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Stories posted 2/10/2008

• Tonington: En Route to Wellingtonshire-town

  by Nick Irvine 4 months ago

  The good doctor pulled the brass chain that vented the hot buoyant gas from the top of the aeroballoon. The appearance of his…

• Sharing Music

  by Culture Shock w/ Mike Schwartz 4 months ago

  The music was blasting across the alley way. An odd hypnotic beat that sent chills through my body as I thought of her swayin…

• He Never Liked It When She Cried

  by Christopher Sisk 4 months ago

  “What happened to us?” He asked with trepidation.

  She spoke no words, but the look of fear and pity on her face said it all….

• I'll Wait Here

  by More Ways Than One 4 months ago

  I’ll wait here
  Till your ready
  You can push and shove

  I’ll wait here
  Till you tell me the truth
  You can take as long as you …

• camera shy

  by RunningWithScissors 4 months ago

  for once
  i’d wish i could look at myself
  in pictures and be proud
  in mirrors and feel gorgeous, or at least a step up from h…

• No place like home

  by HaveToWrite 4 months ago

  Adam leaned against the fence, trying to regain his breath. He had only been minutes from the market when he heard it. The ro…

• Jackypoo and Mr. G

  by RunningWithScissors 4 months ago

  The salty sheets were tangled around her pale ankles and her long, blue black hair fanned out around her sleeping face like t…

• The Future

  by Scary Thing I Aint Dead Yet 4 months ago

  The years come and go. We do not count the years any more. The world is cold and a dieing breed. We follow a corrupted system…

• Fame: The Article

  by back in your head 4 months ago

  I hand the magazine to Kai and watch her face as she reads. Her jaw’s hanging by the end of the article. She tosses the magaz…

• Six word memoirs CHALLENGE and a word from our subconcious

  by Tears of Phoenix 4 months ago

  My life is a psychological thriller.

  -(This is actually the best one, it’s the only way to make my memoirs-to-date interesti…

• Courage....

  by distant memories 4 months ago

  Fr0g_GuRl: hi! this is emily z.
  StarBurst34: hey.
  Fr0g_GuRl: whats up?
  StarBurst34: nuthin much. u?
  Fr0g_GuRl: ugh. homework….

• Right Now [6 Word Memoir]

  by artistsrunwild 4 months ago

  Everything awaits.

  I’m just not ready.

• six word memoirs challenge

  by distant memories 4 months ago

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  I knew that he had changed

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• believe (six word challenge)

  by `crayola. 4 months ago

  i loved, i laughed, I BELIEVE.
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• Gross Challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please enter! I know this is random!!!! But I'm a very random person so you're just going to have to deal with it!!!! (Ahem, excuse me) ENTER OR YOU WILL DIE! Just kidding. :) Well, this is a bit of a long title...

  by Dreamer 4 months ago

  GROSS CHALLENGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  -for those of you who do not know what a gross is, it’s 12×12 (or 144)

  I have 144 fic…

• On The Porch

  by Nightengail2012 4 months ago

  The sun set hours ago, but there was still light outside. As I sit outside evaluating my life all I could think of was my chi…

• Caught Red Pantied

  by Nouvelle Bardot 4 months ago

  Alright, so I just completely broke the whole stalker confidentaility rule and started apologizing. Wait a second, now they k…

• believe continued

  by HB2 4 months ago

  Believe: last curse of my master.
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• Bullies

  by Kitsune Mishiami 4 months ago

• Childhood

  by Kitsune Mishiami 4 months ago

  Childhood

  Tears of suffering

  Lots of pain

  Why can’t the people see?

  The Anguish of their actions,

  The Scars left on the…

• Nothern Morning (6 word memoir challenge)

  by HB2 4 months ago

  Ice, horizon, sharp skates and laughter.
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• Confronting The Angry French Man

  by Nouvelle Bardot 4 months ago

  Izzy must have ran because she got there exceptionally fast. If there was an attractive man somewhere, Izzy was not going to …

• A sasuke Uchiha love story (INFO)

  by Kitsune Mishiami 4 months ago

  Your Name: Shikaru Ayamego

  Your Age: 12

  Your Height: 4’ 10”

  Profile: Your clan was killed when you were little. You dont k…

• Stormy night in Mexico

  by Megh 4 months ago

  She looked up into the dark sky the whole 2 monthes she had been in Mexico it was never this bad. Selena didn’t like thunders…

• Late For Work

  by relentless writer 4 months ago

  The heat was relentless; waves of hot heavy air rose from the pavement. A line of people waiting for a streetcar stretched ha…

• Changes

  by NightMaiden 4 months ago

  Luna toyed with her wet hair and plopped face down on her bed. She turned over on her back and looked at the ceiling. Her han…

• Echo's Random Quiz: Random Answers From A Random Mind

  by insomniac 4 months ago

  Answers!!

  1) Panic At The Disco or Bob Marley
  2) Uh-oh, spaghetti-o.
  3) Guitar Hero
  4) Whoa
  5) Lake
  6) Cheddar
  7) Release Th…

• Sweet and Innocent Bliss

  by nesdil 4 months ago

  I will never forget how it feels when your hand gently brushes my arm,
  or how my heart jumps when your eyes meet mine.
  The s…

• silence, silence, and more silence

  by madwriter108 4 months ago

  “Will you?”,he said. “No,”she said. A cold silence followed soon after that.

• The Vampirate (The Pirate Challenge)

  by Melia 4 months ago

  The blindfold was whipped from her eyes and she had to blink several times before her vision cleared. She calmly took in her …

• Challenge of a Challenge [Or: A Mockery of a Travesty of a Sham of a Travesty of a Mockery...]

  by THX 0477 4 months ago

  Ah Ha! Eureka! Ficlet laws and customs are meant to be broken, and here I go again. Granted, I just hosted a challenge and on…

• Sundown

  by NightMaiden 4 months ago

  Luna winced as the tomato she was chewing on went to the cut on her lips.
  “What’s wrong?” her mother asked. They were eating…

• Sundown

  by NightMaiden 4 months ago

  Luna winced as the tomato she was chewing on went to the cut on her lips.
  “What’s wrong?” her mother asked. They were eating…

• A Walk

  by NightMaiden 4 months ago

  “I feel like ‘Odette’ from the Swan Princess,” Luna growled to herself. The sun had vanished into the lake. “Only I’m a bit…

• Who could be that indecisive?

  by Emmyful 4 months ago

  “May I get you something to drink?” I asked a middle-aged man as a volunteer on a Friday night.

  “I would like two unsweetene…

• Brendon Urie

  by I LOVE FRANK IERO AND WILLIAM BECKETT!!! 4 months ago

  Dark eyes,
  tall and thin,
  Very strange,
  yet charming and hansome.
  I adore him,he’s wonderful,
  But yet I will not meet.
  Well y…

• Alone. Sort Of.

  by Dragon_sun 515 4 months ago

  “You should probably open it.”

  I turned to see Grace in my doorway. Perfect Grace. The good kid who stuck out the family cur…

• Have You Seen...

  by Dragon_sun 515 4 months ago

  “What in all that is holy?” Taylor sat up and looked around for the woman. Her eyes stopped but not because she found the wom…

• She's Mine

  by Dragon_sun 515 4 months ago

  “What were you thinking?”

  “That she’d listen to me!”

  “Ok, let me rephrase. Why were you thinking that?”

  I sighed and sank …

• Criminals in Candy Land

  by paper flowers 4 months ago

  It was another busy day in the candy dish. There were reports of some nutcase who’d been causing trouble, and it was up to me…

• Faith Though Fire

  by Maiera 4 months ago

  You took my broken wings
  and healed them with your hands
  My shattered dreams you picked up
  all the pieces and put them togeth…

• Staking my Territory

  by Dragon_sun 515 4 months ago

  “This is Brandon Sumaw,” I was grinning at the looks he was getting from everyone. Adoring looks from the girls and murderous…

• Realizations

  by Dragon_sun 515 4 months ago

  I paced back and forth and K’y’erma watched me with a concerned attitude. I couldn’t believe it. West gone? And with Lucifer?...

• Desolation's End

  by Maiera 4 months ago

  Through desloation, and pergatory’s unnatural fire
  I layed, unable to move, frozen in the isolation
  Thoughts never ceasing, a…

• with love

  by Megh 4 months ago

  me and lea

  our deffinition of love

  love: noun; something that can break your heart or make your heart only you can choose w…

• love rules

  by Megh 4 months ago

  do everything with love in your heart if you dont someone my never give you any love back. when you say you love someone love…

• WHY???

  by Megh 4 months ago

  I LAY AWAKE EVERY NIGHT THINKING ABOUT YOU WONDERING IF YOU THINK ABOUT ME. I KNOW IT’S A LOT TO SAY ABOUT SOMEONE BUT I REAL…

• Not Bear But Gnud [my apologies for the double pun title]

  by THX 0477 4 months ago

  My girlfriend, bless her heart, smiled. Three half-breed goblins from a far away, mystical land had violated the sanctity of …

• Too Late

  by Reggie Saymine 4 months ago

• the boat part 1

  by Megh 4 months ago

  Sunshine flooded in the room as Adriana woke up only to remember she was on a large boat almost in the middle of no where.he …

• A Phone Call

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  It all started with a phone call.
  “Tom!!! Tom!! You have to believe me!! Zombies are attacking my neighborhood!!!” My friend …

• Dear Mom and Dad, [six word challenge]

  by Crown Me Tarzan, King of Mars 4 months ago

  Santa isn’t real…?

  What about Jesus?

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• The Little Jimmy Chronicles

  by madwriter108 4 months ago

  Little Jimmy was just eating his favorite cereal one morning when a dark, gloved hand came out of his cereal box and grabbed …

• Preparations

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  I got up, and made for the door, but stopped.
  Wait, I need provisions, anything i need I have to carry on my back.
  I am a b…

• Waking Dreams

  by KasumiRose 4 months ago

  It’s early, but I’m not really tired. The blankets and sheets are wrapped around me in the way I like best, but they don’t fe…

• Truth, Lie, Half-truth

  by Dragon_sun 515 4 months ago

  I heard Lee running up the stairs and hid the book in the bookshelf hoping to hide it. He opened the door quietly and saw me …

• Mutany at the High Seas (Pirates Challenge)

  by Blusparrow 4 months ago

  “Walk the plank!” chanted the pirate mates.
  Man, I never thought I would be here. Walking the plank, looking at the deep sea …

• Almost

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  I walked down my main hallway and opened a drawer in a table.
  Ah, yes. Fireworks.
  I grabbed hand fulls of bottle rockets an…

• The Not So Silent Accident

  by madwriter108 4 months ago

  The previous year they had been together…..or, at least, known each other had been a very dark, sad, happy, and confusing y…

• The Ignorance of Mankind

  by madwriter108 4 months ago

  I refuse to be ignored…...i’ve waited years for somebody to listen to me…..i could have helped people….i could have sav…

• Writing and Learning

  by Dragon_sun 515 4 months ago

  It wasn’t only with Lily that things were happening. Everywhere Taylor went she was seeing elves from her stories. She knew w…

• The Ultimate Question

  by Dragon_sun 515 4 months ago

  There’s a million other guys and I have to fall for him? One of my best friend’s crushes. And I don’t even have the decency t…

• Almost Ready to Tell

  by Valerie Joy 4 months ago

  It would be easier if he could just hate her. Or perhaps feel nothing. Yes, feeling nothing would be much easier.

  “How is it…

• Store

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  I whipped out my cell phone and called my friend John D. I adjusted The sleeves of my jacket as the phone rang.
  “Hello?” I he…

• Thanks for saving me!

  by OrangeOreos 4 months ago

  Little kid. Busy street. Thanks Dad.

  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• First Crush

  by madwriter108 4 months ago

  I can’t eat or sleep or do anything without thinking about her. She drives me up the wall, but i can’t stop thinkin’ about he…

• You Got Robbed, Sucka!

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  I had to rob the store. Yes, it is very immoral, but this is life and death.
  Plus I looked like a twelve-year-old Rambo, cons…

• Woods

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  I hopped back on my bike, and headed home.
  _I have to hide out in the woods behind my house, I know my own backyard better th…

• Not talking to him ever again

  by madwriter108 4 months ago

  She got a text message from him about the accident, not a voice message. He was too afraid and sad and pretty much blubbering…

• Shelter

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  I finally found a small space, lined with bushes. In the middle, there was a huge rock.
  _I could make a lean-to so I can slee…

• Confessions of a bleeding heart

  by heartbeats echocho 4 months ago

  Why do my fears get the best of me?
  Why when you’re not blind, must you choose not to see?
  Why can’t I be who I wan…

• Freedom Fighters

  by Scary Thing I Aint Dead Yet 4 months ago

  “One day ill find a way to escape from all of this” Clover said.

  ” Shut up if they heard what you said they will take you aw…

• Boy VS. Girls

  by paperg5 4 months ago

  ’’he is near’’ the girl proclaimed. No boys allowed here .the girls were ready.Was he ?

• six-word meltdown!!!!

  by invisibility_disability 4 months ago

  can’t. think. must. attack. my. keyboard….....................

  WEHisjfsdifhaowieraleidoifoidahserwueyjdfhaiduy

  and no,...

• Marguerite Invites Herself Over

  by Culture Shock w/ Mike Schwartz 4 months ago

  John huffed past me in a flurry towards the door. Although he still seemed mad, I could imagine his eagerness to meet the bra…

• The Hut in the Woods

  by paper flowers 4 months ago

  Oh what did I get myself into this time!
  Melody had my arm in a death grip as she lead me through the forest. She was convi…

• diary.

  by invisibility_disability 4 months ago

  Dear Diary,
  Two months have passed and I am still a “loner” at school, if you can even call it that. I don’t really mind s…

• An Odd Breakfast

  by Never Explain 4 months ago

  My dad and Emily weren’t awake yet, and Brandy didn’t want to go out to get breakfast, so we decided to cook something oursel…

• Just as the Orange

  by flute faerie 4 months ago

  My weakness is receding, my courage growing. I can resist the temptation. I will do it for my friends, my family, and most o…

• The Mostly Unknown By Most Race Of The Active Authors Is Over!! And The Winner Is..

  by One Time, One Chance 4 months ago

  Well, for any of you who have been reading my profile have slight knowledge that there was a race to the 2000th comment, and …

• Six Word Challenge- You Never Cared

  by flute faerie 4 months ago

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  <<<< I cried hard…...................He didn’t care
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• The Three

  by paper flowers 4 months ago

  Once there were three knights. They were constantly traveling the land, doing the normal things that knights do. You know, fi…

• Six-Word Memoir

  by Stovohobo 4 months ago

  Unhindered by conformity, the nerd flourishes.

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• the storm

  by paperg5 4 months ago

  Thunder and lighting crash . An innocent child hides under a tree .BOOM!

• The Castle

  by paper flowers 4 months ago

  “That’s the oddest castle I’ve seen in all my days,” states Sir Damien.
  Indeed, it was unlike any castle throughout the land….

• the old man

  by paperg5 4 months ago

  On a clear day an old man told me there would be a storm , far worse then any other. People would die . Then the weather repo…

• the child

  by paperg5 4 months ago

  As my beloved dashed for the tree, I wept . When the child was struck I….....................................................

• lost: boy of town

  by paperg5 4 months ago

• lost: boy of town

  by paperg5 4 months ago

• Is it better to be marooned on a deserted island or saved by pirates? You decide. [Pirate Challenge]

  by Ana Cristina 4 months ago

  I’ve been marooned on this island for a week, living off fish and coconuts. My skin is beginning to turn the same hue and tex…

• Confused Guards

  by paper flowers 4 months ago

  “State your business!”
  The Three looked up at the large guards that were blocking their way to the castle.
  “We come from a la…

• invitation.

  by invisibility_disability 4 months ago

  school the next morning was… interesting.

  “um, hey… giselle?” i heard a rather deep voice say.
  i turned around. “oh.. um…

• Simple As Midnight

  by ninnikupanda 4 months ago

  “Not the red ones!” she yelled, flicking on the light and hurrying into the closet.
  “Yeah, yeah,” the other said in a rushe…

• The Voice

  by Scary Thing I Aint Dead Yet 4 months ago

  “What has happened,” Craig said. “Where has my mind gone to. What have i done.”

  “You did what was right.” The voice said.

  ”...

• euphoric.

  by invisibility_disability 4 months ago

  i came home from school, lugging my backpack but still in a good mood.
  “looks like the princess of darkness has come into the…

• V3ND1N9 MACH1N3.

  by madwriter108 4 months ago

  Another dull, depressing day, Doug thought. He shoved a wrinkled, old, coffee-stained dollar into the vending machine. He pun…

• An Unlikely Reunion

  by Ana Cristina 4 months ago

  The ship dropped anchor some fifty or so feet from the shore. I watched as a rowboat was lowered. Watched as the rowboat head…

• the boat part2

  by Megh 4 months ago

  “Just my dorky friends tryin’ to scare me i think.” aid Adriana not sure that it was her friends anymore

  “Ummm… OK, you ju…

• A Warm Welcome

  by Ana Cristina 4 months ago

  “Try me on for size, lad. I’ve heard worse, I’ll warrant.” Bertha stood, arms akimbo, her one good eye gleaming with humor.
  ...

• Human: Hawk and Mouse

  by Tad Winslow 4 months ago

  A hawk glides in a february gust.

  Searching.

  Searching to live. For the simple pleasure of a stomach not empty this bird of…

• Oh My God

  by ○○♥Promises Broken & Backs Turned♥○○ 4 months ago

  The next day in school, I sat next to Garrett in science class, first period. He kept looking down and whenever he lifted his…

• Possesed Over Pierre

  by Nouvelle Bardot 4 months ago

  I think Izzy was posessing me as soon as she left the door, because I was dumb enough to start inviting him over. Of course, ...

• Blood, Sweat and Regicide

  by Ana Cristina 4 months ago

  “It all started the night of the murder. I mean, of course, the attempted murder. We made our way into the theater. My men …

• My Life. My Philosophy. Six Words.

  by Yeah Write! 4 months ago

  Smile:
  Life ends
  when you stop.

• Six word memoirs

  by Squeaky 4 months ago

  I never knew what you felt.

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• The Pirate Lectures His Son

  by Ana Cristina 4 months ago

  “Aye, but it’d be your blood, sweat and tears with which you’d be paying, had you been caught. Your mother’d be paying, too…

• Gate 27

  by J.B. Williams 4 months ago

  She ran to me, jumping into my open arms. I held her tightly, not wanting to let her go again. Life and it’s circumstances st…

• Yo ho, Yo ho, it's not a pirate's life for me.

  by Ana Cristina 4 months ago

  “Well, go on, what else happened? How’d you end up on that island? I thought the guards were on to you.”

  “We managed to esca…

• Irma Story-111

  by Fida 4 months ago

  Irma then decided to make busy with evening schooling and that is when I met her. Finding me a foreign student She was all pr…

• I Need Help

  by One Time, One Chance 4 months ago

  “But Kait, I need to meet up with him.”

  “I thought you dumped him!” she looked ready to start crying.

  “Yeah, I did, I told …

• About That

  by One Time, One Chance 4 months ago

  I couldn’t look at him, couldn’t let him know that I was crying.

  “Mel?” he asked, taking a step towards me.

  “I’m sorry.” I …

• Irma Story-1V

  by Fida 4 months ago

  Later She started hearing voices. Irma had hard time to cope with it as such she lost the job making her to return home. Now …

• The Silent Treatment

  by madwriter108 4 months ago

  No one understood why he did it. He said it was an accident, but was he telling the truth? It was a mystery, all right. A big…

• Just a friendly father and son chat

  by Ana Cristina 4 months ago

  The bottle met the door and smashed against it in a rain of whiskey. Not two seconds later, the door opened slowly and Bertha…

• Irma Story-V

  by Fida 4 months ago

  Listening all this I got suddenly frightened thinking She could be a witch? And then I remember having met a traveler from my…

• Silence: legal trouble

  by madwriter108 4 months ago

  A year followed soon after that, and she acted like he never existed. She walked right by him with her rather large group of…

• Six Word Memoirs

  by Christopher Sisk 4 months ago

  I saw that post on the 37signals SvN blog and thought it was interesting. Then I see this challenge. I’ll enter a few that co…

• Awkward Love, a CHALLENGE of sorts.

  by Nouvelle Bardot 4 months ago

  I finally broke 250 ficlets. Mostly due to the post boosting I got from writing a sequel with Culture Shock w/ Mike Schwartz …

• I Want Life.

  by FlirtingWithaBrickWall 4 months ago

  I want to read for the sake of reading, not just because the book is required.

  I want to hang out with my friends and have a…

• Who was he anyway-11

  by Fida 4 months ago

  Next day having done with Monteal I went to station for my return journey home. Oh! what the hell! The man sitting in front o…

• I Need chaos

  by FlirtingWithaBrickWall 4 months ago

  I need people.

  I need music that’s loud for the sake of sound.

  I need to dance.

  I need to feel the warmth of someone next …

• The Seventeen Forms of The Folded Paper Swan

  by Heygabe 4 months ago

  There were 17 possible ways to fold a paper swan, and Bob knew fourteen of them. He knew that at least two were purely theore…