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  • I wonder... I leave my room and go down the stairs to the kitchen. The maid is there cleaning the stainless steal appliances and white counter tops. I open the ...
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  • Considering my lack of romance the last year has been so full of sentimental drivel. It all started on my eighteenth birthday. Adults had been telling me for years that ...
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  • his eyes and tried to imagine only her smile. It warmed him against the winter chill. Apparently he'd forgot to turn the heat on again. She mumbled an answer but ...
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  • "What if you were a girl?" Monica asked. Martin blinked. "But I'm not." "You could be," she insisted. "I mean not literally. Don't go having a surgery or something, that ...
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  • He watched her curl up in the covers and grin at him over the top and wondered what this would do to them. It didn't seem so strange that two ...
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  • That feeling was what carried me through drama filled school days and turbulent home nights. My family looked all happy and complete to outsiders and during functions, but behind closed ...
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  • sleeping next to him blurting out the play by play of the nonsense in my head. someone messing with me and someone singing to me, he gets scared and i ...
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  • I shrieked, ducking and wildly diving to the side. My eyes widened as I looked up, only to see him preparing to attack again. I rolled to the side to ...
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  • "Not true, I know you very well. Do not call me Ann. I am Airacer Nexus Nine. I know what i said is heard and ignored. I was programed to ...
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  • I'm flicking ash all over the floor. I'm aiming for the ashtrays, but weeks of careful rollie action have made my aim terrible. Monday I applied to work at a ...
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