Gill a short story

Gill We left the relative shade of the peristyle garden with its white marble fountain depicting Venus, a ewer hoisted on her shoulder. The trickling figure stood in the centre of a shallow square pool,[…]

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Botched ransom

Part 1 Botched Ransom “How old are you, Chrissy?” asked the man. He was stroking her hand as he said it. “I’m twenty,” she replied uneasily. She wanted to take her hand back, but was[…]

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Sleeping

Merrdith came home around 11pm after anchoring the 10pm news show. All I remembered was falling asleep to the smell of Merrdith's shampoo still lingering in her hair long after she showered. At 2am a[…]

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The firm

Daniel Goddard turned to the last page of the contract and studied it briefly, then turned back to the front page. He noted each yellow sticky pad note and compared the notations to the paragraphs[…]

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Sarah & karly pt.1

As a high school senior, I decided to join the newspaper at my school. Before the year actually started, our publishing company held a "Boot Camp" sort of thing and extended an invitation to each[…]

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