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48 min read stories

Discover a collection of stories which are around 48 minutes read time.

38 min read

The Trouble with Ceremony

* Story contains bad language

My grenadier, Specialist Taylor, did not attend our welcome home ceremony at the Marriott Hotel and Convention Center in Coralville, Iowa, because in the...

38 min read

Substitutes

* Story contains bad language

Did you notice our daughter is not our daughter anymore?

52 min read

Jon

* Story contains bad language

Back in the time of which I am speaking, due to our Coördinators had mandated us, we had all seen that educational video of "It's Yours to Do With What You...

41 min read

Tenth of December

* Story contains bad language

Wasn’t overcoming this feeling of fear what truly distinguished the brave?

42 min read

The Semplica-Girl Diaries

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SEPTEMBER 3rdHaving just turned forty, have resolved to embark on grand project of writing every day in this new black book just got at OfficeMax. Exciting...

39 min read

The Husband Stitch

A newly-married wife holds on to the only secret she feels she has left—a mystery her increasingly insidious husband is desperate to unravel.

43 min read

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba discovers a wonderful cave of riches... but will the forty thieves discover him?

55 min read

The Snow Queen

* Story contains bad language

Two friends are separated by a Snow Queen and an icy heart.

50 min read

Babiole

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A Princess is turned into a monkey called Babiole by a wicked fairy's spell.

45 min read

The Princess Mayblossom

Princess Mayblossom is trapped in a tower, safe from a dangerous witch.

40 min read

The Return of Moby Dick

* Story contains bad language

Once again I cursed to myself the idea of having planned this writing course

40 min read

The Kneeler

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I woke to the sound of something creaking on the porch...