Stories tagged “fire escape”
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Flash
Flash. Red. Mason’s heart skipped a beat. Flash. Blue. He looked out the window and couldn’t believe his eyes. They had found him. He had been careful to cover his tracks, but clearly he had fouled up somewhere. He quickly filled a backpack...
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--Ike Rain
Once upon a time, before microwaves, but after cars, there lived a boy. The boy loved nothing more than sitting on the fire escape to his New York apartment. His best friend was a girl whom he never saw, unless she was on her fire escape across the str...
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Loose Change: 5&D
His heavy eyes opened to golden rays of light; the smoldering sunrise radiated though the layers of grated platforms above. A tilting of the head and light pierced his pupils; a tilt the other way and he saw its shadow in its shade. The first section o...