By My Side

A shame, is it not, for a rose to be cut from its stalk before it can reach full bloom. I am a newlywed at the young age of twenty-five, yet my life is to be taken from me. My existence has been nothing but tragedy. When I was six, we met with a car...

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Me and You

**A** Me and you. We haven't spoken since yesterday. I hesitate before calling and I feel the universe fracture. The fear in my stomach is overwhelming, and I give into it before committing to dial. I feel sick at my cowardice. I hope you'll get...

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1000 Words: When Coming Out to a Stranger Isn't So Bad

I agreed, and here i was, filling out forms in the university's psychology services building. what would it be like? my throat was dry, knowing i would soon have to explain why i had come in to talk.

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Enemy, Chapter 1

Chapter 1 "To any ship in range of this message: My name is Ensign Nathanial Hopewell. I'm the executive officer of the ILS freighter Nuara. My ship was damaged during a jump-core overload and crashed on this planet on the 3rd of December, 2357. I am...

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Enemy, Chapter 6

Chapter 6 29 December 2357 "It looks like there's a greenish patch of vegetation at seventy five degrees," I said into the microphone of the small transmitter clipped to my earlobe. There wasn't much my small spacial mapping computer could tell me...

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... And No Word from You

" ... three months, and no word from you. Why won't you acknowledge me? That I'm here?" Field's paws held the letter. Blue-grey eyes squinted, scanning. Searching in the dim, dim light (on this, a young spring's night). "Let me know you're...

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Third Arc Crimson Moon: Prologue

Isaac wanted a boy as well but he did a sort of 'reverse-psychology' with fate. he bet _against_ rebecca despite his hopes in the hope that he would be wrong. if it was a girl, she'd be samantha and rebecca would owe isaac twenty solars.

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First Journey: The Black Wolf and The Golden Retriever - Prologue

_IRIDESCENT_ _Let the shackles be no more_ * * * # **First Journey:** **The** **Black** **Wolf** **and the** **Golden Retriever** Chapter 0 - Prologue the eyes spoke the truth even when no words were uttered "You're finally...

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Mute

The dreams are frightening You lay awake for hours Praying for the peace of slumber That will not come When you close your heavy eyes finally The dreams are waiting As they always are The shadow of a man The glint of a blade's edge The...

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The Willow: Story One

The Willow: Story One It's like a curtain... she thought, her eyes wide and her hand over her mouth. Reaches the ground and everything. A rhythmic swishing filled the air around her, the sound of soft breezes weaving through the rope-like foliage...

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I used to think

I used to think we solved our problems. Now I know we just push them far away from us. I used to think that... I used to think. Tiles are great. They mean reason. The world is not reasonable. The world was once, and very much still is, chaotic....

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