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  • Short Story » Action / Adventure
    bear-hunter
    6

    The mountains were topped with layers of white snow. Around them the grasslands swayed in the morning breeze. The sun was high in the sky by now, its yellow rays ...

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    blob - Mar 1, 2006 - 6 min read

  • Short Story » Fantasy
    Annie and the Sky
    11

    The day was perfect, the sun was bright, the sky so blue with wisps of fluffy clouds. You would have though you walked into a painting. It was just like ...


    ladydark - Mar 1, 2006 - 5 min read

  • Short Story » Science Fiction
    Multi-Universal War.
    3

    Okay, this is a thread co-created by Myself and DQ. We have decided that there will be rules for those wishing to join. We are both sick of having stories ...


    Jiggity - Mar 1, 2006 - 5 min read

  • Novel / Chapter » General
    Why Ch.10
    3

    A blue mustang pulled up into the driveway of a two story house with a biege roof. A woman inside with long brown hair took her keys out of the ...


    Black Ghost - Feb 28, 2006 - 5 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Song of Chief
    4

    Song of Chief After seeing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Laughter is written on the windows—insanity drunk and swinging at night—ornaments on a sad tree—liquor in the hearts of ...


    ZanyPlebeian - Feb 28, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Novel / Chapter » Romantic
    Purple Lipstick on my Collar (UPDATED 5/15)
    37

    This is rated PG-13 for the story content and topic. (It is then rated R when the story comes to chapter 10. You've been warned.) I'm open for critique. There ...


    Mattie - Feb 28, 2006 - 8 min read

  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy
    Faeid (Part I; Edited)
    13

    Note: This was the first draft I posted, continue down to the edited version. This is what spawned Shadow Kin, which is here somewheres... all comments, suggestions, crits welcome. Faeid ...


    Caligula's Launderette - Feb 28, 2006 - 17 min read

  • Novel / Chapter » General
    Tony. Episodes of a dillusional man. Part 3
    3

    Tony was taking a nice drive in his car. Well, nice may not be the word. Maybe there are no words for it. Tony doesn't really deal with words that ...


    Black Ghost - Feb 28, 2006 - 3 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Portrait of a Red-haired Woman
    5

    Portrait of a Red-haired Woman Form based on "Portrait of a Lady" by William Carlos Williams Your hair is the spreading of Autumn whose crimson, crooked hand reaches through woods ...


    ZanyPlebeian - Feb 28, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Windmill and Smile
    5

    Two poems in one, written straight after the other. I figured I'd save some space on the board :D Windmill You stand alone in the field, Your wheel clattering as ...


    uniaeca - Feb 28, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    I write haikus?
    5

    Apparently so. It beats doing real work at school. There's no real point to any of them. Enjoy. Insomnia is, cropcircles burned into wax, and doubt with matches. The curtains ...


    Ohio Impromptu - Feb 28, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Novel / Chapter » General
    Why Ch. 7-9 (REWRITE)
    7

    Why Ch. 7-9 (REWRITE) Joe stood frozen in his place, staring at the man with the gun. He had now concluded that his day had just gotten worse, much worse. ...


    Black Ghost - Feb 28, 2006 - 9 min read

  • Short Story » Fantasy
    Sans Soleil (short)
    18

    I thought I ought to post something in the literary forums. I'm rather content with this. But any thoughts or comments are welcome. Any one have a guess why, at ...


    Poor Imp - Feb 27, 2006 - 3 min read

  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy
    Beyond the Doors (Excerpt)
    6

    This is Chapter Three of my story, but it's beginning of one thread of the story, so I suppose it supports a beginning-like taste to it anyway. I just want ...


    xanthan gum - Feb 27, 2006 - 4 min read

  • Novel / Chapter » General
    JESS - The Love of a Shepherd [CHAPTER 2]
    1

    This is the second installment of my story about Jess. Although I have spent hours on this peice I am still struggling to put it together properly. Any advice would ...


    Blue Haze - Feb 27, 2006 - 10 min read


The day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by the loveliness of its sunshine and the balminess of the air. I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein