This story is one of the January Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. The flames continued, falling like bombs from the sky. The explosions were deafening. Abbi sprinted up the stairs, the smell of her burnt hair making her nauseous. The books. She had to get the books. They held her […]
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This story is one of the January Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. Today was the day. She knew it had to be done. Sometimes our demons can only be quashed by fire. She had made her way back to the squalid grey building with the small, square windows and peeling […]
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This story is one of the January Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. Pros outweighed the cons. She folded her ebony sweater and placed it on a pile of books. She perceived Madison climbing up and humming the new Ed Sheeran tunes; but that was just wishful thinking. She looked around […]
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This story is one of the January Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. A faint orange light filled the tiny room, elongating the shadows. She let the match burn before blowing it out with one quick puff, inhaling the addictive smell. She loved that smell. She loved the sound that matches […]
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“Climb” is a featured 100-word story from the May Writing Challenge. I’ve come here. For this. And now I’m too scared. I don’t know why– I mean, she’s beautiful; all wiry and twisted and monumental… but she’s tall. Really tall. My legs turn to jellied lead as I ascend the first step of six […]
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Dear stranger, You don´t know me, why would you? I´m just the girl who is always reading on the bus and has a journal so full of words that sometimes it seems it´s going to blow up. Of course you don´t know me, but you know what? I don´t care. Many people dream about becoming […]
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“Epic Friendships” is one of the March Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. You recommend the books you like. The ones you love, you keep to yourself. Your favorite books are filled with stories about friendship. You like the idea of everlasting, all-conquering bonds of love. You find that […]
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“A Million Fragments of Feathers” is one of the March Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. The dandelions come out today. They are scattered across the fields, each lonely fleck of sun-given yellow standing in their own random place, and yet together they seem to form some kind of […]
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“Shadow” is one of the March Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. I’ll tell you about the first time I saw the shadow. I was by the sea. I could see the horizon stretched out before me, and I felt the enormity of it surge through me. The unbreakable […]
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