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Night Trains“I fell asleep for the first time on a train when I was seven.” The admission wasn’t as painful now as the experience had been at the time. “When I woke up, there was nobody there.”Night Trains
“Nobody?” She intoned as though asking a question, but her facial expression showed she was merely repeating the fact.
“Nobody. My parents, the other passengers, even the old conductor with the funny hat. Gone.” I fidgeted at the memory, it was faded but still uncomfortable. “I walked from one end of that train to the other but never saw another soul. I re-found my seat after a while and e
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PassageTucker went through the drills with the rest of the squad in a state of meditative indifference. It took focused effort to keep his mech and chem systems in check while still performing well enough to earn one of the dozen seats on the Mars shuttle. These freelance lifts were rare, and he couldn’t miss this opportunity.Passage
What little attention he could spare he directed to monitoring the other’s level of performance. He deliberately maintained a slightly-better-than-middle spot in the ten kilometer run and obstacle course. He kept that position as they commando-crawled five hundred meters through a muddy creek bed while
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RecallThere is something visceral about the sound and smell of tires screaming against pavement. The pounding of one's heart as adrenaline floods the bloodstream, body straining to hold a ton of steel and glass true as it barrels down a two lane stretch of asphalt.Recall
There's nothing that can prepare you for that moment when control has just slipped from your grasp, for the feeling of tires letting go, the realization that the ton of steel and glass you're contained in is embarking on a journey over which you no longer have any influence.
They say 'seconds feel like minutes', and while they're right, they have no idea. The re
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FluidI'm somewhat of an expert on blood, you see I've studied it all my life.Fluid
I can tell you that it's a little more than half made up of a fluid called plasma, fifty five percent to be precise. You may find it interesting that plasma is mostly water, roughly ninety percent by volume.
You may already know that the remainder of the blood, the other forty five percent, is comprised of cells; red ones and white ones.
I can talk at great length about the red and white cells, or erythrocytes and leukocytes as those of us 'in the business' like to call them. We could chat about platelets, you and I, and I could g
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Tips For Writing Flash Fictionby Stephen R. Smith with excerpts by Kathy KachelriesTips For Writing Flash Fiction
In order to improve as a writer, you need feedback. It's difficult to write something the size of a novel, and equally difficult to carve out the time required to read one and provide any sort of meaningful critique on it. This severely handicaps the feedback loop so important for the aspiring writer.
Flash Fiction on the other hand allows you to exercise all of your story writing and editing skills while creating works that can be read in a few minutes. This makes it ideal for examining ideas, developing writing skills and getting the feedback needed to he
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One Sound the Loneliest ColourCaroline walked the long way down from the bluffs, down the winding dirt road and out into the farm fields. To her right the abandoned silo - silent silhouette against the moonlit sky. Impotent concrete rocket reaching skyward, never to fly.One Sound the Loneliest Colour
Derek had been a jerk. He had driven her up there, her and the friends they shared. She'd just assumed.
Never assume.
Once Donna had arrived it was pretty clear his attention was elsewhere.
"Don't go!" He'd called out, but she left anyways. He hadn't followed.
Jerk.
In the distance a dog barked at her intrusion, but the sound di
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its such a beautiful piece of writing!!
so, you've faved one of mine (Dead Eyes, you did it a while ago haha!) and now i have faved one of yours!
wonderful wonderful work!
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