
Dark thoughts in a brightly lit pubSweat, heat, drums, too much noise, too much people… I’m not myself anymore; I haven’t been myself for ages now. Where’s she gone, I wonder? The beer is in my hand and with every sip I slip, for the last time now. There’s no way I’ll ever get back up. I let the noises in my head and the poison in my veins, drag me away. I see her, but I don’t even bother to say her name. I quit! Alright? I quit! Drag me away now. Do what you always wanted. I’m too tired and she’s too dead anyway. The memories of her, cut deep. Oh! How the sweet pain drains the life, from this corpse I live in. The drunker Dark thoughts in a brightly lit pub by ~stepwisePT
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The Gentrified End of Town On a day in rainy June, Mitch pulled up in front of his big home in a cul de sac on the gentrified part of town, stepped in the front door with a bag of groceries in one hand and a bottle of Appleton Estate in the other, and found his wife staring down at him from the kitchen with a .38 revolver. He stopped, and gently set the groceries next to the big pile of shoes, boots, and spring jackets lying by the door. Calmly he strode to the living room table and set down the bottle, a black barrel following him all the way.
Mitch was not a handsome man. Lanky, crooked, and ghostly in complexion, he was the sort of soulless shell one sees a lot o The Gentrified End of Town by *SgtPossum
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The Buyer, Chapter 1"On yer knees, me beauties...we gots a customer!"
The cold mud splattered as his knees hit the soggy dirt, soaking through his meagre wardrobe and freezing his already cool skin. Dark, slightly spiraled hair was plastered to the back of his neck, head bent against the offending night. He waited in line with the damned he was condemned with, and he waited.
It was hard to see through the curtains of rain that cascaded over the night-draped forest, but he heard them long before he could see them. Two sets of footsteps. Two someones approaching.
The shuffling gait, the uneven pace, was clearly that of his owner, the one who possessed all the m The Buyer, Chapter 1 by *HeadmistressMercedes
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Repairing the shattered feeling.A little boat calmly swayed on the waters of the huge bay. The sky felt heavy and the dark clouds seemed to merge with the sea on the horizon. Around the bay, the mountains stood still, resisting the cold and howling at the light breeze that ran through their valleys. Suddenly, breaking the dreamy and numbing feeling, a line of white light branched, bursting the dim lit skies. Then, the foreseeable thunder made itself heard, powerfully resonating. What a wondrous sound it made. It sounded like it wanted to repair the skies and scold the reckless lightning. Now, the thunder has faded, the night as fallen and the boat, finally free of its moori Repairing the shattered feeling. by ~stepwisePT
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Dye - Chapter One Sun City, Kansas - December 2, 2011 - 8:19 PM - Rachael's POV -
Shouldn't they be done by now? Rachael thought boredly as she waited for her parents. The courthouse was freezing, and she'd left her coat in her mother's locked car. This has been going on for hours. Relax, she told her inner voice. Everything will turn out to be okay. It always has. However, her good mood dwindled when her mother came out with a look of defeat in her eyes. "Your father really outdid himself this time," she murmured, kissing Rachael on the fore-head. "Winning will be a lot harder this time." Her mother left, and she sighed in near defeat. If.....if we're already this close to losing, what if we don't- Quit talking like that, her mental voice shot back fiercely. Whatever happened to never giving up? We lost, she thought finally. If Mom isn't even confident, then how can we win? I....I can't, I <b> Dye - Chapter One by ~Angel--of--Mysteries
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Empty Windows: Chapter 1 I've always found that beginning stories is difficult. No matter where you start, there is always an ever-important before. So I think I will start at the very beginning. There was nothing. And then, out of the centre, something happened, and there was something. That something got bigger, and bigger, and the universe came into being, beautiful and terrible and amazing. That of course, is all theory, and who knows if it is the truth. It also, probably, is a little too far back for me. Eons back. So, it might be best for me to start a little closer to the here and now. Let's try a Wednesday afternoon. That might work. I was walking. Jogging Empty Windows: Chapter 1 by ~FlickeringCandle
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