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A New Start

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

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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

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THE TURKISH LUR

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

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The Path

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

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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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Awake

Jeanne Rose

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Of course, this seemed insignificant to those who had seen the sun every day for several years, or even since birth. The day. The light.

For them, it was just another day of good weather, a day at work, a day like any other.

But I hadn't seen it for so long. Just thinking about it gave me the shivers.

What did he look like? Had he changed since my accident? Had it got bigger, smaller? Had he bec...

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Caedryn College (chapter 1)

Ine🌷

3 min read

Hey! This is the first chapter of a story I’m working on. I’d love to hear what you think, so feel free to leave feedback

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I did it.

I fucking did it.

Nova stared at the letter on her desk, her heart pounding in her chest. Next to it lay the envelope, the seal carefully broken. In elegant silver script, it read:

Novanna Lysmere

Juwelierstraat 698

30 Starhill

She had sighed deeply when her f...

Fantasy

Mystery

A Dimantium Gem!

Coriolan

1 min read

Both parties are in a wooden, hole-in-the-wall gemstone shop in a busy town. The boy urges to take the arrangement into a private room. The room is full of treasure with three tiny windows near the ceiling.

David slides the bag across the wooden table, the thing making a rattling noise, the old appraiser stands across from the boy. The man peers inside. “Where in the great World did you come acro...

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CHAPTER TWO

CJBlaire

6 min read

Fires exploded across the land, leaving Darcie Whittle to flinch as she curled into the alley wall. The Shade warriors were out for blood, and Wynthril was crumbling despite their best effort not to. They were losing the war.

Though she never expected it to come to this––escaping the only land she called home for the last twenty-five years. Yet she was huddled in a darkened alley, arguing with th...

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Mystery

Order Of The Sigil: Small Talk

DjinniRB

1 min read

Whack! I punched one of my oldest friends in the face dead center. Jackson’s head snapped back. Red splattered. Springing back, I crouched into an attack pose.

“Glad to see you, Kennedy,” Jackson said. “How’s tricks?”

Flashing out my combat boot, I tried to sweep out Jackson’s feet from beneath her. Somersaulting backwards, Jackson evaded my attack. My old friend and fighting instructor flung ...

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The Pagoda Curse

WildPotato

1 min read

The dark, wooden floorboards were creaking under each of my steps as i made my way down the loud staircase. Through a window from the second floor, i caught a glimpse of the far off landscape laid before my eyes. As the wind sizzled through the obstacles, a thick layer of trees attempted to hide a chain of what i could’ve sworn were mountains reaching for the stars above. I continued my journey t...

Mystery

The Mask Of The Past

~Passionate Writer~

4 min read

**_PROLOGUE-:

_**

I rummage through the old boxes in the old car with my, _was secretary, _now wife.

I groan as I straighten up from squatting over a box, my legs never recovered from my past.

I look around, a sticky note written on one of the boxes that I dug up from the dustiest corner of the big trunk, catching my eyes.

I reach for it, pulling it in front of me.

_Grunt_.

I peel off the s...

Thriller

Mystery

When I Look In The Mirror

Kitkat

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When I look in the mirror I don’t see myself. I see Sofia. But I can’t see her we look nothing alike. I have short brown hair. She _had_ long brown hair. I have blue eyes. She _had _green eyes. I have freckles. She _didn’t _have freckles. She was on death row. I wasn’t…. She killed our mother. I didn’t. She tortured our mother. I didn’t. She murdered her teacher. I didn’t. She was a monster. I’m n...

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The Lake

Kitkat

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_Dear Diary,_

_I’m scared. My mom is making us go to Lake Francis but I’ve read news reports. 8 people have gone missing after they went to Lake Francis. Mom wants the whole family to go so I can’t back out. _

_April 15, 2009_

_Sammy_

_Dear Diary, _

_We just arrived at Lake Francis. It doesn’t look to bad there are other people swimming. But there this lady and she is just sitting on a tree stu...

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Assassin

Kitkat

4 min read

I was stuck. My foot was trapped under a tree root. The temple gaurds were after me. Minutes away from killing me. I yanked my foot as hard as I could but it wouldn’t budge. I could hear them shouting. I started to stomp on the root with my other foot. And finally my foot was free. I ran (well limped) fast.

I took a sharp left turn and lost them. I ran through the forest, eventually I found my sm...

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