scratch'n'scrawl
Joined June 2009 and calls Thinking Out Loud at LiveJournal home.
42 stories, 79 challenges, 161 comments, and 22 friends
An Aussie infatuated, no, obsessed with spreading his artistic wings and creating whenever possible, is enjoying taking on the challenge of trying to hold a pen and write interesting stories…with wings.
Stories
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a hot date
He’d known her for what seemed like forever. Hours talking through the magic of keyboards and monitors, but she’d never let him see her, never meeting. As close as he reckoned, she only lived a few suburbs away. She was very careful online ...
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Not all doom and gloom.
Sitting at his keyboard, the once-regularly-mirthful-now-more-often-pessimistic young man contemplates which tack this challenge will take. He starts typing: “Firstly I’m thankful for my immediate family this year, my brothers and my parent...
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Town Crier's decree...
Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye… Lords, ladies, gentlefolk, and scallywags: You are all granted the greatest honour of hearing the latest law passed by His Highness, your king. As of this exact day, any person found writing creatively, be they stories,...
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Prep Red, 1975
I don’t remember my first day of school. I know lots of kids cry at the prospect of being away from their mother for the first time, or maybe the thought that it could be a permanent separation perhaps? I’m sure I had none of this, yet stil...
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Prosthetic Curse.
My new mechanical prosthetic hand was awesome, unlike anything I had ever imagined could exist since my accident. My girlfriend was loving it too, as we’d hired a boat for a few days to get out on the ocean, alone, in touch with nature, and each ...
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Now I can't get back to sleep...
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I deserve love too!!!
As Dorothea looks at me, very non-committally, just like the previous three times that day, I cannot help but wonder if it will ever change. There’s obviously something there, otherwise she wouldn’t repeatedly focus on me, even though each ...
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one sick puppy...
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The Big Chill in 10 words
Guy dies. Old friends remember. Sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll.
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Aaaaarrrggghhhh!
I drove my car Down to the bar, It was a restored 1965 Jaguar. With me my sitar, And also my guitar On the back seat – I felt like a superstar. It wasn’t that far, Drove on past the spa, And parked it in behind Old Jack’s Bar. Then I ...
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I didn't mean THIS bridge!
Maneuvering around the pegs while defending my life was going to be rather challenging. Not to mention avoiding the obstacles of the strings also… The rules when challenged to a death duel by a Grand Gargoyle were well-known and simple: 1. The on...
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Getting into Samantha's pants was never going to be easy.
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A sense of wonder.
I feel the beating of my heart. More like racing, really. I feel the clamping around my ribs and back. Not uncomfortable at all, actually very snug and supportive. A large gum tree ramshackles its way past my line of vision. Next I see an esteemed old ...
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True Love?
I’ve never felt like this before. Ever. My love for you is totally overwhelming, swallowing me like that biblical whale Jonah once knew. I think of you and I smile. I see you and I smile. We hold each other and I smile. When I leave you it’...
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Not at 7Eleven...
There were two boys named Elvis in my class. Being grade 4 at Holy Mary’s, most kids knew nothing about the Elvis, but my mother still worshipped him: pictures, songs, and at least once a week she would throw one of her Complete Elvis box set mov...
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A Dream Come True?
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When I put the signs up around the university, I couldn’t have expected the response I got. My first band was the large-lettered heading on the notice, and I was asking for anyone who was interested in playing all sorts of different music, from s...
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It can't be a sin if it tastes so good...
He could feel eyes on him as he made his way back to the table. Sitting down, he felt slightly more uneasy as the look on his wife’s face may have been made slightly more beautiful if she could’ve had daggers coming out of her eye sockets. ...
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a place like no other
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Expected unexpectedness.
“A marriage is bloody private and so is a confession.” His voice was both defensive and threatening at the same time, almost like the growl emanating from a predator when they find themselves cornered by a predator of their own. It made Bil...
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What is in Lost Springs, Wyoming?
Imposing buildings, rising up high, almost blocking out any indication of a sky… It is my first visit to a city, and I’m thirty, not a young man by a long shot. It is so busy, with humans, animals, transport, signs,and lights as far as my p...
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"Try changing the tone of the sentence..."
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Any chance of a coffee?
My hand trembled as I picked the phone up. I asked the operator to connect me to a Michigan number, all the while wondering if I’d be able to talk, or if she’d even remember my voice. She did answer, and she sounded almost the same. I was i...
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I'm not scared of the dark or anything.
8:04 pm. It was cold, and wet. It had been raining all day. Typical for an English summer really. I normally don’t walk the streets alone at this time, especially with the recently reported murder spree, but I was on my way to my favourite bar to...
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It's really a curse being omniscient...
“Franklin, what are you talking about?” “You heard what I said: It really is a curse being omniscient, knowing everything has a great responsibility attached to it.” “You don’t know everything. I’ll bet I can a...
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SchwarzeNEGGER, dufus!
“Hello, my name is Arnie.” I’ve always thought this is the best way to introduce myself to someone I didn’t know, especially if they were someone I may want to know. So today, after the first seminar of the International Youth L...
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stakeout
No stakeout had ever been like this, he thought to himself as he entered his ninth hour straight. Five men working concurrently, from half a mile away, each equipped with ultra-powerful telescopes and sonar-aided long-distance microphones. Every single...
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The things we do...
Early. I finally get the gumption up to ask Sally out, and to my surprise she said yes, but on her terms. I agreed, and smiling, asked what her terms were. That was yesterday. She said the date would be today. She would pick what we’d do and when we...
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The cleanest bathroom
The bathroom of the room I’d rented was so clean, as clean as anything I’d ever seen, it was almost antiseptic. I’m not a clean freak or anything, but I do appreciate it when I notice something so out-of-the-ordinary in a good way. No kidding, as...
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Editing blues...
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