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Charcoal and Caramel

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Mom's hair used to be strawberry blonde. The sort of blonde you would only see on Ame

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Paint By Numbers Killer

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“Another one,” Detective Hank Langdon said. His partner, Detective Hen Ball, took i

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The Weeper’s Fall

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The day of my 13th kill, a special number for obvious reasons. Years ago, I couldn’t

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Imposter

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Star Crossed

wyvern ✦

1 min read

Twinkle twinkle little star

And now I know where you are

Up above the sky so bright

Then you vanished in the night

Blood drips on the murder site

Blood that is still true starlight

Twinkle twinkle little star

You could never get that far…...

Poetry

Crime

Light And Shadow

Helene FORMEL

1 min read

Where there is light, there is always a shadow close behind

Because what is light without its shadows

How can you see shadows without light ?

Could a shadow overthrow the light ?

I know a shadow who wants to shine on its own

Leave the rest and live alone

A shadow wants to be free

A shadow plans it’s escape

A shadow embûches the light

A shadow kills the light

A shadow dies

Because there is no s...

Poetry

Crime

Lake Secrets

DjinniRB

2 min read

Stiff from the cold, Lachlan fanned his fingers. The rolling motion reminded Lachlan of a fishtail and his dad’s teachings. Dad taught him everything he knew about fishing. After Mom left, the two of them spent hours on Fenner Lake. Those were his happiest memories. Until London.

He’d met London at Stewie’s Grille. She was a trainee waitress and god awful. London was a knockout, so she made out ...

Crime

Don’t Be So Quick

Tasha Renee

1 min read

What!!! Why did you went through the same situation with me when I told you not to? You have any idea what I’m going through with this situation right now? What are you thinking about?! To just throw away your life like that please explain to me was it worth it? Or are you just plain dumb to think that I wouldn’t find out about this little adventure of yours.what’s so important to just risk your l...

Crime

Romance

Kindred Souls

brighaus

6 min read

**Falvio sat back in his stellar lounge and browsed through a rotating torus of faces that looked uncannily similar to his own. Each small bust floating by had a scene surrounding it. Tiny dioramas showing the habitat and level of technology that the owner of the bust inhabited. He skipped through several whose societies looked too far advanced. He preferred more primitive targets. They didn’t pay...

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Clean It Til It Stops

Samuel Moniker

3 min read

Anytime he stopped cleaning, he felt the it calling. And so he cleaned until it was all he knew.

Harvey’s days were filled with scrubbing floors and obsessive dusting. The floor glared with the light from the window while windows themselves were spotless. He wiped them daily at 4:50 PM. The rest of his day fit a certain schedule, starting with dishes first thing in the morning.

On one particular...

Horror

Crime

Classic Whodunit

Niall Fry

1 min read

Entry #: 12

Name: Detective Miles Carver

Time: 0342

Location: 25 Maybury Blvd, Hornville, North Carolina

Report: Just arrived at the hospital. EMTs have given me the report. Cause of victim's death: poison. Trace amounts were left behind at the scene. We're going to get the sample back to the lab and see what we can identify it as. Based on the effects on the body, nothing I've ever seen befor...

Mystery

Crime

Reckless

Aryna🌈✨

1 min read

“I’m too young to go to jail!” *sigh* “well you put it upon yourself,” my friend said. “They’ll search your room, find the money, and trace it back to your dead ex.” “And dead friends,” I added. “Honestly I wonder why you spared me,” my friend said in despair. “Cuz you’re broke,” I replied casually,” duh.” “Awww,” my friend, Bella said, “it’s not nice, to rub it in my face like that.” She was inte...

Drama

Crime

Easy As ABC

Leeron Heywood

4 min read

If I’d known it was Gory’s bag I never woulda opened it. That guy’s the meanest, scariest hoodlum this town’s ever seen. Also the best Rabble Runner ever. Since he took charge the other gangs have clear moved out.

Maybe I shouldn’t have opened that bag even thinking it was Tom’s. But Gory had been pressuring me to “prove myself”, like he might kick me out. I CAN'T lose the Rabblers. I’d be dog-m...

Crime

No Sweet Sachet

Aidan Gant

1 min read

Elsie had hoped that she would have been able to continue to admire him, a little longer at least. When she'd started working here six months ago, he'd seemed like a respectable man. Maybe a little less well put together than some of the other men in the office, no clean shave every morning, shoes unpolished, not the same manicured gleam that most of them had. But if anything, that leaned in his f...

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