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vailo
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Fantasy, Children, Humour
"Don't go to far Mandy!" a voice called out through the forest as Mandy slowly made her way through the grassy ground where she had dropped her toy. Mandy was a 7 year old girl who was incre...
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vailo
For years after school Henry had always stopped in to see his father at work. He splashed in the puddles and ran four streets up the hill where his father's workshop stood alone amongst the olive tree...
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Hans Christian Anderson
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. Ther...
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shantesh
3 votes
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Fantasy, Children
It was a strange world she was in. A world imbued with the strangest hues and flora of the strangest design. Yet there was a strange sense of familiarity about it. The tree under which she sat and pon...
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infactitsme
The creature is born of the fetid swamp. From the muck and mire, it rises to life, created from decay, rot, and strange gases that rise from the noxious fauna. It is a brute, an unthinking, unfeeling...
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infactitsme
Mrs. John Emerson, sitting with her needlework beside the window, looked out and saw Mrs. Rhoda Meserve coming down the street, and knew at once by the trend of her steps and the cant of her head that...
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Brothers Grimm
There were once a man and a woman who had long, in vain, wished for a child. At length it appeared that God was about to grant their desire. These people ha...
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Brothers Grimm
Once upon a time there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her, but most of all by her grandmother, and there was nothing that she would not have given to...
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infactitsme
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Science Fiction
I awoke to the sounds of the birds singing in the apple garden, my eyes opened to the view of a cloudless sky with the bright beautiful sun shining all its glory down upon me. I felt so happy and cont...
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infactitsme
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Fantasy, Horror
A quiet and mundane breakroom. Tiled floors with standard wood-varnished cabinets. A simple place that lets anyone in to rest -- at least, employees only. And even then, it's simplicity alienates me. ...
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