When you get to the main stairs, you see a cloud of black smoke rising before you. Moving cautiously closer, you see flames leaping up the stairs!

Good grief, this will never do!

However, though you are frightened of the fire, you see that it is still on…

You wait, but there are no lights. The elevator doesn't seem to be working, and you can't stand to wait any more. You get moving.

You have been asleep. But you're not in your bed. You don't even remember going to sleep. You feel like you're still half in some kind of murky dream.

Gradually you become aware of a dull roar, not far away.

You shake your head, hoping to clear it, but th…

You've heard the expression, "Everywhere you go, there you are." Well, I've got a variation for you.

"Everywhere I go, there you are."

Frankly, I'm getting tired of it. At first I thought it was just me. You know, how you see a familiar face in a cr…

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Thunder crashed again. Martin looked up from his laptop, but could see little beyond the glow of his halogen desk lamp. Just for a moment, he had fancied that he could hear a deep rumble that was closer, something that was not the rain or thunder. Somet…

I think what I might do is leave stories in draft form until the story is ready to go, and then just open it all out. The titles will have the series' name so as to help organize things. So I'm going to have one post that's a "table of contents" with link…

“What do you see?” the doctor said.

“It’s dark.”

The girl sat in the corner of the room, knees pulled up to her chin. She rocked slowly back and forth.

“What’s dark?”

The girl shook her head, one hand scratching at the side of her face until it drew…

I'm poised at the "block" section of my blog and

the anticipation, the fear, the hesitation

presses upon me like a huge pyramid balanced improbably upon my head

sinking in to fill the bald spot that this stress has weathered away from my scalp

do I dare…

You've taken it into your mouth

It's held tight between your teeth

Your tongue can sense it there so close

It will not be a pleasant taste

It's called regret, it's wrapped in pain

You know inside it will be soft

But it's for you, you know it is

So press w…

Today I tried to make a fresh start. It's still morning now.

I gussied myself up, made nice smells, chose nice duds and pretty colors, trying to be fresh.

Trying again.

I get in here and feel sucked into the vortex again, as if I were still Mrs Drudge the…

I have erred. I forgot something important, I just realized.

I knew one fact. I knew another fact. I failed to make the connection between them.

this is a real problem and I should remove some of what I wrote

it's only the second day maybe it's not been n…

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Anyway so Finnegan was free and easy and out of my hair, I'm bald but I keep it in the sink, and so was Zoe, she took her sparkles and sauce with her as we left the station, wow what a station with a highway and all this stuff even my bloomin uncle was th…

Well turns out it wasn't no cop anyhow, it was my uncle bloff and he just wanted me to sign the christmas cards, like who ever heard of an avunclular member of my extended family wanting me to sign off on a christmas card in feburary? Sure wasn't normal, …

And pretty soon I, being a suave sort of kid, I said to the chick, I said, those aren't badgers, and she lets off slappin my thigh like it was henny bloody youngman, are you following? and smiling we took off the seatbelts and hung onto the hand straps an…

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Like, there I was, see? And the gal was like hey babe, come up to the space station with me, nyet? And I was loose, I was groovin for the nice time like any of youse would be, you know?

So I'm up the ladder, sneaking a peek c…

I'm feeling better today, I'm not logged in at that other blogging site that causes me all my joy and woe. I think maybe I'm feeling stronger today. I would ideally tell these people off and tell them to get lost or to stop squicking me out, but maybe I'l…

Well hi there.

So it's like this, see?

I ran the basic 'scan and repair' thiingy that lives in Windows, and it appears to have done the trick, which is swell, and so's your old man.

I want to use this account to blur the boundaries between facts and ficti…

I'm going to use this account for 'choose your own adventure' ventures; I think that it will be an effective way to do such things.

I may have some that I at least intend as my own story, and some that I will welcome others' collaboration willy nilly, fo…

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I watched the Dragon and his Rider ascend every morning as they set off on missions, having untold and unseen adventures together. Bards began singing their tales in the tavern at night where the whole village would gather after their return every evening…

Despite the stench of unwashed reptile, I could smell the newcomer. He paused at the sound of my footsteps as I approached.

"Cara? I'm here to take you home."

My hero I thought sarcastically.

"I have a new home now," I answered. I could sense him rel…

Don't tell me "just stay strong!"

You're not getting the message.

If I were strong, this would not be a message. I am NOT strong. I'm near collapse. I can't stay strong if I am not strong to begin with.

I think I'll just stay weak until I drop off the wo…

I think I'm about to cut loose from these troublesome people

I need to take care of myself and prioritize myself and my mental health above others'

hard as that is

and did you know

that at some trying times

the heart will grow

and cross the bound'ry line…