Never Taste Freedom

Hector Elizondo hadn't been looking for it, but he'd found a solution to quitting smoking. First day I met him, he had a cigarette stuck between his lips. His goofy, smug smile held his cig at an upward angle so I thought he might stick the damn thing...

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The Temporal Casualty

I stand before the playpen staring down at the wolf pup. He stares back his golden eyes curious. he's not afraid; why would he be? He doesn't know why I'm here, he doesn't recognize the weapon I have pointed at him. He's innocent, but he won't always...

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Tintinnabulation

There it was again: The sound cutting through the trees, piercing past the wind and calling to mind the silence of every creature in the forest. Craig Secker could hear the tinny tones of a mobile phone from roughly a decade past every time he hit...

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I had this dream

A ring of the doorbell, and like clockwork, five seconds is all it takes. "Oh, Louise! You're back in town for the summer already? University treating ya well?" "Just fine, Mr. Brooks. Everything's going wonderfully so far." Nosy as it may...

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Just What You Do

This is a relatively simple scene i wrote based on one of the prompts regularly posed over on writer's crossing. if prompts like this interest you, maybe you should check out writer's crossing yourself!

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Coming Out of the Tent

#7 of writer's crossing during the discussion of a short story in the book reading club of writers' crossing, i suggested that "coming out of the tent" should be a euphemism for coming out as a werewolf, because some of those stories involved or mentioned

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The Madness of Mrs. Frank

#1 of writers crossing prompts now that i no longer run the prompts on my server, writers crossing, i can submit to them!

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2796761 ironsnake345_springtime_sting

writers crossing writing prompt submission for the week of 7/25/19 by @ironsnake345writing prompt this week:-your entire life, you've been told you're deathly allergic to bees.

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Consequences

#1 of writers crossing writing prompt winners the winner of writers crossing writing prompt for the week of 7/4/19 the prompt was: you have been granted one wish. what is it, and how does it impact your life? congrats to blackraven2 blackraven2 !

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Need to Stop

#2 of writers crossing prompt submissions a submission to the writing prompts on writers' crossing. a sharp left turn from my last story. "i used to be somebody once, goddammit."

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Pheonix

#1 of writers crossing prompt submissions a little poem i wrote. oh the lives i tried to live trying on identities to find the one that fit for me; but many did not, and still don't and each me that fails the test must come to its own end.

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