylorouge 5 months ago

  Noted for his profound timing and staggering ability to turn an evil vegetarian premise into comedy gold, Bill Cosby’s charac…

• Vapor Fish

  by J. Dack 5 months ago

  Laressa’s beady little brown eyes glared at me through the nicotine-tinted lenses of the stupid pink goggles she was wearing….

• The Great Gnarfor, Part One of Two

  by Amo de Tuus Aetas et Mors 5 months ago

  The cnidorious creature pushed away with its tentacles, drawing them back slowly and pushing them again, and began to move. T…

• Imprisoned By Ignorance

  by nesdil 5 months ago

  All my life, the only thing I’ve ever known is pain;
  the pain of drugs, the pain of love and lies.
  No one ever cared enough t…

• Too Small A Planet

  by Will Hindmarch 5 months ago

  “There’s still hope,” Matti said. He leaned over the butane bloom at the center of their little cafe table and burned off the…

• The Package (Ben Paddon's Mundane Moments Made Magnificent Challenge)

  by Stovohobo 5 months ago

  The doorbell rang, so I opened it.

  There was a package there, so I opened that too. With an X-acto knife.

  There was another…

• The Great Gnarfor, Part Two of Two

  by Amo de Tuus Aetas et Mors 5 months ago

  And under the shadow of the Great Gnarfor, the people of Sicily shuddered.

  But they were not defenseless. War jets began to …

• Gym Class

  by Barry 5 months ago

  Lenny looked up from tying his shoe, the still-smoldering remains of Mrs. Bark sputtering on the concrete in front of him. “N…

• I Die For You

  by Amo de Tuus Aetas et Mors 5 months ago

  My greatest dreams, needing to come true
  But I would give up all of them, all because of you.
  Your silky hair and sapphire ey…

• Do you remember? (place challenge)

  by Dr. Lew 5 months ago

  Going outside to get the mail. Spring is creeping up on us, I can smell it. Inhale deeply, take in the scent that the earth g…

• The message on your answering machine that I should've left...

  by heartbeats echocho 5 months ago

  Hey. It’s me. I know we don’t talk much but, that’s my fault. Uh…here’s the thing. I notice that when you leave a room, you…

• Vapor Fish pt. 2

  by J. Dack 5 months ago

  The wooden slats of the dock groaned and creeked under my boots as I walked toward the bathroom, as if to say: “you sir, are …

• Ode To Ziggy Stardust

  by Nouvelle Bardot 5 months ago

  Ziggy, you’re a masterpiece
  Spanning across the galaxy far and wide
  Leaving a smirk from a naughty dream on my sheet
  Your voi…

• Where Have You Been Terrance Filmore?{Melia's Scary Challenge}

  by SKermitgorf 5 months ago

  The Filmores had never believed in zombies, ghosts or the vampire lore. Those were myths and legends. Alien landings were mad…

• Down In The Park

  by Nouvelle Bardot 5 months ago

  As we strode down the beach, trying hard to repress ourselves from grasping hands or some other embarrassing atrocity, we cam…

• secret, tree, parents, grown

  by Emmyful 5 months ago

  She had a secret; one she had never told anybody. It was a very painful secret that she preferred not to talk about.
  As a you…

• Anara and the Wolf

  by Fitzwiggity 5 months ago

  She ran towards the forest. It wasn’t quite that dark yet, althought shadows played across the woods. A man was following her…

• Backing out

  by howhardlifeis 5 months ago

  “we have nothing to talk about, i have to go to the gym, someone’s waiting for me there”Kenny says
  “Yeah i’m sure that’s so i…

• gravity and love

  by yoITSme 5 months ago

  His smiles are bright as a mega watt bulb
  Maybe cause he is a movie star
  But who does he stare at with his perfect gaze?
  Me
  H…

• Ignorance is Bliss

  by emma jo_234 5 months ago

  Trees sway
  and birds fly
  Flowers pray
  but hours die.

  Nature’s way
  So good and sweet
  A love today
  A small heartbeat.

  What do…

• Test!!,From I LOVE FRANK IERO AND WILLIAM BECKETT!!! CLICK ON THISSSSSS!!!

  by I LOVE FRANK IERO AND WILLIAM BECKETT!!! 5 months ago

  1. If you were to date anyone in the fame line who would it be?

  2.Would you rather date an emo or an ghetto man?

  3. Which m…

• An Anonymous Tip

  by Stovohobo 5 months ago

  Mr. Massegiller stepped out of his office, shined shoes squeaking on the tiles. “Hello, Vera, anything new?” he asked as he g…

• At the doctor's office

  by howhardlifeis 5 months ago

• What I Love About you

  by ○○♥Promises Broken & Backs Turned♥○○ 5 months ago

  I shook my head at him, I almost forgot her for that moment. It didn’t matter, anymore. That’s what I liked about Garrett, he…

• Evening at Chalk Cliff

  by Stovohobo 5 months ago

  As Mother Sun settled down to sleep,
  And Brother Twilight stepped into the air,
  The evening at Chalk Cliff had started
  With n…

• Vapor Fish pt. 3

  by J. Dack 5 months ago

  A Federal Relief Chip. A few inches of translucent plastic with a microchip in the center. The government issued these to poo…

• Bear Bones Beginning

  by THX 0477 5 months ago

  Things are not going well with my girlfriend.

  A few nights ago, you see, I was taking out the garbage. She accompanied me, t…

• So...Maddie

  by ○○♥Promises Broken & Backs Turned♥○○ 5 months ago

  I looked over at Maddie, she was crossing and uncrossing her eyes again. She held on tight onto Bun-bun, a tattered, old, stu…

• Can't stand it...

  by Bartimaeus 5 months ago

  I still see you every day, yet it’s different. It’s not out of bitterness or depression, nor heartbreak. My stomach sinks whe…

• One Minute at 11:11

  by [pens&feathers] 5 months ago

  He sits by a window
  staring out at a dark sky,
  not yet caught in the fine web
  that hangs between midnight and morning.

  He wa…

• The Gate Is Open (Melia's Scary Challenge)

  by butterflygirl6106 5 months ago

  Laura enter her apartment, as she walk the long oblong hall way, she noticed that the bedroom lamp was on. She stop half way …

• Cold Zone

  by Vonster 5 months ago

  He made his way down the darkened artery of the now dead city. It was another cold day and his breath was visible, trailing a…

• Katy

  by someday_93 5 months ago

  She cries in the dead of night, alone where no one can hear her.

  And he cries too. “Luke?” She whispers, tiptoeing to his ro…

• The Comming

  by butterflygirl6106 5 months ago

  Darius Bontaville, Lived in a Condo on Durate Street in Rome.

  He lived alone and without any source of contact with the out…

• Ways to get kicked out of Wallmart

  by Cat the Dancing Mouse 5 months ago

  1. Grab a speaker phone and stand on the check out station and scream: “LUKE, I AM YOUR FATHER!” Then start singing the Barne…

• The Battle for Red Base 9

  by Bartimaeus 5 months ago

  The Russians descended with an entire fleet of battleships and fighters, reigning hell upon the Arvians. I could hear them sq…

• I Love You

  by Freedom 5 months ago

  Rodney pulled away from her minutes later.
  _Rodney: It’s getting dark, how are you going to get home?
  Jeanette: Hmm…
  Rodney…

• Love

  by flute faerie 5 months ago

  Now I know why they call it true love. It’s not love, it’s not puppy love, it’s true love. True love is always there for the…

• The Valentines Day Challenge

  by butterflygirl6106 5 months ago

  Roses are Red, Violets are truly Blue, you hurt me and now we are through.

  In celebration of Valentine Day, I want to bring …

• Wallmart Disturbances!(Warning:Please try at home!)

  by The Ghost in the Machine 5 months ago

  1.Pretend to steal a 20$ bill obviously. Or actually do it.
  2. When the cashier whips out that little pen to check if the 20 …

• Love hurts

  by Blood Red Sky 5 months ago

  How could this happen? NO, please let this be a dream. I stared dow at the shockingly pink and cheesy. The hello kitty valent…

• Worrying

  by Freedom 5 months ago

  Blake smiled and wrote back,
  Heather is up
  you’re crazy
  she’s hot but she has a secret, i like it
  Blake turned back to Heat…

• Make Me Jump Into the Air

  by Compound Fracture 5 months ago

  “Sometimes,” Gregor mused, “all a guy needs is a little hope, right?”

  “Sure,” replied Matti as he tapped the side of his gla…

• Ways To Get Kicked Out Of Walmart ( Cat's challenge)

  by Apostrophe 5 months ago

  2-

  Pose as a store employee. Plant yourself infront of the video game display and start playing the demo versions. When y…

• M.I.A. Boyfriend (break up on voice mail) Valentine Day Challenge

  by butterflygirl6106 5 months ago

  The seconds on the clock tick away as I waited for my shift to end. Tonight was so special and I wanted to get home and get r…

• relentless

  by Valerie Joy 5 months ago

  “Spare me,” she drawled.

  He narrowed his eyes, but kept his tone controlled. “I asked nicely.”

  “You demanded,” she reminded…

• A Later Note to Hasbeen

  by Blusparrow 5 months ago

  Dear Hasbeen,
  It has been a long time and you might be surprised to see the words,
  Thank You.
  Thank you for saying all thos…

• Taking A Stand

  by Phosphate11 5 months ago

  “Wow oh my she is such a creepster!!!” Linz said later the next day.

  “I know!!! It’s so weird, some of the things she said d…

• A Spectator of Senses

  by Tad Winslow 5 months ago

  I feel insane all of the time.

  The sun goes up but it’s not bright—even when I look directly at it. At night the street …

• Zero Unread Messages

  by Phosphate11 5 months ago

  With Jordan out of the way, I started thinking about other things.

  Bryce.

  It had been weeks since I texted him.

  And nothin…

• Shy and Hopeful and Hopeless

  by Valerie Joy 5 months ago

  She waited at the flagpole. She always waited at the flagpole for her sister. How was it that her younger sister always got o…

• On Turning Thirty

  by Ana Cristina 5 months ago

  If I hear someone say one more time that the 30’s are the new 20’s, I’m going to jump out of a window. And not necessarily on…

• Brewing Conspiracy

  by Vonster 5 months ago

  The hot coffee warmed my conscience as much as it did my palette. I stared straight ahead looking at my distorted reflection …

• Walmart Intrigue (Cat's Challenge)

  by Culture Shock w/ Mike Schwartz 5 months ago

  1. Enter wearing tights and an old British cloak and start reenacting scenes from Monty Python’s Holy Grail (esp. the “oppres…