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There is a bleached skeleton that holds no marrow
- Length: 3 pages
- Age Rating: PG
The target, the target. I had little to go on.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 15
He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy
Yesterday’s air sucked out, tidied and smoothed for re-use.
He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Genre: Fiction
Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.
He dances maida maida, like a butterfly around the candle.
She said she was crying tears of happiness. That’s when I learnt that happiness could make you cry too.
It was Christmas the first time they made love; he said it felt like coming home
"I love you, Martha, but you break things. You're breaking us."
