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It felt as though four months of false hopes, dead ends and being passed from consultant to consultant had ended as soon as the clean glass doors slipped shut behind ...

Cara Hart had survived ordeals in her life, but nothing like this. She slipped down the door of her childhood bedroom as though she had just been run through and ...

This is what I dreamt on the 21st of August. The time is 2:28 and I feel more than a little hazy around the edges. I need a drink. My ...

Hi. This is an extract, not a short story. Even posting the whole of chapter one would exceed the word count. Sorry it doesn't really come to an end but ...

A piano is a cheat instrument. That’s not to say that it isn’t difficult to get right, it’s just a hell of a lot safer than the string section of ...

A short letter to home Mother, recently, this has been too much. You say to me that you understand, that in your prayers you are here beside me. You know ...

A short note: this could be their last night because they will fight a battle in the streets the next morning. It's sort of a long story, but I hope ...

There are so many confessions. I am unsure of where to begin. L plates hold many different meanings for many different people. Fellow road users, I have found, seem to ...

Anyone familiar with Heartless from Action/Adventure fiction might recognise some of the guys here, but anyone who read the most recent extract might be a little taken aback by this ...

What is the weight of conviction? Grace wonders. She is sixteen, and to her the car is nothing but a melting pot for the family’s bad feeling as it trundles ...

Chloe Chloe felt as though four months of false hopes, dead ends and being passed from consultant to consultant had ended as soon as the glass doors slipped shut behind ...

Part of the brief for this piece was that I had to keep the words below 300. It's called microfiction, apparently. Anyway, I'm still not sure - for obvious reasons ...

Hi everyone! I posted this a couple of moonths ago with plans to turn it into an actual short story rather than some random metaphor thing. That didn't happen. I ...

The Fire and the After And in the very ending of your world, forests will be flame. Mountains will blind white in the heat of centuries’ vice. Oceans will chaos ...

Hi everyone. even a novel of 80,000 words must begin somewhere, right? Let me know what you think, especially if you want to read on. m ******** Cara Hart had ...

Fire, After And in the very ending of your world, forests will be flame. Mountains will blind in the heat of centuries. Oceans will chaos with the blood of the ...

The first story I've written on my new shiny laptop. Please review, it's only little. Sorry in advance that it's typical of my writing, in that I seem to repel ...

I don't know why, but I struggle with Wuthering Heights. I feel like i need a flow diagram or something. Can anyone offer any pearls of wisdom? I feel like ...