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• Last Option

  by Textual_Phoenix 2 months ago

  I know I only have seconds left. I sweep my right leg around, trying to make it look like I’m aiming for his ribs. He falls f…

• Victory

  by N555champ /\and/\ X-Ninja 3 months ago

  My balled-up fist hit him square in the eye.

  I turned to the crowd as his body fell to the mat, bouncing limply off the tau…

• Well Played

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) 4 months ago

  I lay flat on my back, exhausted. Normally pickleball is played to 11, but one has to win by two points.
  By the one of us won…

• The Coffee War [Starbucks Challenge]

  by OrangeOreos 4 months ago

  This was the day.

  The day everything would be decided.

  The green aprons versus the white.

  Two opposing lines stared each o…

• Star Wars: Oil and Cigars

  by thebetweenspace 8 months ago

  The celebration was roaring at the Death Star Disco.

  “I have to hand it to you, Roland,” Captain Hiller said over celebrato…

• A Bit Of A Shock

  by thebetweenspace 8 months ago

  In fact, I wiped the floor with both of them. I was the last man standing. They were so broken and bruised that Jodi was besi…

• Albrecht's End (XLVI)

  by Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) 9 months ago

  Steel and Magic was a strategy we had discussed during a role-playing session that we thought, if the game were real, would…

• Little Victories, and a Little Jimmy

  by THX 0477 10 months ago

  Rather than risk wayward glances, Renard swung his legs over the side of the bed and sat up facing away. He could feel her co…

• Fencing

  by `crayola. about 1 year ago

  The butterflies flap their wings like angry bees making my stomach rise and fall. The blade feels like a steel girder in my h…

• A shift in the wind

  by Nascent Writer about 1 year ago

  Hours slipped yet John could only think about the next wave of convulsing sobs that would surely come. Without the strength t…