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It wasn't any other Monday at my desk, this morning was different,and changed my life forever. I opened up this email,and I wish I never did it ruined my life. I never thought of anything bad happening with opening this email, but was I wrong. The email subject said, Welcome back to work, I thought was an email, telling me welcome back congrats on the new baby. This Monday was my first day back after having my baby boy. Little did I know it was going to be my last. This email was definitely not welcoming at all it was life threatening. The e...
Night has came again, and the tears streaming down my face,with fear not sadness. The fear of my town , and the safety of the women that go running at night. I whip my tears off my face before coming out of my office,so I can explain to my team what was going on. I letting my team know that there is another victim, another young women running at night, explaining that makes thirteen women so far killed by what they call a beast man. I apologize to my team for working another night shift,once again , station nineteen my team was first on the ...
Submitted to Contest #85
That's the thing about about the city... You can put a body in a dark alley and no body will notice it being dead at least a couple days. I hope anyways so we can get where we are going by the time they find him. I help my mom hide the body of my step dad, he was abusive drunk that my mom couldn't take it anymore. Sadly this is the third step dad I had, but first one she killed once things got rough we would just leave in the middle of the night. Sadly nothing really bad happen in the last two marriages probably could of gotten worked out,bu...
Submitted to Contest #81
My name is Zylie, Cooper this is my story about how my twin brother brought me back to my childhood home. I wanna start out with how my brother dying, he was in a horrible car wreak was raining ,and dark he just got off a midnight shift. Zade, Blackship, died February, 12th, twenty -nineteenth , had his funeral on valentine's day morning ,not how you expect to spend valentine's day. Watching his wife,and two kids crying over his casket, Lily,his wife ,Zoey and Joey his son and daughter sobbing away. Them sobbing over my brother like that ...
Submitted to Contest #70
I am in prison for what you ask killing my lover. I don't deny it even though it's not true. Everyone thinks it was me so what can I do? The evidence was all there I was framed with no proof. I had no reason to kill my lover and neither did she. I know that gun shot was meant for me but got him instead. He jumped right in the way that rainy night. She ran off made sure she had a alibi, she thought of everything that smart girl. I heard her make the phone call as running away she said to the person at the end of the nine,one,one call. Please ...
There is this boy he is always alone no friends with nothing to do. He lives with his mom in the woods just them no one else for miles , and miles away. She never trusted anyone , she never had much of a family. She thought her and her son was everything she needed. She never noticed how lonely her boy was he always playing in the backyard alone. Always alone except for when him and his mom take walks back into the woods. He loves the woods he talks to the animals Everytime he goes on these walks. He imagines they talk back but he knows anim...
I am a stay at home mom with two boys been married for almost 12 years
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