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Kara S
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Kara's Stories
The Best-Laid Plans of Rats and Men
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Clouds of dust plumed up as sheets of residue fell off the windowsills. Long abandoned, the house shuddered under the force of the ...
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Whose line is it Anyway !
Suddenly the room went dark. Sam, Miguel & Michael were all alone now. The visitors were gone. An eerie quiet settled in the bedchamber ...
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Realtors and spies
We are building a bridge...a new path to a new town. This area was recently bought by a big company and they want to develop a new ...
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Witches and Toothpaste and Cats, Oh My!
Never leave a container of mint balls next to a witch's cauldron. But the trick to this is, what exactly is a witch? When I first came ...
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On Second Thought, Let’s Just Eat Them
The men are afraid to ask you but “Do you not crave blood sir” ? Listen well lieutenant, I take no pleasure in feeding. All things ...
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In A Purple Haze at the Edge of Space
Maybe it was the length of time I’ve spent in the silence of space, but music has meant a lot to me these last 5 years. I’d gotten ...
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Putting the Mush in Mushroom
Once, I had read how the mushrooms we see in the forest are not individual organisms, but part of a much larger whole that exists underground ...
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Which Witch Doctor Doctored the Witch, Doctor?
Her hands trembled as she took the reigns, knowing what it meant to leave. She tapped Lancelot with her heel and he left the open door ...
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Fait Accompli Nonchalantly
“I’ll have you know ‘goblins,’ as you unenlightened savages call us, have been allowed to be employed and mingle in daylight hours ...
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The Doc Who Needed A Doc
Sunlight poured in through the grimy hotel window, rousing me from my slumber. I yawned and consulted the bedside alarm clock, which ...
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Alice and the Ogre
Alice's life changes on a Tuesday morning. The coffee shop she works at, close to campus, is crowded with professors and students getting ...
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Metaphors of Impressment
The children heard the sudden gritty rubbery traction sound of approaching tyres and leapt off the narrow woodland path with only a ...
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Cheaters Never Prosper
I took my sharpie and I wrote all over his car. I couldn’t believe that
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Too Many Legs
My partner and I pulled up outside the scene of the crime, annoyed to find the news crew had already beaten us there. It was the third ...
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The Last Time We Said Excuse Me
I took two weeks off of work and told everyone I was going to Mexico with my parents. The truth was that I was going to sit in my apartment ...
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A Voice In The Dark: Part II
Mitch and Mindy leapt up, terrified what lay beneath. They twirled around, examined the human remains occupying their chairs and, in ...
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Gilford, the Unnecessarily Magical
Where am I going to find a box of grits at this hour? It’s an unconventional ingredient, as far as magical components go, but Southern ...
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Advice From a Culinary Vampire:
It was a really hot day to be in the onion fields. The heat made the aroma of the onions strong and pungent. The citizens residing ...
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A Shell Unlike Any Other
The boy suddenly woke up on the shores of a beach. Bitter cold and the familiar stench of coastal decay overtook him. The deafening ...
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Emerald Eyes
Finally after 3 years of searching, I had found my little sister. There was only one problem, directly on top of the cage that she ...
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Good Morning, Beanstalk
The giant’s body lay face down in what this morning had been Halbert Haversham’s home, stables, and small orchard. The giants left ...
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Walking on Eggshells
Humpty Dumpty was tired. He was tired of being glued over and over again...why did he had such a thin and fragile shell? He wanted ...
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An Assemblage of Dolls
The doll continued sewing in the dark corner, greeting the needle spiders as they clattered across the wooden shelf. Many avoided her ...
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Life Is A Game
He brought his hands together in glee, his eyes gleaming. He received looks as if he had lost his mind, but that just increased his ...
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Mugwort’s School for Murderers
I ran through the hallways trying to get to class. It seemed like one of those scenes in a movie where the main character is comically ...
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Celtic Maid of Disaster
Grind the beans until they turn as smooth as sand in an hourglass. Pull the lever until the water streams down in an iridescent cascade ...
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Becoming One
He looked at the night sky and imagined other worlds. Alternative universes where he was happier, wealthier and maybe a couple of inches ...
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The Mythical Sword of Fromage
It had been eleven months to the day since the storms first began. Most cities were but flattened piles of crumbling brick and rotting ...
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From Wicked to CEO
I started out as any normal child. I’d pass the days away playing silly childish games, like duck-duck goose or tag with the neighborhood ...
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The Wanakalagooga Wifi Experience
Once a year we traveled to the same camping spot. It was a place called Camp Wanakalagooga. Wide open space in the middle of nowhere ...
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