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How Snails Got Their Shells
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Image via Wikipedia Long time ago, some slugs long to have homes of their own. They observed the squirrels making nest in the trees and rabbits making home in the ground. They wanted a home that will keep them safe. One day, they noticed some insects making their home under the rocks and thought that they could ...7 hours ago -
Forged Dream Chronicles Three
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The starlit night shown through the windows that hung cracked open allowing the cool breeze that drifted with night, like a duck drifts in water. To drift into the bar bringing the feeling of a calm Christmas morning. Sounds of helicopters crossing over the town back and fourth like a bee flying over a field ...11 hours ago -
Testing Times
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I didn’t realise how much she meant to me until now – now I may loose her. She carried my children, assisted my work, accompanied me to every social occasion. Since we’ve been together she’s always there, day and night reliably waiting for me to want her. Please let her be all right. Please let my little car ...11 hours ago -
Murder of a Loved One (Bye-bye, Granny)
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What can cause a young lady to do such a deplorable act as to kill her very own grandmother? The woman took you in to protect you from the evils of living on the street. From her perspective, I tell this true story. Wasn’t being given a roof over your head to shelter you from the rain ...11 hours ago -
Dating Your Bestfriend Isnt Always Good
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I met her last year at school, she was dating my friend. We both had a class together this year, and we started talking, she told me how she and her friends had a notebook they would write to eachother in. One day I started a notebook with her, and everyone else thought I was cheesy and gay, but I knew she loved it. ...13 hours ago -
Up Rise. a Short Story by Ryan Senior
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By Ryan Senior Chapter 1: Canals “Warning Civil Protection team Alfa 6, units spotted in sector 9 Delta” Boomed Overwatch Over the combine radio Leon had, he had stolen it from a sleeping combine cop when he was younger. “Ok guys we have to get moving, Now” shouted Leon as his team of men started to pack ...17 hours ago -
The Drifter/avoiding Slavers
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The Drifter knew that there had been some one in the tree’s he also knew that their were slavers near by in a camp just out side the forest the Out casts had suggested that he move far from their location and avoid them if he could . However the Idea of slaves being taken to the burning city against their will did ...20 hours ago -
The Christmas Sleigh – Chapter 5
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It was still dark outside when I woke the next morning, but I was too excited to sleep in. I went down the stairs in the quiet of the house, and found Jeff wide awake and fully dressed. He was looking out at the barn. I walked over and joined him at the window and said, “C’mon, let’s get everything ready before ...21 hours ago -
Millipede
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Once upon a time, there was a pair of bugs. The loved going fast and was fascinated with the cats that were running very fast in the forest. Image by Per Ola Wiberg (Powi) via Flickr They studied the cat for sometime and finally they approached one of the cats the secret of their speed. The cats told them, ...21 hours ago -
The Forest of Freedom
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I ran past the tall trees with great confidence that I had escaped. Overjoyed I let out a soft chant. After a couple of sprints I stopped at a bush. I sat down undoing the tied feather from my long black hair. My clothes were very sweaty. I took 2 deep breaths with a smile spreading across my face. “I’m free!” I ...22 hours ago -
Dreams
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Someday, I would like to be just like my dad. Well, I would like to have a football career like his at least. My dad was the most renowned football player of all time. There was no question that he was the most excellent running back ever. Although he had a great football career, outside of that, he trashed ...22 hours ago -
I Duditz!
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*Whew!* That was close! I didn’t think I was going to get my #FridayFlash done this week, but I did it. Yes, it’s late, yes, I probably won’t get many views, but I did write something. It’s just short of 1k this time, but I’m not going to quibble. I wrote it and posted it and put it in the collector. ...22 hours ago -
#FridayFlash: Tickets, Please.
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The wheels clattering over the track junction woke him from a restless sleep.He blinked into the strange light. For a moment he couldn’t find the source of the blue-white glow, but gave it no further thought when he couldn’t recall getting on a train in the first place. He slid upright in the uncomfortable vinyl ...22 hours ago -
The Gift: A Christmas Story
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by Margaret Blythe Terry climbed the ...1 day ago -
The Southern Woman
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By Elizabeth Spencer Modern Library I grew up in the so-called New South, where there are sweet tea and skyscrapers, Gone with the Wind screenings in posh movie theaters, and Faulkner reading groups, but no stereotypical southern drawl and no cornbread. In an age where regional identity yields to interstates ...1 day ago -
Patience is a Virture
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Image via Wikipedia Conrad Johnson propped his feet up on his desk and inhaled deeply. This had been by far the hardest teaching year of his career. The worst part of the whole deal was that it wasn’t even Christmas break yet. He had never in his life thought a fourth grade class could be so tough to ...1 day ago -
Best books of 2009: The Atlantic
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The December issue of the Atlantic features critic Benjamin Schwarz’s picks for the twenty-five best books of 2009 . It’s an excellent list – an eclectic mixtures of novels, short stories, and nonfiction, the latter consisting primarily of works of history and biography. (Alas no genre fiction, but no surprises ...1 day ago -
In The Wee Sma’ Hours in The Country.
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It was one of those moments walking home from the pub where I saw a field and thought, hang on…never noticed that before…i know I’ll walk across it…maybe it’s a shortcut! It would have been too except that i quickly became knee-deep in glor ..cow poo and mud…and then as i neared the road a car came along ...1 day ago -
The Great Escape
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My old cat brought down a female blackbird, and brought it in in her mouth…she plopped it down in front of me looking very pleased with her sacrificial offering to her God of Thunder…(that’s the name I go by with all the local cats)…next thing the fucker does a loop the loop from a lying position and is ...1 day ago -
Lesbian Cowboys: Erotic Adventures
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Edited by Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia Cleis Press Lesbian Cowboys: Erotic Adventures is a collection of fifteen short stories that, as promised, feature lesbian cowboys. On average, the stories run approximately fourteen pages or so, which results in the feeling that there is not much in the way of plot ...1 day ago
