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Message in a Bottle
“Grandpa what’s that?” A tiny blonde girl pointed to a bottle half sticking out of the sand. The old man stooped over to pick it up, his spine and knees popping as he…
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Secrets Worth Keeping
Jake could see them from his bedroom window. He watched them leave in the cover of darkness from the abandoned house across the street, panicked and crying. And then the murders began. It…
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Hidden Treasure
He left in the cover of darkness. He lifted the palm leaves that concealed the boat he learned to build from an outlawed book. He prayed it would be seaworthy. A branch cracked…
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Smoke Signals
LOG: June 5, 2017, around noon – It’s been 42 days since our plane went down. Today I saw smoke coming from the northeast side of the island. I thought I was the…
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Fred
The only thing that glittered more than the road were the tears on Laura’s cheeks, sparkling ethereal in the moonlight on a midnight drive to nowhere. She blinked hard. The visibility out here…
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Happy Birthday Zachary
“Why did she even invite us?” James asked after rapping on the heavy wooden door. “She’s our neighbour.” Patty replied. “After everything that’s happened — shh she’s coming.” They stood smiling on the…
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The Window
My mom told me he’d kill me if I didn’t leave him. That was 3 years ago and the last time we spoke. She doesn’t understand. He loves me. I press my fingertips…
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Esmeralda
Max read the words on the curled slip of paper and his face went dark. “Max, c’mon man what does yours say?” Julien said. “Don’t worry about it. It’s stupid. Nobody believes that…
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The Greatest Show Unearthed
I was walking down Hamilton Street, on my way to work, when a beetle the size of a fist scurried across my path. I leapt with a shriek at its appearance. It had…
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Room 19
These walls. These familiar walls. Names and dates scrawled over every inch. Geometric patterns scratched anxiously into the light blue paint, mathematical equations he couldn’t understand. This graffiti meant nothing to Allen. It…
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