| Baby Fat
| | Grace Asher might have avoided a dismal life, had she not been bullied throughout her entire school... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 08-06-06 |
| Words: | 2425 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Pieces of You
| | Ben and I sort the photographs into four separate mounds. At home, holidays, school pictures and... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 11-05-06 |
| Words: | 1142 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Circles
| | Susan scrapes the sliced carrots into the saucepan, small discs of orange suns, circled with the... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 05-04-06 |
| Words: | 171 | | Comments: | 13 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Holiday in a Jar
| | Somewhere there is a place called Charmness-on-sea. I donâ??t know where it is, what it looks like, who lives there, but I do know the return bus fare costs twenty-two pounds and ninety pence. It could... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | Fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-06 |
| Words: | 2783 | | Comments: | 3 | | Status: | Reader |
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| After Dance Class
| | I sat waiting with my thighs pressed to the cold stair, the surface worn smooth by the steps of many dancers, the soft, suede soles of ballet slippers, the steel clicks of patent tap shoes. My legs,... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | Fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-06 |
| Words: | 550 | | Comments: | 6 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Sick of Beans
| | Chris slams the front door behind him as he walks in. The house smells vaguely of sweat and burnt toast. A crumpled blue blanket and several wrinkled and stained shirts cover the sofa. Chris screws up... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | Fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-06 |
| Words: | 671 | | Comments: | 4 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Socks
| | By twelve â??oâ?? clock that afternoon, Chris has left the flat for his lab class and Daniel is out to lunch with his brother. Iâ??m sitting cross-legged on the floor, in the shorts I have slept in,... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-06 |
| Words: | 1102 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Starbucks Called
| | When I woke up, I noticed two things simultaneously â?? I had fallen asleep in the coffee shop and someone had stolen my rucksack. With it went my wallet, my mobile phone and, though I was not... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | Fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-06 |
| Words: | 568 | | Comments: | 8 | | Status: | Reader |
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| I'm Wearing It, Mum
| | (wrote this a LONG time ago) The green and gold stripped shirt my mother bought for me still lies in its deep red dress box, its silky emerald folds hidden in the snow-white tissue paper. I refused to... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-06 |
| Words: | 730 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Just As You Remember It
| | (wrote this a LONG time ago) My name is Kyle Leicester and I am sixteen years old, on the cusp of endless possibilities. At least thatâ??s what everyone tells me. I donâ??t know if there is anything I can... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-06 |
| Words: | 659 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Something So Soundless
| | A single snowflake danced past the penthouse window and Charlotte wondered if it would disappear or land on the pavement below. Snowflakes made a habit of that â?? disappearing before she could follow... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-06 |
| Words: | 1211 | | Comments: | 1 | | Status: | Reader |
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| Christmas
| | (wrote this a LONG time ago) Every Christmas, Sophie and I make a promise to creep out of bed at midnight and meet in the upstairs bathroom. We hatch our plans there. Christmas plans are always by far... | | Short Stories | | Genre: | fiction | | Updated: | 30-03-06 |
| Words: | 1325 | | Comments: | 2 | | Status: | Reader |
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