Tag: 100 word stories
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August 02, 2008 07:15 PM EDT --
I didn't start this battle.
I thought you were my partner, the one who would never betray me. You had my trust, and you tossed it aside.
I will survive. Oh, . . .
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August 25, 2008 07:23 PM EDT --
This week's prompt:
Charlie Chaplin once said, ""To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it!" For this week, keep that quote in mind and give this . . .
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May 20, 2008 03:24 PM EDT --
It was a clear bright sunny day on September-11th, 2001.It started as any ordinary day, but led to a change that would affect Molly's whole life forever.
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June 09, 2008 08:59 PM EDT --
This week's prompt is the photo of the old shoe stuck in the mud and we are to tell the shoe's story from the shoe's perspective.
My partner and I lived happily . . .
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October 08, 2008 10:09 PM EDT --
He distrusted foreign cabbies, thieves, all of them. One last look, wallet safe in his pocket, he turned to face the red brick mansion.
Well kept, it exuded an air of . . .
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October 18, 2008 08:19 PM EDT --
"Faster!" the old woman railed at the donkey.
A man approached . "I'll give you a fair price for him."
She shook her head. . . .
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July 08, 2009 01:02 PM EDT --
This week's prompt is Suspense , and any of the following phrases:
A lonely stretch of highway, An abandoned warehouse,A dark and stormy night, A hilltop mansion
Racing the clock . . .
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February 25, 2008 09:06 PM EST --
"The coffee was strong and bitter. I liked it that way. The paper cup was a hand warmer in the steamy alley. Darkness had set in. Yeah, I was there. In the alley."
"Why? What were you . . .
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February 26, 2008 07:54 AM EST --
Damn it's been busy today. I HATE closing.
I whisked through the diner like a hurricane, collecting catsup bottles and refilling them.
"Let's GO Lonni, I wanna get home TONIGHT, . . .
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March 01, 2008 11:33 AM EST --
Note: A father's chat with his college bound son ...
There was music, the kind that never went away: the Stones and the Doors, Janis Joplin, very early Pink Floyd. . . .
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March 12, 2008 08:43 PM EDT --
Journal Entry 109...
Destiny. Been hearing a lot about it lately. Don't know if I believe anymore. Still undecided. I think mine's was stolen!
Journal Entry 237...
August 28, . . .
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April 02, 2008 06:05 AM EDT --
Ingrid Jonker, a shining star among South African poetesses, she was known as the Queen of metaphor, imagery and heartfelt emotions.
Denied by a father, resented by her step-mother, Ingrid went to stay . . .
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April 24, 2008 12:40 AM EDT --
Cole tossed a handful of dirt. It landed in Myra's hair, and she slapped his hand. His squeals made her head throb. "Shut up!" Myra fell back on the grass. She flung an arm over her face. . . .
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May 17, 2008 09:45 AM EDT --
"What have you accomplished this year? " The interviewer asked with eyebrows raised.
My mind attempted to formulate the perfect answer, but all I could think of was the four . . .
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June 30, 2008 10:11 AM EDT --
The nights are so long and lonely in this old house, especially when the wind howls eerily, the . . .
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July 24, 2008 12:27 AM EDT --
Look at him. Patting himself on the back for a job well done. A satiated smile. More like a million dollar smile. I have patience. What's the saying? Revenge's . . .
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July 02, 2009 09:31 AM EDT --
This week's prompt is "Adventure", and any of the following words: taxi, parachute, kayak, mountain, clown.
Removing the harness from his parachute, he realized his landing was off target by about . . .
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September 09, 2009 03:20 PM EDT --
Oregon summer: sun like warmed honey dripping, sweet bees humming, and students lying in drying grass with straw-blond hair like feathers strewn around.
“Your turn Em!”
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November 01, 2008 09:53 PM EDT --
She accepted her destiny. There was no escape now. She turned off the ignition. The clouds of smoke, the distant rumbling, no longer dreaded. It would reach her shortly. . . .
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March 29, 2008 09:40 PM EDT --
The mantel clock did its dirty work: each beat struck Shirley's worried heart.
Where was Doctor Gill?
Tick tock.
Oh, Jason, be okay! Shirley prayed.
Tick tock.
Dread. Would . . .
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