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• Yellow Umbrella

  by [pens&feathers] 7 months ago

  I see him always – sometimes at night, under the dull orange glow of the street lamps, sometimes as I am leaving work, someti…

• The Not So Silent Accident

  by madwriter108 9 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…

• Of Shoelaces and an Untied Life

  by uselessness 9 months ago

  This is no stroll.

  A neighborhood rises around me, stately forms of hundred-year-old Eastlakes shrouded in elms lining the…

• Inhibitions

  by `crayola. 10 months ago

  The cement was still fresh when she walked outside. They all started talking about the possibilities of leaving fresh wet cem…

• Guidance (Daniel Gate)

  by Compound Fracture about 1 year ago

  Why did he always seem to be in more of a rush to get someplace on his day off than during the week? You’d think working as a…

• Abandoned Teddy Bear

  by SilentlySkeptic about 1 year ago

  The abandoned teddy bear unwillingly stared at the sidewalk. You would not imagine all the “stuff” people do when they think …

• Sidewalk miracles

  by Insert Pen Name Here about 1 year ago

  The colors, chalky and indistinct, zig-zagged around the gray of the pavement, forming pictures only the four year old artist…

• Scrambled Egg

  by Yeah Write! about 1 year ago

  The city streets were flooded with sunlight. The thermostat read 113. It was 10 o’clock so it would only get hotter for the n…

• Looking Back

  by Nouvelle Bardot about 1 year ago

  It’s been a three hours and sixteen minutes since Adrien’s phone call. People are driving me crazy today, it’s unreal. I can’...

• haunted story 2

  by Dr. Lew about 1 year ago

  When the bushes rustled for the first time, she didn’t think much of it, a cool breeze, maybe, but when the nearest bushes le…