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• Journal of the Disheartened Hero [OTOC diary challenge]

  by THX 0477 13 days ago

  November 22, 1944

  Another train left today, headed across the border towards that Hell men created. I should be proud, happy…

• Salvation or Something Else

  by THX 0477 about 1 month ago

  I’d hate to be thought of as prideful, but I was feeling pretty good about myself. My ill-fated high jump over the fence had …

• Salvation Wtih Luscious Curves

  by THX 0477 about 1 month ago

  Wingtips, despite their deceptively swift nomenclature, are not built for speed. Fortunately, wearing your pants somewhere ha…

• The Word What Did Him In

  by THX 0477 2 months ago

  It was a cold September evening, unseasonably cold, I’d add. The town, the whole town, met down by the new barn, the one th…

• Your Own Beat

  by Stovohobo 3 months ago

  The cold, bitter wind tossed the man’s locks to and fro, dancing a cold, bitter death waltz with them. The frothing waters on…

• The Morning of the Race

  by THX 0477 3 months ago

  The morning of the race was hot and humid. Old Dr. Pritchitt wiped sweat from his brow. He’d delivered so many babies, brough…

• Found

  by YodaOnCrack 5 months ago

  And there I stand before you as you drift in and out of consciousness. You look up at me and smile. “Yes, it’s me,” I say, “I…

• Desperate to Find, Desperate to be Found

  by THX 0477 5 months ago

  Perhaps for the first time, perhaps for the hundredth time, you hear the bells. There is something in their ringing, their mo…

• Reach Out and Touch Faith (Lyric Challenge)

  by Batak Beatrix 6 months ago

  “Your own personal Jesus! Someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares!”

  It was plastered all over the news and morning p…