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All I ever wanted was a chance to turn my life around. I was tired of being looked down upon and called a bum, a drifter, or a no good.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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Once there was a man named Frederick Alarcy who lived and died. He left a widow and two strong sons, and they lived through their grief on the slopes of Broken Pine Tor
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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Paisley Parker was the dark-haired, freckle-faced, green-eyed girl in Fitzhugh’s freshman English class who had said nary a word the whole term.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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Ambling along the paths of his childhood apartment complex, Will told me stories from before we met.
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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Red’s Place was the starting point for what would arguably become the most (in)famous story in the history of Semmes County.
- Length: 27 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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A cruise ship musician, aggrieved at the prospect of losing his livelihood to a backing track, turns to alcohol for consolation.
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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Lawrence looked out the balcony to the city beyond. Skyscrapers of glass and shining metal twisted up, looming like a giant’s fingers prepared to crush them all in the palm of his hand.
- Length: 22 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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An expansive absence of colour fills my view. A single, naked bulb – pure, cold – blurs into my opening eyes. This is not my flat. The realisation rocks me like a shot of tequila.
- Length: 42 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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His mind was a spring that was rapidly unwinding. As it spun, the only thoughts Chip had, involved ways to get more pills.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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Anthony blinked and looked up in a vague haze. A face was staring down at him. It was a face he didn’t know.
- Length: 29 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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Someone slams the door to the trailer and my bed trembles because this is a small “mobile home” and no one can hide anything here.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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“No, we have something quite different in mind for you, Harding. Something much more critical to the war effort in the long term.
- Length: 25 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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There I was, Bulletbull98, black stubble peppering my young face, blue eyes, and long black hair that gave the impression I was a heavy metal fan—soon to be the best streamer on the platform, I would make sure of it.
- Length: 33 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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My mother always taught me a good boy always followed the rules. Or else.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars
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He felt it, this time. This would be different. On the screen was the registration form for Raijin Karate.
- Length: 38 pages
- Age Rating: 15
5 Stars