Old Smoky

Heather D   I remember it like it was yesterday. I grew up on a cattle ranch, with the nearest neighbour over a mile away. I was eighteen and alone at home during the late summer. The rest of the family was working in the hay fields while I stayed at home and working in Mom’s garden. Mom had planted a large vegetable garden in the backyard, but the weeding seemed to always fall to me. Although, truth-be-told, I did

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The Awakening of Blair Fortner

By Anonymous Part 1… Blair Fortner leaned over her open suitcase and let her strawberry blonde mane cascade down over her shoulders and hang in her way. She was used to working through that veil of hair. But she was going to have to figure out something to do with it now. African weather was notoriously humid, especially where she was going. The intense heat and humidity wouldn’t go too well with long, damp hair. There was jungle rot to

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The Awakening of Amy

Amy8680 (Amy8680@Yahoo.com) My name is Amy and I am 19 years old, earlier this year a horrible thing happened to me that changed my life forever. Up until this time I had only ever kissed a boy, much less gone any further. I was innocent and my body was sweet, pretty, and untouched, at least until that day. It was a warm summer day and I decided to go for a walk and enjoy the beautiful weather. So I put

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Those Dog Days of August

Rachael Ross (rache696@yahoo.com) My life changed just after I’d turned eighteen and moved into a new life at Community College. That’s how I liked to think of it. After leaving the modest village where I’d grown up, I’d moved to the modest town where I was attending college. I wanted to be a graphic artist or something, I wasn’t really sure. But I liked art and I was kind of good at it anyway. So those were the kind of

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