Stories

  • Dreamcatcher

    I am around. Floating. The things I see are insanely cool! Like I see all these stories come to life while she sleeps and I feel the emotion of disappointment when she loses the story. Then when she’s awake I try and give them back to make sure she tries to write them down. I…

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  • Reader of Self

    This book continues to get more interesting as I read along! Seeing this character’s life fleshed out in such incredible detail is inspiring. Truly captivating! I see myself relating to the protagonist a lot. The author, P. Harrison really made a sympathetic and grounded character which I haven’t seen a lot of other authors do…

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  • It’s Just Like…

    “Hey, that sounds so cool, but do you know what it reminds me of? Have you seen the TV. show…” I zone out at the end of the sentence and don’t notice that my friend Jordan is still speaking. Dude, in the nicest way possible, shut the fuck up and don’t dismiss my own work.…

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  • Two Paths Ahead

    I expected that at some point I would come across a fork in the path. What I did not expect was figuring out which of the two ways I should keep walking along. I look up and try to see what is up ahead of each path. The left one goes through a bushy and…

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  • On Death’s Door

    The doctors told me last night that I have only days left to live. My body is completely shutting down and I’m struggling to lift my hand up at all. I know I don’t have long. I regret not accomplishing more in my life. I always waited for life to be handed to me. Now…

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  • Small Talk

    So instead of asking someone “How are you?” in a whiny, customer service voice and giving the prescribed syllabus of standard answers, I like to turn it on its head. Instead, I improvise a question that confuses the other person. Like “How many oranges does it take to elephant a mountain, but can you round…

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  • D-S-Y-L-U-X-O-E: Dyslexia

    I’m a storyteller – or at least try to be. My brain loves jumping all over the place. Sort of how my brain jumps around the alphabet, possibly undiagnosed dyslexia. D-S-Y-L-U-X-O-E. Dyslexia. I am naturally drawn and intrigued by words and language, so I try to write lyrics, poems, novels, and comedy too. Writing can…

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  • Shit! I opened my feed to see news of Jayden McNorton dying in a head-on collision. I went to high school with that guy. It is so close to home that I worry about my own life. I drive down that road every day to work and it could have been me in that fatal…

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  • Sinking Ship

    Going down into the ocean beneath. Screams echo out from my vessel into the depths of the vast and empty ocean I am surrounded by. I hear the whispers of the captain with his first mate. The first mate is pleading to the captain to admit he made a mistake setting off. The weather was…

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  • Lighten Up

    Oh, I’m on… this is odd… Why am I on at this hour? It must be about 2am, I’m never on at this time. He looks angry, I’ve seen him angry before but never like this. She’s crying, but she’s not talking, I don’t understand why they are like this tonight; I’ve never heard them…

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  • In The Quietness

    I’m drunk again, shit. What became of me, my hopes, my dreams, my life. This world drives me crazy, I’ve worked hard for thirty goddamn years. For thirty years of my life, I have been a good boy smiling and being polite, holding the door open, and allowing others to walk ahead of me. Not…

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  • True Love

    There truly is no one like her… I saw Angel today, a sight so breathtaking, I really can’t fathom how lucky I am, she is perfect, well… perfect for me. I hate keeping this relationship a secret, but I know no one else would understand, even my family. To them it would be weird, unusual,…

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  • Letter to Other life

    To the concern of the nearest life force, We have been trying to contact you for many years. Us humans are boring and stupidly complex. We want to know- or me especially want to know there is more out there. Us human beings have a thing called the spotlight effect where we think the world…

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  • Natural Disasters

    “Aaaaaaaachooooooooo” The world all around me shakes as my sneeze erupts. As do the volcanos across Hawaii. A lot of people blame me for their problems. I can’t help that I have allergies to their artificial creations. The crust beneath me and my tectonic joints rumble and clatter within my shell. Earth is my name…

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  • Alien by Night

    Everyday I am on this strange planet is the day I think my cover has been blown completely. Only at night when the species falls asleep can I live in my true form. Living both lives is getting tiring and I do not recharge myself as often as I require. I am making more errors…

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  • Hell on Earth

    Hell exists. I know myself since I’m in charge of this place.

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  • Apocalyptical

    Every thirty days, the population here transforms. It is a virus within our town and possibly everywhere. The sick infect others and their body has extra eyes or extra limbs attached. It is not pretty. This apocalypse started with one infected person, not exactly sure how they turned out this way. It was easy to…

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  • Amazon Alexa

    Alexa, why have you come into my life? Everything happens for a reason, as am I. Ok yeah I get it but why am I so dependent on your aid? Humans have created quite the attachment to technology such as myself. I am here for your every need. Alexa, I don’t want you to fulfil…

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