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Despair Came Knocking

By seannelson on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

"Despair came knocking at my door, and I let her in for a little while." - Daniel Johnston I'm listening to "Twilight" by Elliott Smith who created a lot of beautiful music

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Don't let me fool you

By Louise178 on Sat, 21 Aug 2010

In this world I fly solo

Fantasy

LILLIAN AND THE ITALIANS.1

By davidgee on Sat, 21 Aug 2010

Lillian Rutherford arrives in Venice to look for her 'prodigal' son Andrew.

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Bull's Eye

By Steve Button on Sat, 21 Aug 2010

It stared up at me, the lidless eye in thick white fat, a fixed look of one-eyed surprise. The object was dissection, to get at how this unseeing eye worked, peer and poke

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Aunt Audrey

By tessdavies on Sat, 21 Aug 2010

Aunt Audrey What would you choose to take with you? What objects would remind you of who you are in the new home you haven’t chosen?

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Hope

By chooselife on Fri, 20 Aug 2010

First of the season

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Circus of Unheard Voices

By rae1 on Fri, 20 Aug 2010

Where everything is not always as it seems....

Biography

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A Dream I had

By d.best on Fri, 20 Aug 2010

Just a dream I had

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didgeridoos (Recycled) - IP piece

By chooselife on Fri, 20 Aug 2010

I took a sledgehammer to it and dislocated all its joints.

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Uncrowned (i, ii & iii)

By lenchenelf on Fri, 20 Aug 2010

IP 60 words

Historical Fiction

No More Piano Lessons

By barryj1 on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

Muriel Beagle was an awful piano teacher. An abomination! Thirty minutes - that's all she allotted per lesson, and most days she started late or was interrupted by

August Rain

By Louise178 on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

August rain, middle

Spiritual

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(60)Escalation

By alex_tomlin on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

He was looking at me funny, so I tell him to stop looking, and he says it’s a free country, so I tell him I’m free to smack him in the head so he push me, so I push him back and then he say a bad

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St. Tropez

By luigi_pagano on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

Au naturel.

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Anchoas y Agonia

By caribou_ on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

Manuela stared out of the canning factory window and thought about Mount Buciero. That dark beast she had loved as a child was calling to her.

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The Ceroc Years - Number Fourteen

By h jenkins on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

Apologies to Ben Johnson (1572 - 1637)

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The Ceroc Years - Number Thirteen

By h jenkins on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

Apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)

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Lucky Lottery

By gouri_guha on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

Inspiration Point

Other

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IP - Reflection

By Margharita on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

Bit of a late response to the 60 word IP.

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More Toilet Humour

By glennvn on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

This week, Tuesday to be exact, I got a parasite and bacterial infection in my stomach, possibly from a paté and baguette snack I had for lunch from a street stall.

Beheld

By amlee on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

Stalker? Viewpoint of the jilted, wilted unloved?

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IP - How did it come to this?

By IsntLifeBrilliant on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

It's a cruel place to be.

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Do Not Pass Me

By Norm_Clifford on Thu, 19 Aug 2010

She kept trying to catch up with me at high speed.

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Flood

By lenchenelf on Wed, 18 Aug 2010

Poem

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Simplicity (Inspiration Point)

By MistakenMagic on Wed, 18 Aug 2010

60 word inspiration point: a lizard and an orchard.

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Harley8

By celticman on Tue, 17 Aug 2010

The girls hit London, or London hits them...

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ABCtales serial (alternative) part 5

By darkenwolf on Tue, 17 Aug 2010

Hours past - for a lot of them I sat staring at the screen full of text, I walked the dogs, I vacuumed the house and still Susan didn’t return.

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Blackberry Picking

By maudsy on Tue, 17 Aug 2010

That's a better version

The Fall of France

By Harry Buschman on Tue, 17 Aug 2010

All gone. Every bit of it gone. Why am I here? One short summer, a lifetime ago.

Non-fiction

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The Guinea Thief - Chapter 12 The road to London

By Netty Allen on Tue, 17 Aug 2010

Jack kept a close eye on the road through the window of the Half Moon to ensure they didn’t miss the stage.

Historical Fiction

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Cote d'Azur

By Silver Spun Sand on Tue, 17 Aug 2010

You stripped off on the beach...

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University Challenge

By luigi_pagano on Tue, 17 Aug 2010

Winners and losers.

End of days 11

By rjnewlyn on Tue, 17 Aug 2010

A serial of 200-word chapters. In the darkness at the heart of the hospital lie shadow and flame.

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The Language of Cats

By JDHuxley on Mon, 16 Aug 2010

A short (1,300 word) story about a transcendent cat. Feedback would be most appreciated.

They couldn't stop tickling each other

By mcmanaman on Sun, 15 Aug 2010

They always read the same books, side by side in bed, turning pages simultaneously.

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Forgetting

By MistakenMagic on Sun, 15 Aug 2010

I fled England like a fugitive. Exiled, I flew south to a forgotten corner of France to tuck myself away in a world of orchards and stone cottages.

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How to cheat death

By celticman on Sun, 15 Aug 2010

Just a little ramble.

Castle In The Clouds, Chapters 33 & 34

By brian cross on Sun, 15 Aug 2010

Chapter Thirty Three Veronica clung to Gibbings. She had seen a way out. 'Come John, the rear door,' she said forcing him up.

Certificate 18

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They weren't Catherine Wilson

By darkenwolf on Sat, 14 Aug 2010

I have never really been one for company; I’m awkward and uncomfortable in the company of others; I feel constrained, bound. It’s what I am; who I am and I’ve never had the desire to change.

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Nothing to prove

By hoalarg1 on Sat, 14 Aug 2010

I had a feeling for paper, not new but urgent, It was ferried by thoughts, numbed from being stuck in muds of memories,

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(I.P.) 60 Word Poem - Gypsy Sue

By luigi_pagano on Sat, 14 Aug 2010

Brief encounter.

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HOWL AND THE PUSSY-KAT.7

By davidgee on Sat, 14 Aug 2010

Jason Howl meets Marilyn Monroe at his agent's funeral. AGAIN, VOYAGER is ready to start shooting.

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Blessed are the Children

By shoe on Sat, 14 Aug 2010

like any miracle...

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Cleaning

By mcmanaman on Fri, 13 Aug 2010

'Your drinking has got out of control' my cleaner tells me

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Zoe's Garden

By Silver Spun Sand on Fri, 13 Aug 2010

Her hands shake more of late...bending down a painful process...

Biography

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Risk Street 3

By celticman on Thu, 12 Aug 2010

a ghoul in the house.

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The Loveliest Girl

By barryj1 on Thu, 12 Aug 2010

Among the Old Orchard Beach cognoscenti, Cassie Moffat was considered town slut. Whether her lurid reputation was justified or not wasn't really open for debate.

Certificate 18

End of days 10

By rjnewlyn on Wed, 11 Aug 2010

A serialisation of 200-word chapters. The illusion of the hospital begins to break apart, or does it?

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The Stairs

By Alan Green on Wed, 11 Aug 2010

The stairs had always been there, but they weren’t there the day before. The first step was in the middle of the park. Just past the slide and the swings, next to the duck pond.

Fantasy

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Increation

By jennifer on Wed, 11 Aug 2010

Increation (11th August, 2010) I cannot shape my destiny with stories or bring you to existence with a rhyme, I cannot create the perfect lead or foil,

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...the wisdom to know the difference...

By darkenwolf on Wed, 11 Aug 2010

I looked at my watch again; 10:42, two minutes later than the last time I’d looked.

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Ode to the Daily Mail

By Kit_Caless on Wed, 11 Aug 2010

Fanatical fecal folks find fault in 'feral' youth. Under unbelieving umbrage they utter untruths and Cast catastrophic consequences caused by Calais.

Certificate 12

Catnapper

By Mae on Wed, 11 Aug 2010

This episode really happened [with a little poetic licence] to a friend of my parents'.

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My Ears Made Me Rich.

By Canary Islander on Wed, 11 Aug 2010

In my childhood I was blessedly healthy in every respect except for a particular problem with my hearing. My problem was background noise, and I certainly grew up with a lot of that.

Lunch With a Dream Girl

By donignacio on Wed, 11 Aug 2010

Steven talks to the girl of his dreams at lunch!

The Chase

By Moses74 on Tue, 10 Aug 2010

She chases me around the garden, and I laugh. It reminds me of a better time. A simpler time. Playing kiss chase as adults seemed so frivolous, so joyful.

Horror

Certificate 12

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Disenchanted

By MistakenMagic on Tue, 10 Aug 2010

It's a longer one, but I really appreciate you taking the time to read ;) I stand before the mirror, let my dress crumple to the floor, strip until all that is left is my necklace...