Tag: writing
group name: suddenfiction
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November 28, 2006 06:53 AM EST --
Yesterday she had a dream about him. He was seen injured and lain unconscious on the stone bench of a park that was seemed familiar to her. He was her classmate in high school. He was always kind . . . more
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December 13, 2006 03:56 AM EST --
The Anesthetist signaled okay. The patient was shifted to the operating table from the amphitheatre. The Junior Doctors waited for the crash-landing of Prof. (Dr.) Narendran, their Department . . . more
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December 05, 2006 06:23 AM EST --
IT was raining heavily out side. An unexpected thunderbolt banged. Power went out. Mad winds pounded the doors and windows.
Normally he liked the untamed forces . . . more
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November 29, 2006 01:56 AM EST --
He sat in the Metro train to the airport with a swollen heart. His mind hesitated to give up hope and his eyes scanned each metro station for her.
She was his childhood friend. He met her again . . . more
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August 28, 2008 02:37 AM EDT --
“My first name is Daniel. I am unable to remember my last name. I am 12 years old. When I was 2 – so I was told – my mother sold me and my twin sister to the Master. I have a very ugly upper lip and he . . . more
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August 26, 2008 04:30 AM EDT --
“Can you handle it?” he used to ask me.
I used to look him straight into the eyes and answer with a confidence based on nothing but my own pride “Of course I can!”
Of course I had no idea whether I . . . more
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March 05, 2007 11:42 AM EST --
The Allergic Reaction
She’s beautiful, this girl, Donna is her name, and I keep eye contact despite the sharp headache it causes, twisting behind my right eyeball. I refuse to look . . . more
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December 20, 2006 11:39 PM EST --
They’re fighting again. Tonight is a little worse than most. He’s already hit her more than a couple of times. They don’t notice me. Why would they, they’re so focused on their . . . more
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August 06, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
If Adam looks the guy in the face and shrugs, “I don’t know his name, dude,” then no one knows him.
Every other day, he walks into the camping store, itching his grimy scalp with long . . . more
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February 29, 2008 08:20 PM EST --
A pretty much true story.
"What the hell." Squirelly said to himself, "There's nothing else to do." So he called up Jim and got out the John boat. The sun was hot, the beer . . . more
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August 03, 2008 02:20 AM EDT --
Amanda feels tension the minute she enters the sales meeting Monday morning. As she takes her seat in the conference room, she glues her eyes to the ticking wall clock, avoiding Jolie's pointed . . . more
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June 13, 2008 01:53 AM EDT --
Goldies O'keefe's Tripping Tea House
John Lennon
Bob Dylan
. . . more
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December 14, 2006 06:18 PM EST --
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There is the neighborhood street, and at the end of each driveway is a mailbox, an overflowing trash bin, and a dead Christmas tree slouching against the trash bin. All the Christmas . . . more
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December 23, 2006 10:44 PM EST --
Looking for reviews of this one. Comments directly to it are fine. If anyone is in Constructive Criticism group, I have just completed a review of <a href="http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976895768">The . . . more
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October 27, 2007 06:41 PM EDT --
Written non-stop from 5:05 p.m. to 5:25 p.m. (AKA Shotgun Fiction) No editing allowed.
My mother carries a box of white zinfandel to the bathtub after the five-o-clock news and soaks in steaming hot . . . more
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December 27, 2006 04:35 PM EST --
In five minutes, three single girlfriends on New Year's Eve, drinks cool in hand, will each share a new year's resolution. They stand inside their favorite club, bodies forming a triangle. . . . more
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August 10, 2008 06:30 PM EDT --
Four o’clock in the afternoon, between First Street and Second Street on East Mifflin, a dark green Suburu Forester slowly crawls from driveway to driveway. The driver’s side door remains open . . . more
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August 22, 2008 02:16 AM EDT --
Just a note to let everyone interested know that there's a fresh new group out there for writing challenges.
This one challenges you to write short stories based on songs.
Give it a look , . . . more
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August 10, 2008 10:36 PM EDT --
Despite the church address typo, cancelled catering, and tacky Elvis impersonator acting as D.J., Mat and Aubrey married each other yesterday with bursting hearts and twinkling eyes. Love ruled. . . . more
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June 01, 2008 01:49 PM EDT --
In the end, the wings took her inside herself. She flew right through her own nostrils.
The flight, she still recalls, was endless. She didn't know that her inside was deeper and vaster than the . . . more
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