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inkling
"I don't know what counts as my first kiss, or even my first love," Nadya told me between sips of her drink. "Maybe that sounds sad, but I think it's rather common."

"Certainly. It's human nature to reduce our pasts into a more streamlined narrative."

"It does(more)
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moving p...
breakingtree
Xyto was 45 now, colouring in the truck only just outside the lines. Everything was the right colour except the yellow face of the man inside it. He had faint memories of designing a new truck engine when he was 7 -which is, the psychologists believe, why trucks are(more)
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sapphire
thrust into the unknown,
awaiting release.
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six word...
joem18b
he behaved like a
virgin but it was because
he was slow to learn
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haiku
playgroundlove
In the lane as light flickers blindly the savior emerges, a ghastly thing, a yellow call in that pitch black night. Surreptitious, enigmatic, there is no answer but the man at the door. He's yelling a dream, he's coaxing a condor.
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sex | vulgar | death
sapphire
We helped
each other
save ourselves.
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six word...
Chairisse
What a burden, the cross! What a fate, to be drowned by the tears and woes of the masses! What a sentence, a restriction, priest's collar chafing like chains on the soul. How quaint, how queer, to see man toil solely for the sake of another!
O, ye pur(more)
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religion | reincarn... | my deism...
PixieDevil
Disillusioned, disenchanted,
please give me something before
nothing becomes my everything
and everything turns to nothing.

Can't heal the world, (more)
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poetry | savior
joem18b
savior, please don't come.
too much bad has to happen
before you get here.
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haiku
DavidRheinhart
Sally rubbed her hand on Peter’s back as he hung his head over the edge of the toilet. He retched, and Sally could feel the convulsions shake him from his shoulders to his feet. He was pale, cool sweat pooled on his neck and drenched his shirt in (more)
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saviour | suicide | detox
madz
Its amazing how we got this far,
feels like we spent our whole lives chasing,
the dream, the wish, the goal.
I never thought we would actually make it,
now that we have, I have my doubts,
I have my reservations. (more)
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life
GKhan
“Dammit man, close his eyes! He is staring right through me!”  Jonathan clenched his pocket watch through his three-piece suit. The doctor pulled the eyelids down, but the corpse’s face remained menacing.
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death | theater | murder
Panda29
His breathing had become laboured.  As I sat beside him, I could see him deteriorate.  He was failing, and fast.  For so long now I had been bracing myself, preparing, psyching myself up and now that it was upon us, I all of a sudden felt so rushed.  It was as if all(more)
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delanger
Jimmy tried not to let the nerves show.  The crowd was enthusiastic but had not wandered into total drunkenness yet.  This was the opportunity he was waiting for, had waited for all night.  
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HERSKO
Everyone was in position. The Corilino brothers had the stage manager tied up in his office. Simon had the Girl and James was all set up by the stage lights. Three months of planning and the night was finally here. This was it. Tonight we ether live or we(more)
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life | death | closing ...