Spider
Ok, so you're a spider. You're born with hundreds of brothers and sisters.
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Ant
Ok, so you're an ant. You have thousands of friends, so long as you pull your weight and do your job. The colony just gets bigger and bigger, that familiar smell warms you to the core.
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Silly Sailor Song
We're limping now. Floating / bobbing / sinking. Hydraulic leaks. Warning lights are blinking. Water-maker's gone. The bread has all gone stale. The new girl is on the edge. Looking rather pale.
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The Animal
-1- The beast made a snap at the slab of meat in her hand.
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Deserted
Come away with me. We'll toss our anchors out to sea. We'll run away somewhere. And fade out without a care. We can be all alone. Where just lonely winds have blown. Adventures await.
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Broken Laughter.
Part 6 •-•-•-•-•-• "Imogen. Come on Imogen, wake up" says a muffled voice that makes my hair tickle my cheek.
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Forty-four Grand
I scrape my living, Through some endless means, For mother and child, Unlike other teens. Don't come to me, All big and smart, Complaining of life, That to mine, is art.
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Hand Of My Life
Why couldn't I find the strength All I know wasn't right Just let it slip on by Same night after night Nothing changed I wish my thoughts could be heard by him I didn't want to lose him through...
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The Darkworld Chronicles Chapter 9: The Man In Green
The drums grew closer And closer And my heart beat begins to excellerate.
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The Darkworld Chronicles Chapter 8: Burning, Glistening And The Sound of Drums
Come on, come on, get out now, we're unde- Then I heard it, a horrible crack, the crack of bone..
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Star Light
This couldn't be happening to me. Astrid thought. Astrid was on a bus to an orphanage because her parents dumped. Why would they do that.
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Journal Entry 23: Slenderman.
Once we got a room we were so tired that we want straight to bed. I didn't dream at all so it was a rather peaceful sleep. I was awoken by the lovely ray of sunlight leaking through the window.
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Broken Laughter.
Part 5 •.•.•.•.•.• "I'm sorry. I didn't know that your his sister. He did mention siblings, Imogen, Peter and Johnny. But I didn't know it was you." Mr Thorn apologised, "Look it's fine.
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Eating Paper
You shake with memory, your stomach churns. You drink from time to time - are drunk few and far between. You have a handle and hold it tight - two months away from two years clean.
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Tied
Your hands behind your back, Tied tightly with a rope. Your sitting on a cold, stone floor, Wondering how you'll cope. You try to loosen the rope a bit, But your hands get covered in blood.
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Fostered By Wolves.
I run alongside wolves today, I cling to fur and brawn. I cry alongside wolves at night, Our howling so forlorn. I track alongside wolves at dawn, Our paw prints in the snow.
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Be Nimble
You know those days, when you just can't breathe. Those times when you don't see the point in being alive. Those moments when you really just want to leave. Welcome to every moment of my life.
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An Odd Trip
An Odd Trip with some antisocial organisers...
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Untitled
No one Else (Part 1) Sophie sat on a rock by the calm river up in the mountains behind her school. She was ditching like she always did.
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Lake Superior 'It was cold-and-I saw-mother. Yes, that was it, mother. Hadn't she passed away last year. I'm sure she did. Why is she here. No, where is here?' I thought.
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Untitled
During a rock climbing expedition, an accident occurred, as some of the grappling hooks gave way.
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Cycles Of War
It was war. Every day, they would sit in cold metal capsules, cramped in like mice in a cage. At their specified time, the door would unlock, and it would be their turn to fight.
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Sea Stone House
Part 3.....contains swear words I have in my grip this warm arm, the realisation that it's an arm suddenly hits me and I drop it with such force that it hits the side of the wooden bed.
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Heat
16+ warning. Heat. Condensed into stinging welts. Clenching muscles under too-hot bed sheets. Tears tugged out of reluctant eye corners. A mantra of belief. Whispered under ragged breath.
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