Stories tagged “taxi”
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Riding home in the City of Dreams
It wasn’t a long taxi ride back to her house. I’d managed to call in a favour and three cabs had shown up to help the last stragglers home. We sat quietly together for a while, hand-in-hand, the peace punctuated only by the pounding of my h...
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Forever Forget
She stared out of the taxi window at the rain. She watched the rain run down the window leaving little trails then disappearing forever. She stared at her reflection in the window and watched the tears run down her face. The tears would never stop, nev...
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Taxi ride
Her cellphone illuminated the darkness. The taxi was silent except for the sound of the meter running and the rain pattering against it. She was texting from what I could see. She seem to be deep in her cellphone, considering the fact she didn’t ...
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Marauded! (Retro Ficlet Challenge)
I had just hacked the Pentagon mainframe for the third time when I heard the sirens. Maybe they weren’t for me, but Jeanette Leroq, teen-uberhackeress-at-large, hadn’t stayed at large by being careless. I could always come back later if it was a fa...
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Sea Change
My girlfriend’s brother beat me within an inch of my life. He said that I’m not good enough for her and am in our relationship for the money. He broke my arm in three places and fractured a rib. On my way to the bus stop, after I left the e...