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• Cover it (the apology challenge)

  by Insert Pen Name Here 3 months ago

  This is just to say

  that saying

  doesn’t cover it

  that nothing

  will ever cover it

  That I’ve messed it up

  so big time

  ...

• The United States of Nuclear Holocaust

  by uselessness 3 months ago

  Ground zero was in the financial district, like the terrorism experts predicted. But it wasn’t terrorism, it was just an acci…

• Exit Dragon and Sphinx

  by Ana Cristina 3 months ago

  “Had I known you were sick, Isabelle and I never would have left you alone. When you slept in, Samantha, I thought it was sim…

• Seeking Forgiveness

  by Steve Fairweather 4 months ago

  Each day that passed after that fateful moment was an empty void where once such beauty could have filled. It was hard for hi…

• Sorry

  by John Perkins 4 months ago

  His eyes moved slowly up from his drink. The smoke filled room could not hide the sadness and disappointment in her eyes. Her…

• An Unwelcome Prescription

  by Ana Cristina 4 months ago

  I waited until Candace and the maid had left the room and then pushed back the covers and ran to the table. I had to hold the…

• This is Just to Say

  by Misheru O'ku 4 months ago

• Nobody Ate the Plums [The Apology Challenge]

  by THX 0477 4 months ago

  Another long night of fending off the walking dead and my own sense of foreshortened future had left me bereft of hope and in…

• Finale [This is Just to Say- Apology Challenge]

  by Music-Hearted 4 months ago

  I throw my last possession into my bag, and my last picture of you into the trash can.

  My breathing is staggered; Perhaps th…

• Maybe I Shouldn't Have Done That

  by uselessness 4 months ago

  This is just to say that I don’t really have allergies.

  I mean, I do… but just food allergies. I can’t eat leafy green veget…