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• Pondering One's Ponderings [Infamous Beginning Challenge]

  by OrangeOreos about 1 month ago

  It was a dark and stormy night.

  It had felt like it, anyway, with all the noise of that falling snow and the sudden darkness…

• Megan to the Rescue

  by Ana Cristina about 1 month ago

  Thank goodness Brenden didn’t take the bus. He lived right in front of school, so he had the luxury of just crossing the stre…

• Sinking and Floating (egnellahc sdrawkcab)

  by Valley Fey/Pinprick 2 months ago

  Violet breathed a sigh of relief as the box drifted out of sight in the turquoise water. It’s simple mosaic surface winked at…

• The Ballad of Limpy McPhanger [Epic Challenge]

  by THX 0477 2 months ago

  When tales be told round campfires a blazin
  Whether true, trumped up or stranger
  No one needs rhyme, no one needs reason
  Ta b…

• Love Conquers Fear

  by Mistress Elsha Hawk 2 months ago

  Hannie’s eyes fluttered, she smelled damp earth and tasted blood. Her ankle hurt. A lot.

  “Hannie!” a bass voice bellowed fai…

• A Lover

  by OboeTheres 3 months ago

  Ah! He was running off again!
  When she’d ordered him, she had been under the impression that he would be loyal, and always st…

• Digging Themselves Out With Spoons

  by Nouvelle Bardot 3 months ago

  “I don’t know what else to do,” he said, almost pleading with her, “Whenever I think of breakouts, I always think of prisoner…

• Island Life [When I Grow Up Challenge]

  by THX 0477 3 months ago

  I roll out of the hammock onto warm sand. Eyes blinking in the tropical sun, I stroll into the breeze. With a smile I rap a k…

• Edmund Extracts the High School Students

  by thebetweenspace 4 months ago

  Edmund the Extractor received a text message: plz help: hostage in La Vega High School gym: have $.

  His attention wasn’t p…