Stories tagged “confidence”
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Happy
“Jake Landward, are you saying I’m beautiful?” He smiled, “Yes and I hope you’ll believe it.” “Well, I will for tonight, I can’t make promises for the future. This girl’s confidence sways in differe...
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Desire
As I walk, it’s still there and when I ignore it, it just gets bigger. It won’t go away on its own. I have to muster up the courage and power to get rid of it. It watches me when I’m with others and it tortures me when I’m alone...
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Fact and Fiction
-FACT*-* It was only eight thirty when they took me. This is the part I don’t remember. -ANOTHER FACT*-* I was only gone two hours, but yet I was still missed by my mother. I told, too. I told Vivi first, made her promise not to tell. But she st...
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Pride's Back
Confidence’s hand is warm, and Fear’s hand is ice cold, but both send chills down my spine. “You’re totally overlooking it, James. Come on. Worry is just trying to… worry you,” Confidence tries to convince me. “...
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Confidence
She enters the smoky club dressed to kill and she knows it. A half smile on her lips, she pauses at a mirror, slips a small tube out of her tiny purse and expertly applies it; the lipstick disappears as fast as it materialized. A quick flick of her sho...
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Dear Mr./Mrs. Ficly
Yes, I am talking to you. First of all, let me thank you for giving me your complete attention and pausing iTunes. Allow me to reiterate; thank you for giving me your complete attention and pausing iTunes. Good, now. Who is Mr./Mrs. Ficly? Well my frie...
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Fifty Bucks Worth of Confidence
The gun was small, denser than it looked, and felt as if it carried the weight of the world inside it. “How much?” Jenny asked despite herself. She wasn’t even into guns . “For you? Gimme fifty and we’ll call it square....
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1024 Characters
I felt so incredibly confined. Literature needed something new. Something huge. They told me it couldn’t be done. “It will drive you insane!” They said. Yelling and begging and trying so damn hard to convince me. Friends and family co...