Cherrypicked stories
The Dare and the Dark
We’d been smoking behind the assembly hall for a while after detention - not talking much, just leaning up against the wall trying to pretend we were cool -when Jake turned to me with that annoying
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Mexico
the love of a beautiful woman on a beautiful day lights up the dark years long after she has gone
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Now or Never 7
The tail-end of treatment and back into the big bad world
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Out Of The Mists Of Dreaming
She came not out of the golden skies of the mornings, but out of the heavy mists that haunted our dreams.
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Celestial Puppeteer
The devil never really need fear For good is good for which it adheres If right is wrong and wrong is right It's finally time to call this fight. A no holds barred, jugular throat spar
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31 Falkner Street (9)
‘Your road is really scary.’ Kerry told me. I felt insulted. ‘How is it?’
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Counting backwards from ten
Anyone who's lain on a gurney and had nothing but a hospital gown between them and the knife will get the title......
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The Guinea Thief - Chapter 13 - the merciless
Jack and Delphine visit Robert on the prison hulk
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Waiting for the Sun
The Santa Ana winds were thunderously howling on Venice Boulevard, but the slippery streets were nonetheless at ease with the silence of the moon.
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Who'll Pay the Piper?
“Piper Alpha...one hundred and sixty-four missing...”
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31 Falkner Street (8)
My name is Ella and I am 31 years old.
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Timeo Danaos et Dona Ferentes
While I alone traverse the walls
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What would Junie B. Jones do?
"Mr. Jacobson sniffs little girls' bicycle seats," eight year old Benjamin Carter announced cavalierly as though the topic made for polite dinner conversation.
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31 Falkner Street (7)
Night out
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Whore
With the cool night air caressing her forehead, she reassures herself that she is still here.
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31 Falkner Street (6)
Paddy
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End of days 13
A story in 200-word chapters. At the far end of an asylum, the celestial war reaches its conclusion.
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Yellowstone
Shoveling snow from abandoned rooftops in Yellowstone would do me. That kind of raptured loneliness, wrapped in a blank white silence, the world a crisp new page
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100 Stories for Pakistan
My attempt. Any help or suggestions-grammar, word choice, spelling- gratefully received.
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