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Transported

I found exactly what we needed, as it happened, on a Friday. It was a strange Friday, even as Fridays go. But we won't go into that. And I didn't like going out in all that snow, walking through it ... [+]

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Emotions Sorrow Love & Loss 4 min Mature Audience

Finding Hope

Corrie Haldane

My wife went to bed fifteen days ago, and she's been there ever since. We came home from the hospital dazed and empty-handed. Eleanor climbed the stairs, rushed past the freshly painted second ... [+]

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Emotions Magical Realism Sorrow Love & Loss 4 min

Across the Board of Time

Heather Santo

Lena walked through the soccer field and to the edge of the woods. The large oak greeted her, outstretched branches bursting green with the early spring. "Hello," she said, patting its trunk. She ... [+]

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Emotions Love & Loss Sorrow 5 min Mature Audience

For Always and Forever

Briana Angulo

You never know when the last goodbye is. We think we have forever until suddenly we don't. We enter with purpose and leave with only memory. I wish I had seen the battle he was fighting before it ... [+]

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Emotions Love & Loss Nostalgia 2 min

Dreams on the interstate of forests and mountains

Henrietta Mosforth

The house takes a day to dismantle. Goodwill gets the furniture. Meghan sets a ground rule for the rest: George is allowed three seconds to decide where each thing should go: in the car (to be driven ... [+]

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Emotions Love & Loss Sorrow Suspense & Mystery 5 min Mature Audience

What Happened That Night

P.A. Cornell

Josh is gone, but I see him everywhere. Even now, it's his reflection I see in the puddle as the storm brings me back to reality. I shiver. Seems I'm always cold these days. I need to get my shit ... [+]

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Emotions Joy 2 min

Be Mine

Carmela M-U

They sat together in comfortable silence, having been in each other's company for over ten years. One of their favourite places was on the swing chair, overlooking the backyard, gently moving ... [+]

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Emotions Quirky Humor 4 min

While the Cat's Away

Larina Warnock

momofgale: My husband left us, and now my 12-year-old daughter is depressed. How can I help her? Top Answer: 15 upvotes 2 downyvotes cityyouthcounselor: Your daughter is grieving and likely feels ... [+]

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Emotions Humor Quirky 4 min

The Second Person

Andrew Jones

The old woman opened her eyes, blinked a few times, and sat up in bed. She turned this way and that, peering at the objects in the small room: a low, narrow bed with fairytale figures carved in the ... [+]

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Emotions Absurd Sci-Fi & Fantasy Humor 5 min

For whom the troll tolls

Rob Roy O'Keefe

I couldn't believe it. "10,000 Kroners! That's outrageous!" I was deep in the Troms region of Norway on the Nordost Road. I had been for a while. At the moment, I was trying to cross the ... [+]

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Emotions Sorrow Love & Loss 4 min

Death of a Star

Ningjing Wu

The last apparition of Halley's Comet was in 1986, approaching Earth as close as 0.4 astronomical units. Halley takes a long journey to visit us. The comet follows an elliptical orbit that reaches ... [+]

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Emotions Humor Joy Modern Love 4 min

Route 13

Masti R Avadhani

On his first day at the Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation, twenty-five year old Masti Govind Swamy, named after the village of Masti, where his father, not he, was born, found to his ... [+]

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Emotions Absurd Humor 4 min

My Dead-End Job

Andrea Goyan

My life changed the day Cleopatra corporealized in the outdoor food court during our lunch rush. Corporealized. Bet you're surprised I know such a big word, but I do love me a good ghost story. Love ... [+]

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Emotions Sorrow Slice of Life 3 min

Petrichor

Eszter Molnar

My shift is over. And not a minute too soon. I'm on the verge of tears. I'll have to be back in less than seven hours. My armpits are clammy, I'm feeling uncomfortable, and I just want to go home and ... [+]

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Emotions Sorrow Love & Loss 4 min Mature Audience

Last Breath

L N Hunter

They always say the final sense to go is hearing, but touch lasts right 'til the end. Not over the whole body, though; I can't feel Dot's hand in mine, but this fucking diaper itches like blazes. I ... [+]

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Emotions Sorrow Love & Loss 1 min

Good Bones

Corrie Haldane

The realtor moves from room to room in silence. Charlotte and I follow, anxiously awaiting his verdict. Through the kitchen, the living room, the study. Upstairs, in and out of bedrooms. He ... [+]

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Emotions Humor 3 min

Uncle Fred Explains the Great Church Flood of '85

Linda M. Bayley

The way Little Miss Perfect tells it, you'd think I was head of a gang of street thugs when I was a kid. We weren't thugs, we were twelve. All we wanted was some prize money, or at least a bit of ... [+]

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Emotions Absurd Humor 5 min Mature Audience

80-Year-Old Hero

Elanor Lin

It was a muggy morning at Cozy Cottage Nursing Home, and the arthritis was bothering me pretty bad. Hurt to move. Hurt to type. Still does, matter of fact. That's why, when they asked me for an ... [+]

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Emotions Humor 2 min

Hopping Mad

Kathryn England

"This is the last straw," Alma said. She had just opened the mail at the kitchen table. Sitting opposite, Walter peered over the top of his newspaper. "What straw is that?" "It's anothe ... [+]

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Transported

Finding Hope

Across the Board of Time

For Always and Forever

Dreams on the interstate of forests and mountains

What Happened That Night

Be Mine

While the Cat's Away

The Second Person

For whom the troll tolls

Death of a Star

Route 13

My Dead-End Job

Petrichor

Last Breath

Good Bones

Uncle Fred Explains the Great Church Flood of '85

80-Year-Old Hero

Hopping Mad