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We’d been in the flat a year when it happened.

The night had been cold, and extremely wet, not very pleasant. I was sitting in my chair, over by the window.

My wife was out working, she usually was. It was then that I heard it, an enormous crash, a screech and a thud, followed by silence. Someone’s life, played out...

317 words by E Stevenson

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Published 8 years ago

"We have to stop her from talking. If she tells anyone, we're done for. Our careers will be over. This all ends." Maxine slammed the car door behind her as she got out, checking for surveillance.

"Is that a threat?" Freddie laughed, completely carefree. It was always like this. Maxine had to wonder how he had become an...

309 words by J Cambrook

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I fashion a cocoon of steel to shield
my weary, fragile bones.
I operate with silent certainty
that perpetrates my soul.
I tread with careful purpose, and though always still
I never sleep.
I grow steadily and surely and soon
no one even knows me.

They need not know of my transformation
where I’ve sprouted...

153 words by C Williams

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I hate going to sleep by myself.

It feels wrong. The space next to me is just that – space – black emptiness that should be filled with breathing. Life. The emptiness creeps into me, I feel raw, hollow. No rhythmic breathing to match my own or shape to fit to mine. There’s safety in your arms, and love. The night...

321 words by A Knight

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Published 8 years ago

Dear Earth,

This is Bill. You remember me? Probably not. But you will. I'm Bill from next door. Bill from down the street, Bill from above the shop. That Bill. But hey, why should you care, right? Who's Bill? Nobody. Bill Nobody you might as well call me.

Well I'm tired of being Bill NOBODY. From now on, what little...

732 words by J Xilon

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Published 8 years ago

We were gods. For a time.

Now we are like lambs for the slaughter.

One of our test subjects has gone missing. We counted and recounted but one of them has escaped. We know their behaviour in more detail than we know our own, which is a blessing and a curse. If we reflected too much on our actions we – anyone...

385 words by J Cambrook

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Published 8 years ago

Recognition:

In the curls of fingers and longing deep, your sleep-soft eyes convey to me affection the way only you know how in our companionable silence. Your words echo in the room quietly as you read, our hands linked, my chin on the crook of your neck.

They say you can’t remember, can’t possibly remember...

160 words by K C.

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Published 8 years ago

Composure

It wasn’t something to be taken on lightly and she wouldn’t be doing it if she could see an alternative that would make life easier for both of them.

For days she had tried to think of one. There was no one to ask or to advise her. This had to be her own decision. And it was hard. Hard to have make it...

125 words by R Smith-Nazilli

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Published 8 years ago

John
I never stopped thinking about you. Not once. Not even when my darling, loyal wife Susanna found out. I had to break things off for the children, of course, but I kept our letters as a small act of devoted rebellion. There was more passion interwoven in our words than I had experienced in a twenty year marriage to...

275 words by J Cambrook

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Published 8 years ago

This place was a new start...

This was a place of community.

This was a place of modernity.

This was a place of new ideals.

This was a place of respected traditions.

This was a place of health.

This was a place of happiness.

This was a place of friendship.

This was a place of optimism.

This was a...

130 words by R Tarran

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Published 8 years ago

David slowly lifted his arm out of bed and felt around on the bedside table for the buzzing alarm clock. Was it morning already? It only felt like five minutes ago when he was getting into bed. He eventually found the alarm clock and attempted to press the "off"button but knocked it onto the floor which made a loud...

461 words by A Proctor

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Published 8 years ago

Tiffany squealed as Roy fastened the diamond necklace around her slender neck. She turned and threw her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek.

“Not so hard,” he muttered and he slumped down on the garden chair. “I’m not as young as you, babe.”

This statement couldn’t be any truer, and Roy couldn't stop himself...

665 words by J Thomas

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Published 8 years ago

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