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Afterburner
Colin Roberts
Eric Speen's life did not flash before him as he prayed it would when he thought about dying... (5,000 Words) |
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And I Am His
Dena Ward-Horton
A true story of love, respect and grief as one woman remembers her husband and the words that bound them together... (1,330 Words) |
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Angel
Fadzlishah Johanabas Rosli
An adaptation from Sarah McLachlan's Angel... (1,250 Words) |
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Are You a Rock or a Sieve?
Mike Oppenheim
A small-down doctor receives his baptism of fire in a big city hospital... |
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The Arrow Did it
Barbara Mather
How getting hit by cupid's arrow changed my life... |
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The Avenues of the Soul
Barbara Smith
Emotions are deep and complex... |
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Beginnings
Joseph Simiyu Wegesa
Musombi proposes to Nanguti, who's a bit hard-headed... |
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Between The Rails
Michael S Jones
Nat Ruddle was passed out again, only this time he was nestled between the steel rails of train tracks... |
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Binding Ties
Joseph Simiyu Wegesa
There are ties that bind young men, a young man and his future wife, a young woman and her future mother-in-law, a young man and his mama... |
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The Butterfly Man
David Godden
It has been seven long years since I was last in this town. Seven years spent hidden away in hospitals and institutions where I was monitored and observed... (12,800 Words) |
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By Any Other Name
Barbara Smith
The scream echoed through the forest... |
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A Centre of Excellence
David Godden
A very peculiar English predisposition for ceremony and tradition exposed for what it really all means... (1,864 Words) |
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Chance Encounter
Allen Mealer
After many years of about writing, I saw a writing exercise thatmade me finally pick up my pen and start. The setting, characters andelements were provided; the rest was up to me. "Chance Encounter" is the result of that exercise... |
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D and the Art of Learning
Bhavna Rai
This is a personal story about making friends, losing them and yet gaining from the experience... |
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The Darkness
Tony Benci
Sometimes the simpliest of situations can be monumental. The aim with this piece was to write a short story under 300 words and it was bloody hard. Try it... its also a lot of fun... |
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Dazed and Confused
Joseph Simiyu Wegesa
Hey, this is fiction. Four years of high school and no sex?... |
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Death of a Fool
Shamrock Hoax
The setting sun, ending a dreary day, foretold the coming of a quiet evening. Another day ended by the bleakness of the oncoming darkness... |
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The Death of an Ordinary Man
Heather Ralph
Mostly philosophical—the actual events are not as significant as their implication... |
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The Departure
William R. Matlock
A young ex-U.S. Marine's last day at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas... |
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Diamond Shine
Joseph Simiyu Wegesa
In South Africa, Vivian and Nzote share pain... |
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A Dog's Life
Tania Hershman
Mrs Morisson lives alone and her life is quite in order, thank you. Then Edward arrives, and his added hearbeatthrows her order into a somewhat less predictable state... |
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Downtown
Stephen Cashmore
Young paper boy doing his round doesn't know that grim events of the previous night are about to change his life... |
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Dreamscape
Barbara Smith
Sometimes it’s hard to separate dream from reality... (1,790 Words) |
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Family Affair
Blanco Tesoke
"I'm here to serve a warrant on Joseph Dawes; is he around?" he said, a scowl on his face. There was tobacco juice in the corners of his mouth... |
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Fortune in a Cookie
Barbara Mather
Personal essay about falling in love and the permanence of that feeling in our life... |
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Four Wild Pitches
Steve Rodriguez
A major league baseball player attempts to escape the memories of a humiliating performance in the World Series... |
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Getting it Straight
Pat Longbrake
In hope, I imagined the thumping of his heart melting the layers of ice glaze that had surely encased it... |
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The Girl and the Lamp
Jessica Scott
It was only ten past six... (1,100 Words) |
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The Good Hearts
Pat Longbrake
Lily had buried her ghosts, claiming no regrets, then came the letter... |
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Gorilla From Gabon
Professor Klaus Anton von Borgengru
"The Amazing Adventures of Professor von Borgengruft". Encounters with Gorillas, Lions, Hippos, Camels, Mules etc. from the Gabonese Jungle to the Siberian Tundra... |
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Green With Envy
Simon Robinson
Grim goings-on at the golf club... |
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The Hole In His Shoe
Robbie Blake
Books cluttered Andrew's desk… but the real clutter was on the computer in front of him... |
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If You Want to Get Ahead, Get a Hat
Barbara Smith
Hats are more than just a fashion accessesory... |
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In Eden’s Innocence
Joseph Simiyu Wegesa
Her life was an Eden; innocent and simple yet satisfactory in all ways. But in the same way sin visited Eden and destroyed paradise, this plague made
a horrible entrance in Eden’s innocence and broughthell to an unsuspecting people... (1,075 Words) |
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Intervention of Another Kind
Kamran Shahin
You know all those times when you wonder how it could have turned out if only ...? Well, sometimes you're better off not knowing.... (1,682 Words) |
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Interlude
Kendra Leigh Giamario
"Philip, I'm lonely." Those words echoed again through the manse in the middle of the desert, and the world once more intruded on Lynn's tranquility... |
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I Should Have Been a Pair of Ragged Claws
Chris Bloom
I wrote this six years ago, when I was 21, so please forgive my youthful pretense. Thank God it didn’t work out like this... (1,710 Words) |
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Just Like the Ocean
Jason Toncic
I stared in an endless glare like looking at the bottom of a well but continuing to search for a bottom beneath the visible one... (1,500 Words) |
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Let Babylon Fall
Justin Toomey
An epiphany made as time progresses one autumn day in Ohio... |
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Letters From the Back
Shalini S. Miskelly
A young pregnant woman writes to her friend, explaining her everyday frustrations, amusements and observations.... |
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Lonely Hearts
Jo Merrey
A new homeowner, freshly single and enjoying the freedoms of solitude is invaded by an interferring mother... |
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Missionary
Joseph Simiyu Wegesa
A young missionary and his teacher wife come to
live with Musombi and Nanguti... (2,125 Words) |
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My Darling Jessica
Elizabeth S Ott
I only hope you will read these words in their entirety, hear my plea, and know that I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart... |
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Never Let Your Barber Tell You a Story
Vishy Poosala
In the end, neither his story nor my haircut ended up like I expected it to. But, in a strange way, he supplied with his story what he took away with the hair! ... |
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One Stormy Night
Carla King
The car slid to the right and off the road, the back tires sinking... |
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A Penny's Worth
William R Matlock
I was born on October 8, 1911, at the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania... |
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The Perfect Friend
David Godden
Piers sits before me now, silent and reflective in his cogitation of all we have discussed and all that I have laid bare this night...(2,138 Words) |
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Perfect Ride
Simon Robinson
Like many of the murdered, I know my killer... |
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Pet Psychic
Steve Rodriguez
A business executive seeks the help of a pet psychic.... (2,450 Words) |
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Plane Crash
Ted Wheeler
This is the true story of our family crashed into the sea and swimming
out underwater as the plane was sinking... |
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Remember The Magic
Tony Benci
I remember reading IT and thinking that Mr King was crazy... as if we'd forget our childhood... then I thought... damn, perhaps we do... |
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Requiem
Barbara Smith
She had found it at last, the thing she had been searching for... |
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Romancing the Stone
Mohan Kumar
Every rock has a story... |
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Room for Granny
Mae A Farek
Granny realized she was in for bad news when she saw the administrator striding through the door... |
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The Sandstorm
Shakano Vaedril
During a violent sandstorm, derrick grapples with his memories and feelings. Comparing his life with the sandstorm, he must make a decision ... but what? |
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Sisters
Joseph Simiyu Wegesa
An African-American woman visits Africa and learns something in the process... (1,745 Words) |
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Skinny Dogs & White Lightning
Robert Cornell
There seemed to be more and more of them these days... (1,500 Words) |
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So Nice
Dejavu
People are so nice. Grace hates that. In fact, she's had it up to HERE with nice and she's not gonna take it any more... (1,637 words.) |
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Splittin Granite
Tony Benci
I ask indulgence with this one. It is something I have written for its own sake and make no appologies for the "Aussie"-ness of it, it had to be written that way - To a man's dearest friend... (750 words) |
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Stir the Pudding
Tony Benci
When was the last time you threw a flour bomb at the visiting head of a represive regime or sat, arms linked, in the way of a bull-dozer at the start of a freeway project? Chances are, never... |
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Taking Chances
Barbara Smith
She felt safe in the water... (1,090 Words) |
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'Til Death Do Us Part
Mark Whalen
Everyone including his and her parents figured Rocko had forgotten his protection one too many times and had finally knocked Bunny up... (1,834 Words)
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The Trail of Zeno Curry
Berg
"You don't get the other half of the money until you kill Sevens
Calderon”... (1,708 Words) |
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Trash in the Alley
Andrew Freer
The story is about a beggar living in a big city and a predicament he finds himself in...(1,768 words) |
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A True Hero
David Godden
A war hero shares his terrible secret... (7,141 Words) |
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Two way Traffic
Barbara Smith
A picture of the old woman in the paper flashed into her mind, frightened eyes, in a face marred by livid bruises... (1,760 words) |
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What Lies Beyond
David Godden
What really happens to us when we die? ... (1,030 Words) |
