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Callum Burdett

A New Start

1 min read

I watch as the coffin lowers into the ground. It’s raining and crowded. Someone i

Penfold

Stop Watch

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When he’d say to me, ‘I’m not ready to die yet’, I’d just smile. Nervously - what can

BRISKET BOY

THE TURKISH LUR

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Archeologists have made a breaking discovery in Turkey’s ancient musical history: the

Lillie

The Path

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Slowly, carefully, Hector walks along the narrow path, leading his horse Carrot behin

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Her

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No grave can hold my body down; I'll crawl home to her. Her dark beauty renders the

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the cat, the goat, and the girl

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A cat, a goat, and a girl walk down the hill, their footfalls synced, their breath al

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Nat

1 min read

We have been walking for a what feels like a hour, that’s what we calculate. But honestly we don’t know it yet. The clocks are broken, the seconds last quicker than normal ones in some of them and there is more hours than I can count on the clock that is placed at the end of the hallway. I have seen it already 7 times and the sound of our steps is making me sick, I don’t have any idea where the ex...

Mystery

Thriller

She Isn’t Who She Says She Is

Gogo Almalki

2 min read

My mom. She had me when she was really little just a teenager she didn’t have or she didn’t have her full fun. Her dad wasn’t really a dad he would come back home start shouting and drinks all day and absorbs to violence to her and her mom she went to this bar and she saw a woman the woman was sad for her and she teach her how to shoot and gave her leather jacket she gave her to try a drink and le...

Drama

Mystery

The Plane Wreck

Justawriter

1 min read

Water smacked my face as I tried to look for soldering to grab on. That was a beautiful night sky, the stars sprinkled the ocean. I saw a white piece of the plane that had once been. I swam towards, thrusting my up boat upon it. I rested my head down and took a minute to catch my breath. I then lifted my head and looked around me, there was no body else. No survivors but me. I was a plane to visit...

Mystery

Thriller

Gone

EMM

1 min read

I slowly draw my headphones out from under the covers of my unmade bed - I couldn’t be bothered this morning. I take out my phone, and scroll through the endless apps in which I have spent hours on just to kill time. Eventually, I reach a playlist and hesitantly press it. Ongoing roadworks outside my window make it impossible to get things done (at least that’s what I’m telling myself), so I plan ...

Mystery

Drama

They Took All Of Me

Kylee Duren

1 min read

It gets to a point where you have to stop fighting the world and start fighting your own mind. And that’s where I’ve been living, in cracks between voices that aren’t real and memories that are, and both hurt, they kill.

People talk, they tell me I’m so strong, and I’ve survived so much, but they don’t see what survival looks like when your brain keeps replaying trauma like it’s stuck in a broken...

Mystery

Home

Justawriter

1 min read

The little girl was curled up in a ball, the last thing she remembered was hearing the screams of the others around her before things went dark. The little girl sniffed, tears sliding down her small cheeks. She just wanted to be home, to see her papa abs mama ones more time. The girl could hear sissy for steps coming towards her. She lifted up her head and saw a women crouched in front of her. She...

Mystery

The Dark

People Will Never Know My Real Name

1 min read

We all look the same in the dark

Our primal instincts to kill

To hide

To run

Take over

Our thoughts

To love

To sing

To write

Flee under the cover of dark satin

If only—

The darkness we hold so desperately onto

Wasn’t already in us

Our veins

Our blood

Our fears

We all look the same in the dark

If only

when the lights flickered on

And we blinked temporally blinded

Only to be blinded again

By othe...

Poetry

Mystery

The Ruby

Justawriter

2 min read

“Eric, we need to go back.” Lisa said nervously. It was almost night fall and the woods were seemingly pitched black, only visible through the flashlight Lisa held in her shaky hand.

There was no comment. “Eric!”, Lisa turned around, expecting to see her redhead step-brother. But all she saw was a endless dark forest. Lisa gulped, she could feel the sweat dripping down her face.

Lisa mov...

Mystery

Alone

Jade Fernberg

1 min read

There is an open field where she can be alone, but her mind is constantly running. Some days she just wishes she could be without any noise. She looks up at the sky and wonders what is up there. For now she will try to just be here in field by herself....

Mystery

The Centuries Past

The Dweller of the Outer Horizon

2 min read

It had been three gruelling hell-haunted days on that abysmal planet. Frostbite had found its way into the appendages of the crew, each face grew thin and yearned for warmth, even subtle things like the sane and steady look in the eyes of the “Leader” had changed.

Complexities beyond the resources of a barren tundra world had shown themselves in the fixtures of the ship. Slowly the twenty thousan...

Science fiction

Mystery