The Way of the World
By Jessiibear
The harsh reality.
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Abigail
This story is a daring move... An old short I wrote years ago. Have changed the tense and POV.
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Davy Jones' Locker
We all find comfort in different forms. Which steals us from reality.
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Searching You
Something I whipped up.
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Inevitable
Kate has no voice, so she tries to solve her problems differently. Her fate, however, is inevitable.
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Mental Illness
No one likes it. So you keep quiet. You keep quiet until you explode. And when that happens, oh boy are you in for a hell of a treat. Can you breathe...
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Dearest Catastrophe
You never think something like this will happen to you-- Then it does.
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Tug of War
Our rope strains. Snaps in half. A table toppled. A dealt deck, confetti. An 80s record wrecked; a silent song. Your brain is a towel, wringing out...
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Can We Bleed?
They deliver you to the door of our shimmer-glass home, your blank face, custom companion molded from his. Same lips. Same laugh. But your voice— it...
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Pyre Bits
I lay down slow, my bones like wax— and wish you’d lay yours beside me, in the fire pit. Flame would claim us, erase our tracks— while strangers sing...
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She Sleeps
The night I got robbed, I couldn’t move. I was 18, youngest one in the shelter, lying on the smoking bench out back. I’d come in late with too many...
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The Last Customer
The diner was nearly empty, the kind of dead quiet that only came after midnight—booth lights dimmed to amber, pie case humming softly in the back...
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To Tell You The Truth — Part 1/2
You were somebody once. Awards, panels. Interviews that felt more like coronations. You told other people’s life stories better than they could...
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To Tell You The Truth — Part 2/2
The next week, you leave the TV on for background noise and sit at the kitchen table, waiting. She’s late. You tell yourself it’s just traffic. Or...
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