Stories posted 3/30/2008
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That's an Order

I was led through a surprisingly dark hall way, leading to a small room, with wires trailing from everywhere to a computer wi…
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Keegan's Day 1 (cont.)

Partially because I have nothing else to do…I’m sequeling my Journal entry.
Hey, today is still March 29th hey who would o…
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A Dream
She’s no martyr, won’t keep trying
to pull a thrashing man to shore,
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feelings
Feelings of desperation pull her.
Feelings of need hold her back.
Happiness calms her.
Anger swells inside.She can’t take a…
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Observance (funny how challenge)

It’s funny how sometimes when you miss someone, you pretty much refuse to tell someone. Then when you see them, it’s always a…
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Awakening
His eyes open, but his vision is obscured by bandages. What happened to me? he thinks.
He tries to move, but whatever he’s…
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Stay With Me
Can we just stay here?
I feel safe
In this place
With youYou’re my shield
From this field
Of chaos
That haunts mePlease s…
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Gravitiy

People will never know why I do what I do.
I don’t do it for the thrills.
I don’t do it for the money.
I don’t do it for t…
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Seven Day Journal: Day 1 (Camillo's turn part 2)

I’m copying keegan and continuing my own.
I just have to talk about I Am Legend for a second. Wow. It was crazy.
Ok. Done. ...
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Bloody Knees
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It Was Easy
It was so, so easy. Surprisingly so.
I’d followed this guy for close to a month. I knew his daily routines. The route he too…
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Open Doors
Do you believe in magic? Maybe you’re skeptical. Well, you always will be. Because magic only happens to those who believe it…
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The Storm (Story Challenge)

It was a waste of time, and tears flowed freely for those fools who tried.
The storm was coming, and it would be here befo…
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My Expert Opinion (Xenoglossy Challenge)

“See here, doctor,” the general said. “This is an example of the phenomena I was talking about.”
I looked carefully at the o…
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A Girl and Her Theatre
Music is what flowed out into the hallways of the Parker School for the Arts. A young girl, about seventeen roamed its halls,...
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Our Mother
“Father.” He looked up at the old priest sitting by his bed.
“Yes, my son,” Father McKinnon said, startled by the suddenness…
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Otto the Orange and the Big SPLOOSH!

Remember our friend the lime? Well I am an orange, Otto the orange acctually. I hang here on this citrus trees every day with…
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Our Grave

The moment the words escaped my mouth, I began to fear him. Fire danced in his dark eyes, and I took a step backwards. My arm…
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Lyla

Lyla is a name that flows through the wind when it rolls off your tongue.
Whenever i hear this name, i picture a beautiful …
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School

It was time for school. I was dreading it more than usual. (which, before this is didnt think possible) Would Sam and Jess st…
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Living With The Nightmares

The nightmares would come of that I was certain.
But I was compelled to kill again and again. The thrill of finding a new vi…
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friends "forever"

it was early morning at the beach. as usual, me and haley were watching the sun rise while painting our toes.
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A Day of All Days
Today is the day.
Whole lives will be changed. The battle with my sworn enemy will determine my country’s fate. “Victory!” ...
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Don't Say That To Me

I opened my mouth to speak but no sound came out. I looked helplessly at Kevin. He nodded and explained my situation from the…
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Harsh Excitements

With a light heart, I clutched the miraculous paper to my chest and shakily got up from where I had been sitting. My hair whi…
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Eternal Sunshine of the Cluttered Mind (Stovohobo's Summary of His Ficlets So Far...For That One Challenge)

Well, I have 435 ficlets to summarize now…I don’t think the largest number on the site – but I’ll have to stop this sentenc…
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My Fantastic Ficlet Adventure! ~Blusparrow Challenge~

My first Ficlet was about Mutants. That eventually mutated into a story about a couple rock climbing leading up to the horrib…
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My Ficlet Adventure was Better than Yours!

When I first stumbled across this website, I was like “man I better write something amazing cause these guys writing here are…
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My Fantastic Ficlet Adventure! (Part 2) ~Blusparrow Challenge~

Then from Sci-Fi I went to High School Drama with Clover High and the continuation of Leather Pants and lots of true story Fi…
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CherryPop Makes a Run For It

Liam grabbed my arm and started pulling me toward the parking lot. My barrier disintegrated as I lost concentration and the z…
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I don't understand this at all.

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Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod… I kept shaking my head, not believing it. _She’s not dead. She’s not dead. It can’t … -
The Ring Is Missing

I could see the slightly apalled look on Captain Corbluff’s face. I would’ve laughed aloud if I hadn’t been so terrified of c…
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Self Portrait
Dark chocolate tresses
Frame her sand colored skin
Her eyes expose a black hole withinOnly when she writes
Does a light fi… -
The new tribes
The plains stretched as far as the eye could see, in every direction. In the distance, if you were eagle-eyed, you might spot…
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Eternal Sunshine of the....cont'd

...along with the subtly creepy C U L8R series, where a girl finds herself plagued by IM messages and what seems to be a ghos…
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Eternal Sunshine of the....cont'd, cont'd

Then a short stint with a guy who finds out his girlfriend is actually an agent for an international criminal organization – ...
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Detour
Cara stood shivering as her hand surrendered the groaning mailbox handle, the stack of envelopes thumping down the desolate …
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Where Are You, Mom? {64 characters challenge}

I heard you whisper my name. If only I knew where you were, Mom.
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Shoud I?

Should I ask? I really want to. I shouldn’t intrude. Especially since Sam already thinks I’m a stalker.
But… they didn’t…
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Seven Day Journal: Day 2 (Keegan Style)

Day 2 March 30th Time: 11:05 AM
Okay, in this early journaling not much has happened so expect a sequel later today. So with…
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Room 245

As Beth and I walk through the front door to my house we stop in our tracks. My parents are staring at us…well more so me.
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Hungry Much?

Don’t look back now, but that thing has really got an appetitte.
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Stovohobo's Ficlets Best Practices: No More Nonsense

All right, it seems Robotech_Master has basically covered every single one of the things I would’ve said, but I have one mo…
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We All Make Mistakes

With a sigh she pulled the prom dress over her now showing bump.
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Return of the Machines

Runs With Scissors dropped the furnace, beans and all, and jumped down from the Stallion’s wheel. The black objects slowly re…
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Bored to Death, or: Britain's New Plan for World Domination
In just a few minutes, Britain would initiate its plan for world domination, just as it had when it was the most powerful emp…
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Previously on THE PULSE

4944 – Prologue: A description of The Pulse (written by [Pens&Feathers])
5111 – MIT math student, Henry Lu, first experi…
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Previously on THE PULSE (2)

5667 – Henry returns to MIT, but has a second epiphany about the nature of The Pulse.
5698 – Henry re-maps The Pulse, an…
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Plum Pudding?

Perry Plum here, hiding in the pantry from the mad pie maker lady.
So much fruit rolling all over the kitchen here, I might …
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Why can't we make love? (64k challenge)

Because I respect myself too much to do it with a girl like you.
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The Prime Commander Attacks

“How are the creatures progressing?” asked the Prime Commander in a high clipped, almost humorous accent.
“With devastation,...
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Why did you tell her? (64k Challenge)

Because you are a horrible person and you deserve to go to hell.
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Something Like That

I evened my stance and spread my arms out.
Initiate Command #001
I heard the hissing of escaping air as my armor split of…
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Seven Day Journal: Day 2

Hmmm, its my turn! Keegan style!
lol
actually i cant write keeg styleOkay, just found out that Harry has food poisoning fr…
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It Sits to Reason
When he speaks, Reason doesn’t stand. It sits cross-legged in meditation.
She looks exasperated and sighs. “I don’t . . . bu…
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She Leaned Away
She sat still, her eyes downcast. She didn’t want him to see her shining eyes or her pouted lips. He reached out to wrap his …
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Broken Promises, Tortured Mind, Betrayal
I’m tired of being here,
constantly reminded of you.
Your voice haunts me everywhere I turn,
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Thoughts in History
I sit here at my desk asking myself why I can’t focus. I mean it’s history my subject. The subject I get. the subject I love….
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A Time Before

Helen shrieked and stomped out of the tiny hut, her midnight blue dress swirling around her ankles. She shook her head at the…
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Do Dogs Like Raspberries?

I am Rosie Raspberry, trying to avoid being baked into a three berry pie. The chaos in this kitchen is maddening.
The dog ju…
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Cafeteria

I sit down with my gross cafeteria food and seconds later down sits Carter.
“Hey, Haley, what’s new in History? Get it? Hist…
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The Past

Arelia stood, shaking, near the well. The other girls advanced on her, taking in her strange features, pale skin and dark hai…
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The Other Half

Helen stood, shaking as clouds washed over the sun. She felt cold tears prickle at her cheeks.
She’d been given a second cha…
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Go, go Mango!

And there goes Rosie. Maybe I can finally get out of here! Let’s go…. ROLL!
Oh, how rude of me. I am Martha Mango. Soon to…
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Stay With Me

“W..what are you doing here?” I ask as Bernard sits down, heaving for a breath.
“Why.. wouldn’t.. I be.. here?” Bernard dema…
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Memories

Sioni continued North, hoping to reach a town, to find her bearings. She felt different somehow, though she didn’t know why. ...
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I Can See!

I was very weak to begin with, but having stopped the screaming noise in James’ ears wiped me out. I clung to Angela as I lis…
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Start over

I muttered under my breath the entire way, shaking my head. He is such an idiot. He needs to learn some self control. He…
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Cranking the Shield

The machines swarmed around the outsides of the TPs. Some were bipedal, humanoid, but they had advanced beyond that primitive…
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The Mall

We decided to go see a movie tonight. We do this a lot.
“Ahh, the old movie theater.”
“You know it’s in a mall, right? It’s…
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Home

At home and in my room I feel awful. I mean did I really just yell at him? So in this night I missed out on what could of bee…
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And the Kitties Danced the Night Away

Their feet stomped vaguely familiar waltz patterns on the glossy floor, wheeling and pirouetting with their partners.
“Let u…
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Shattered Silence, or From Beyond the Grave
He lies on his bed, head pounding, ears ringing. The music had stopped hours ago, but his headphones were still in his ears. ...
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Friends Close

I awake at a hostel I’d happened upon the day before, I’ll stay here for a couple of days and then pick another one, at rando…
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64k challenge- Your Face was The Death of me

I saw your horrid, repulsing face and then tragically…I died.
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Trouble
I was pretty much in deep shit now. I’d dug my own grave and now there was no way out. I kept thinking back to when it all st…
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The Curse
Madison looked out at the dark clouds rolling over the sky and prayed they’d pass. She didn’t want to test her curse.
Her pr…
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An Apple a G'day Mate

Arnie Apple ere, ow are ya? I’m avin a bit of a bad day ere.
Seems all me mates are getting chopped into salads n pies for s…
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Black

“Lie down in the chair.” The trainer commanded.
I nodded and climbed up. Every inch of my body screamed in surprise as the f…
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Nara

“Oh Holy Hannah, off to church are we?” Natalie said while all the rest of her golden, curly haired, size 0 petit mini skirt …
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48 Hours

During my unconsciousness, I imagined total blackness, then a white line in the middle, and a red line, and a blue line on op…
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Coming to America

At first I just moved around Ireland, careful to only kill people near death to satisfy my hunger. Tristan had told me little…
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Tristan

Not that I meant to just when I get really hungry and really angry, especially because of thinking of Tristan still haunts me…
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Recidivist

I strolled down the street, inspecting my hands, incapable of caring who noticed. The crimson streaks ran around the meaty pu…
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Entry 20

May 18th, 2007
_Last night’s dream was the clearest one yet. At a lagoon, at night, with the beach curving around and palm…
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Amazing Grace {Name Challenge}

Her parents sat in the audience, their eyes were filled with tears of pride. They watched their daughter, Grace, leap across …
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Seven Day Journal: Day 2 cont. (Keegan Style)

Okay, maybe I’ve got something up my sleeve for this Journal session. But there are no promises in this matter. So you’ll jus…
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No Quid Pro Quo for Cindy Lou

“So…” I prompted.
Cindy Lou sighed. “I went into the program like I said, for the reasons that I said. But…when I saw you co…
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Where's the Damn Meaning?

There’s billions of people not one has the damn meaning to life.
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Barny the Banana

Poor arnie got biten. OUCH that must have hurt! I hope it doesn’t hurt too much.
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Down to Me, the Change Has Come

On the one hand, it was really really weird having another person living in my gut, especially if that other person was norma…
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Leo Strikes Again

I stay there for the rest of the day and after about an hour alone with Faith her parents show up.
“We reieved the result a…
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Seven Day Journal: Day Two (Camille)

It is March 30, 08 4:54 PM
Today I had to wake up at 7 IN THE MORNING. Such an ungodly hour to wake up at on the last day of…
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Marauder Mission Complete

The second the explosions went off, shaking the factory, I was ready with my hold-out stun wand. Phil went down like a sack o…
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No Memory

He looks down at me. My head is swimming. Lola looks over at me and gasps as well, because she knows all about Tristen.
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Bad Girls Stop for a Snack

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Secrets.
Kaitlyn had no idea who she could tell.
The one secret that could ruin her life, make her an outcast. The secret that could…
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Bad Girls Finish Their Snack

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My Own World(64k challenge)

I have problems aplenty in my own world, let alone the real one.
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NO ONE ASKED THAT!

On the way to work at the crappy little auto shop on the corner of broke and poor, Jose San Rodriguez was carrying an ounce o…
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Golden Duet
