Stories tagged “true story”
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Your Hand In Mine
Your hand in mine, even after all these years, it’s never meant anything less than butterflies for me. I didn’t know where we’re headed, I didn’t care. I looked over at you, you we’re gazing out on the river, excitedly poi...
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The Evening Watch
A nearly cloudless night. Crisp air flowed freely across my body. The beautiful light of the celestial bodies shown blissfully upon my pale complexion. All seemed perfect with the world as I continued on with my evening stroll…although a tinge of...
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Time
It wasn’t my time. That’s what I told myself. The doctors told me different. How many 19 year-olds have a brain tumor that will kill them in a month? It can’t be. It’s not my time. How can they tell me my expiration date? How lo...
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Like Turning Off the Sun [Fact-ly '09 challenge copy]
“I have to go now,” he said. I checked the Spider-man watch he gave me for Christmas, 11:51PM it read. “Awh… I hate when we have to hang up,” I lamented. “Me, too,” he stated. “Why?” I questioned. &...
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The Promise
“We will always be best friends,” he promised. “You’re like a sister to me, even if you were a crazy alien squid I would be thrilled to be you’re friend.” That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. Which is...
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Down and Out
I picked up the lawn chair I had stored in the barn to keep it from being dried and cracked by the harsh summer sun. I set it down in the usual place, between the side door of the house and the big elm tree. And I waited. My prey emerged from the roof ...
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Good At Math And Stuff
“Okay, Indians are the worst because they’re all stupid and shit. Then blacks ’cuz they never really do anything, and then Mexicans.” The girl was cute as a button, but I couldn’t believe the shit she was saying. She was a...
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Goodbye my friend
My friend died the other day. I was gutted. We had only known each other a few months but we were very close. We saw each other almost every day. I moved to a new town about 3 months ago, I found it difficult to adjust to a new place and meet new peopl...
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The Question
“Do you know what it is Andy?” Gemma asked He stared at her across the dinner table, his mind went blank. He slowly looked around the table, everyone was looking at him. They didn’t know the answer, they were sure he did. He could fee...
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The Power of Black 29
“Can you buy me a beer please mate? I lost all my cash playing blackjack.” asked Kev “Blackjack? I’ve warned you about that before!” replied Andy “I know, I know, can you lend me a fiver please?” asked Kev with...
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Pounds and Ounces
There wasn’t a big red FAIL across the screen but the two pilots knew that’s what had happened. Everything had gone wrong, one thing after another. It should have been a routine flight, then the electronic gauges went, then it was one engin...
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I Will Go, If You Lead Me
Driving home from school, I saw the familiar form and ponderous gait of Mr. Gennerson. Dressed in his usual white t-shirt, tucked into tan pants, held up by sturdy suspenders. Today he looked like he was struggling under the twin oppressors of age and ...
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The Prize of Success
I always saw myself as a freedom fighter in the office. I waged a rebellious, guerrilla campaign against the stupid, the tyrannical, and the uncooperative. For some reason I always found battles to fight and Dilbert was my hero. Last week I had fought ...
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Emotional Rocket Fuel
When most people talk about love, they speak of a song that filled their heart, a look that changed their life, or a person who appeared at just the right time. It sounds like a religious man yammering on about faith and god. It’s all wonder and ...
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Loss in the Din
As half the platoon made a wary descent towards fields of dangerously high corn below an explosion echoed from behind the hill. Small arms fire cracked through the air and over the radio, “We’re good…Johnson, you okay? Hey…shit&...
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Killer Instincts.
The cat meowed repeatedly, over and over again. It was cute, but only at first. Its eyes were dilated, its expression frantic. “What do you want?!” I asked, with the full knowledge that it couldn’t understand a word I said. “Mee...
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Do Not Disturb!
In my usual starbucks, I was sitting and writing when Mother Nature knocked. Well she actually started with a light tap- a slight tummy gurgle and a vague feeling of discomfort. I have fairly good body control so I ignored her. I had to get my story do...
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Mundawn
The alarm beeped shrilly in my ear. I opened one bleary eye and waited for the room to come into focus. As I began to shift on the bed, my cat woke up. She gave me a very irritated look before stretching her jaws in an impossibly wide yawn and curling ...
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I’m standing under an awning, but the sun radiates from the concrete with searing intensity. I casually flip my marker between the inky fingers of my right hand. Habit, I suppose. Familiarizing myself with— I drop it. I retrieve it. Straig...