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The accident was sure to make the news considering all of the after events. There were squealing tires and a very loud crash that made everyone jump. There were three vehicles involved and it tied up traffic on the busiest corner in town. It created a lot of chaos and people ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. The police were dispatched right away and showed up trying to untangle...
Johnny ‘The Voice’ Best was one of the funniest guys on the planet. He had his own TV show at one time. He had his own online blog. His tours were sold out and his recordings all went triple platinum. He was extremely popular and on top of the world. He had legions of fans, but probably none more devoted than Helen Trout. She was a introvert, always shunning the limelight and happy to be lost...
Matilda was always the life of the party. She would be dancing and carrying on well past midnight, still having fun with the lampshade on her head, while Joe would have gone to bed around nine, maybe nine-thirty, ten the latest. When they went to the beach, she wanted to have sand castle contests with the rest of the beach people. She chased the little kids around playing in the water with them...
Eric Strong was incredibly nervous. He had about a mile walk before arriving at his girlfriend’s place. Tonight was the night, he was going to ask his beloved, Amanda, to marry him. But, he was getting cold feet. “I need a sign of true love and if that happens then I will ask her to marry me.” So, he walked slowly, alert, waiting for that special sign that would balance things in the f...
The new subdivisions had been assigned different individual colours. There was the blue, green, red, yellow, orange, purple, pink and violet neighbourhoods. It was a very interesting idea. They were dubbed a certain colour because they featured the many shades of that individual tint. For example, the Blue Neighbourhood boasted houses that were cyan, steel, sky, electric, teal, pigeon and azu...
Heather Lynn Stone was a Caucasian female, as well as an albino. The white eyebrows accented the icy blue eyes and her many, various tattoos accented her beliefs. With a face full of metal piercings, there was something freaky about the teenager. Her hair, usually worn in braids, was also white. She often looked into the mirror and cried. “Why was I born such a freak?” She ha...
The limos pulled up one by one stretching along 760 United Nations Plaza, in Manhattan, New York. The dignitaries, ambassadors and secretaries of every country in the world emerged from the individual vehicles. There were nods of recognition and some stern, almost dirty looks. The security was intense and every person was carefully scrutinized before they entered the building even if they were...
It was extremely dark, the night was ink black and the wind sang like a chime. There were no stars or moon to shine the way. Evan walked slowly down the beach and was glad that he had been that way many times before. The logs, stumps, trees and rocks all looked familiar. He had debated about meeting this girl all day long ever since she had invited him. Earlier in the day, he was walking the...
Sara Windermere had never won anything in her entire life despite entering hundreds of contests and buying thousands of dollars worth of lottery tickets. She always said that only her name could be in a hat for a prize and she would still lose. She had gone out and acquired everything known to humankind to change her luck including a real four leaf clover, which she had spent hours looking for...
When she was seventeen years old, a young girl named Nancy was babysitting when three dumb asses decided it would be fun to scare her. It was dark, a storm was brewing and she was alone with the kids when three knocks on three different windows made her scream loud enough to wake the dead. She called the police and then her ever protective father. The police charged two of the boys with a list...
It was 2:15 am, and Kamil knew that it was it for sleep. The insomnia was a debilitating disease that had no cure. He had consulted every doctor, tried every type of sleeping pill, every known remedy on the Internet and nothing had worked. The magic realm of sleep was not one that he could so easily penetrate. Back in Nepal, when the sleep was drained from his soul, the man would go out and si...
The rag tag ball team stood there and looked over the fence at the broken window. It wasn’t just any old broken window it belonged to that of the old Cooper house, the most haunted place in the entire planet, probably the whole universe. Igor, the newest member of the Kemptville Mud Hens (the official/unofficial name of the team) stood at the fence with the others, but didn’t understand what wa...
Adele stood in the empty guest room and was lost in a dreamy state. The eyes were cast on a distant land; her face a content fuelled by a major event. From the entrance, her mother watched the young woman. “What are you thinking?” Adele, startled, turned around and looked at her mother a little annoyed, but with that radiant smile that could light up the largest metropolitan area.
Tatiana, a pretty seventeen year old girl, stood in front of the two doors that looked exactly the same. “Oh, my God, you’ve got to be kidding me?” The thunder of the beast was right behind and coming hard and fast at her. “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a terrified girl by her toe. That isn’t going to help.” The beast turned the corner of the complicated labyrinth and...
I couldn’t believe it. I was pacing back and forth, ready to explode, my fingers stuffed in my mouth. Finally, I turned around and confronted Gonzo. “You’re going to do what?” It was muffled because I still had my hands in my mouth. I pulled them out. “You’re going to do what?” “I’m going to surf down the side of the volcano right after it erupts.” He shovelled out that...
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