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The cozy brick bungalow stood on a short lane of similarly modest houses with a small, mostly overgrown park at the far end and an intersection leading to Darlington High Street.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: U
5 Stars
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Retirement had been rougher on Dudley DuBose. Always way more career-focused than his wife, it had been tough adjusting to the record amount of free time.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Berry liked movies. Correction, he loved them.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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At 10 o’clock on a warm August morning, an old but immaculate big blue Buick slowly pulled up and parked by the front gate of the largest section in Serenity Springs Cemetery, Azalea Falls’ oldest, biggest burial ground.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: U
5 Stars
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First, they stood. Right beside each other. “It’s in the air,” she said. “See?” He looked, but he was either unsure or unwilling.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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“We could go to Principle Martin’s office right now. An offense like this would lead to a week suspension at best. Pick up the pen and write.” I sighed and wrote, “Montgomery Sanchez. May 29th, 2005.”
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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That afternoon, she still believed that her father had not meant what he had done. Once the black cloud had lifted, as it always did, he would come to his senses and beg Mum’s forgiveness.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Their hands…weaved together…their bodies in the dance…their bodies rely on each other. I miss you. I miss when we could rely on each other. Us. A world in the world.
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Thibault Defert sits in his racecar in the shelter of his team’s pit garage. His only immutable belief in life is that he was destined to be right here. Now, he would rather be anywhere else.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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When Dmitri slammed head-on into his watershed moment, he was behind the wheel of a Ford F-250 doing eighty up I-5, somewhere north of Azalea, Oregon.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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Born weeks apart, Julep and Ellis were playmates from the start and had been classmates through 10th grade.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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My ex-girlfriend is there when I get home from work. I find her sitting on the couch, wearing nothing but a pair of black lacy knickers and one of my old shirts, rolling a fag in front of the TV.
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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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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It had been a week since I'd last left the house. I'd barely made it back last time.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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There’s all these picturesque poems, anecdotes about scattering loved ones’ ashes. Things meant to be profound, symbolic.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars