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Popular Fable Short Stories

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Loss of Youth Chapter 1

by Anonymous
6 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Fable
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ. George Aldridge awoke in a daze. His 76 year old body was rested. And yet, he still had imense trouble getting out of bed. He made the bed, dressed, and took his pills. "What you ...
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Grieving 1

by luke
5 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Fable
There is a bath before me. A deep, metal beast with carved feet. I've just run it. I am back home, at my dad's place. Mum died yesterday. I travelled all night to get back here, a three hundred mile t...
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3

Swimmer and Jellyfish

by luke
4 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Fantasy, Romance, Fable
I tread water. I'm nowhere. I imagine the water I displace causing an effect somewhere else. Perhaps a ripple on a beach never before set foot on. Or a wave contributing to erode a granite face on an ...
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Grieving 2

by luke
3 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Fable
Anal is what she always called me. For keeping a ‘space blanket' in the car. You know the things, silver looking that they give to marathon runners. ‘You won't need that thing' she'd say. ...
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A Poem - Fall Expectations - revised

by starcitywriter
3 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Fable, Poem
Finnally remembered my password to logon on!With leaf rake in handI set out to the yardTo gather the leavesThat had blown from afar..A wind sent leaves swirlingUntamed by my effortMoments of ...
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6

clock

by lianne
3 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Humour, Fable
The river had hardened. The 12 o clock sun had sent across a heat wave swallowing the whole expanse of the road, and what was left of it but the white dashes of stitching clothing the earth. I had lai...
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Loss of Youth Chapter 2

by calebdc1
2 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Fable
The morning of the trip was just like any other. George and Margarette woke up at 6:30, ate quietly, took their vitamins and medicines, dressed. The only difference was the silence. It was cold outsid...
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8

The Devoted Widow

by Ambrose Bierce
7 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Humour, Fable
    A widow weeping on her husband's grave was approached by an Engaging Gentleman who, in a respectful manner, assured her that he had long entertained for her the most tender feelings...
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9

The Lost Child

by infactitsme
6 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Romance
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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10

The Ingenious Patriot

by Ambrose Bierce
6 votes | Empty_star vote up | discuss | Humour, Fable
Having obtained an audience of the King an Ingenious Patriot pulled a paper from his pocket, saying:      "May it please your Majesty, I have here a formula for constructing ...
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