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Chris Dodds
@chrisdodds
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Chris's Stories
Immortal Scents
Some might judge me for eating a Jimmy Dean pancake on a stick (much less 3 of them) while I sit in my bath, but I stopped caring about ...
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The mystery dentist
Mason Howard was a dentist who loved the library. He would always read books and check as many books as possible.
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The Art of the Bald Head
A long time ago, In a land called Kentucky, There once lived a man, Who wasn't very lucky, And one day he fell, Right into a well, And ...
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Slippery Slope
What else would you expect to happen with a bunch of family members with digestive issues, living under one roof, eating unfamiliar ...
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The Mirror Has Two Feces
There are 5 rules to keeping your wife happy, my father told me. Mom always seemed content, so I've come to believe they must be true ...
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PGDA
“No no, not PGA, P “D” GA,” the director said. All the guests, in their finest tweed and suede, looked positively indignant. “This ...
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Malarkey Containment Failure
My cell phone suddenly crashed. When it started up again, there was only this long binary number on the screen: 010100110111010101100010011011010110100101110100. Then ...
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Who needs friends, anyway?
One would think that a name like Ignacio Cumberbottomwich would be a social curse, never mind that the boy who it belonged to was also ...
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Metal Detecting
Josh paced back and forth. He had never felt more nervous in his life. He knew Olivia loved him, but would she be ready for marriage ...
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One more for the collection
"No!” I shouted. “You can’t leave! Not now!” But my cries were barely audible over the roar of the sirens. My vision was blurred by ...
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Wiggin Out
I stand at the bottom of the stone steps and look up. Ridgegate Academy is tall and wide, almost grand, with pillars and columns reminiscent ...
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The Boy Next Door
I can’t stop thinking about the boy next door. He moved into town a few weeks ago and hasn’t said one word to me. He seems to live ...
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Failed delivery
I’m fascinated by our mailman. His laid back drawl reminds me of Hank the Cowdog and it’s impossible not to picture him loping across ...
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Everything is fine
The funny thing about everyone loving you is that you’ll never feel more alone once you’ve arrived there. You smile and laugh and accept ...
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A Bit of a Distraction
Page 2678. The last page of the book Jennie had been trying to finish for about a year now. She takes a deep breath and begins to read- ...
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Waffle Champion
“So this is how I die.” You stare up at the dimming fluorescent lights of the diner. You feel the chunk of burnt waffle lodged in your ...
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The Ants That Ate San Francisco
I waited with bated breath as the sky turned into crimson red and the air turned from feathers into daggers. She did it, she single ...
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Crap
You wake up to find yourself surrounded by orange walls and gigantic pieces of candy. You then look up in horror to see your gigantic ...
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Aaron’s Unlucky Day
Ethel was displeased. How Aaron could’ve forgotten to do the laundry 16 days in a row was simply beyond her ken. “I’ll give him one ...
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The Verminator
In der Erwartung, ein Schmetterling zu werden, in der Hoffnung, große Flügel wachsen zu lassen und zu vermeiden, Frühstück, Mittag- ...
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Role of the Dice
“FACKORFFFF!” - he leant forward stretching his neck, revealing tendons, face red, mouth wide. “FACKORR-GMPHH!” - suddenly his head ...
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And that was the last time we saw your dad
Sleep is for the weak - those who don’t have a newborn and a six year old, those who wouldn’t survive 3 hours of sleep a night, spending ...
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meringue man
You woke up and realised that it wasn't your room and it scared you so much that you were paralysed while the fire was burning everything ...
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The Streetwise Amnesiac
How am I here? In this place. My tears are long gone, as too is my mental flipbook of faces, which I can no longer recall. I see an ...
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