Cherrypicked stories
Nightmare on Third Street - Chapter Seven
Dominic and I walked down to the park about thirty minutes after I got off of the phone with Jake.
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The Outcast - Chapter Seventeen
I notice Marina and Sasha watching me worriedly.
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Nightmare on Third Street - Chapter Five
I looked up tiredly from my hands as Dominic bounded into the room, a smile on his face as he looked at me.
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EAGLE WATCHING story
How would you like to watch an eagle, zoom and zip from thermals to clouds and back again? Read the story and be part of the journey. Richard and Esther love writing contemporary stories.
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Musically Useless (For Caldwell)
You writing my story has prompted me to try and write it too!
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Love returns
It was your love that rattled his teeth like small stones, shifting in the sea.
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Nightmare on Third Street - Chapter Four
Kim dropped us off at my house around seven or so, though I couldn't be sure, since my watch had been lost three days ago in an excellent game of soccer.
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Elena
"You must be so happy!", her mother exclaimed on the phone. "Must I?" Elena wondered to herself.
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Musically Ungifted
Love amongst the ivories
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WARREN
Elaine inserted her final clip into the hot-barrelled SG99. Only thirty rounds left. Thirty rounds between her and oblivion.
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I Am Folklore
Growing Up Competition Entry
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The Cranky Man
As I get older, I find myself less inclined to grace and tolerance towards those who show none for others. I teeter-totter on the edge, berating lack-of-indicators,
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Sci-Fi
I was thinking about how much I like sci-fi earlier this afternoon when a spaceman came up to my door and put a letter through my letterbox. Actually on second thoughts it may have been a postman.
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Most people don't realise
Sixty percent of all European brown bears have unfulfilled ambitions; in Romania, they are known to harangue the mainstream poetry presses
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Always Read the Label Chapter 15 Counting to Four
I wish I could say a mystical force entered the room and took us all into a special magical place where we found ourselves able to communicate without words like long lost brothers.
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SONG OF THE LOONS story
The boy wanted his family to work things out like the loons, to be a family, at peace. "Could this really happen?" he wondered.
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TSSB 1979 - Competition Entry
What is that in the blue and yellow cape?
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The Gossip Mongerers
The Gossip Mongerers (10th June 2008, 12.11pm) You say something; I’ll let a bit slip; we’ll hint and circumlocute without actually spilling the beans, because our beans are magic ones.
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Without a Song
Prompted by inspiration point.
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