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  • Being Me in a World Where 'Me' is Not Accepted

    This is something that just popped in my head and may cause me to take a short break from Breena. Sad, I know. What do you think so far? Is ...

    5 min read
  • The Pursuit (One)

    Okay guys, new story. I posted the preface in this, just because it's short and I thought it'd be lonley in a post all by itself. So tell me what ...

    6 min read
  • The Pursuit (two)

    Amelia-Fifteen Years Old. “That filthy, little monkey has another thing coming if he thinks he can just get away with something like this.” I stomp my muddy feet on the ...

    7 min read
  • Let Them Die (Prologue)

    I laid my newly bought pages on the table between us. My ink well and pen then followed. All the while her eyes watched my every move. The woman was ...

    2 min read
  • This Book's Cover has been Judged

    The old woman stared at me. She squinted her eyes and pursed her thin lips. I never thought that I would be interrogated in the grocery store, but then again, ...

    4 min read
  • Becky

    I had been sitting in the bath for a better part of an hour. My mind could not wrap itself around the concept that my parents wanted to pay someone ...

    7 min read
  • Becky 2

    Chapter Two The library was the only room in any house we had lived in that I was ever excited to enter. Physically, there were walls, a floor and a ...

    7 min read
  • Fly Away (Preface)

    She does not remember this day. She was too young; a newborn. This putrid day that cursed her family and has forever burdened her. Her birth that her mother loathed ...

    2 min read
  • Fly Away (One)

    One “The promise land,” that is what they all had called it. It was an undiscovered realm where the people of England could escape to and relish in the rich ...

    5 min read
  • Grace Happens (1)

    Authors Note: edited once or twice but could use some more pointers. They can't hurt. More to come. When your alarm goes off, it plays an awful, high pitched sound ...

    5 min read
  • Lamp Post

    Standing tall and proud, Endlessly and uncomplaining. It seems sad and lonely When rendered useless in the light. But as the burning Sun beings to set, You are no longer ...

    1 min read
  • Choices

    Choices Her bare feet padded along the dirt to a rhythm only she could hear. The flames danced in her eyes in a way I had only read ...

    13 min read
  • Chapped and Peeling

    Chapped and Peeling “Maybe we should buy one of those televisions,” Alice suggested. Grumbling from his worn out recliner, Burt said, “What for? I bought you a radio ...

    9 min read


"And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland