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  • Another teen pregnancy story:)

    “What the hell are you talking about?” I’m standing dead still in the hallway. Kids are streaming past us. Jack Ripley rams right into me, but I barely notice. “Um?” ...

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  • Another Teen Pregnancy Story, Part 2

    Hi:) Here's part two of the Mick and Kat saga; I just wanted to clarify really fast, because a lot of people commented about the title. 'Another Teen Pregnancy Story' ...

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  • Back To Nantucket, Part one.

    *Disclaimer: I don't usually title my stories, so this is only a temporary title. It was midday, ninety degrees, and Nell was beginning to wonder why she’d ever gotten a ...

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  • Unrequited

    this is just a beginning, but I wanted to post it anyway because I haven't written in a long time.MargoIt’s 3 AM. I wake up, dizzy, disoriented, hung over. I ...

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  • Dwell

    They arrive home. It’s late. Brian pays the babysitter, walks her to her car, watches her drive away. Sixteen. He remembers sixteen. When life was that simple. Prom dates and ...

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  • Starched, Even (short story)

    Keys, keys, keys. Where are they? He has misplaced them. His hair falls haphazardly, grazes the collar of his stiff oxford shirt. Maisie ironed it for him, starched it, even. ...

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I was flummoxed by fractious Franny's decision to abrogate analgesics for the moribund victims of the recent conflagration. Of course, to display histrionics was discretionary, but I did so anyways, implicating a friend in my drama to make the effect cumulative. I think a misanthrope would have a prosaic appellation, perhaps one related to autonomy and the rejection of anthropocentrism. I think they wouldn't think much of the prominence of watching the coagulation of tea to prognosticate future malevolent events, not even if those events were related to jurisprudence.
— Spearmint