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Jack Gardner

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Girl's Girl

This wasn’t like her, Molly kept reminding herself. It wasn’t bad, of course, plenty of girls did stuff like this, but she wasn’t one of those girls. Not that there was anything wrong with that, but she wasn’t one of those girls. Until her friends and some very persuasive magazines argued it was the only cure for heartbreak. She looked at herself in the mirror, trying to be steel. It was just a hookup it was empowering. Her reflection showed a sexy and mysterious visage, hair freshly dyed a deep scarlet that matched her metallic red eyeshado...

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Such a Doll

Weekly Contest #376

“It’s so creepy!” Natalie whined doing her best to shield her ever-wide brown eyes from me. “We should throw it out,” Riley replied, “They’ll never notice.” It had been some weeks since the girls made their usual assault of me. They couldn’t be blamed, in all honesty. When I was their age I too was terrified of my grandparents strange knick-knacks, but even they had nothing on the Hendersons. The family room was sort of my stomping ground and high on each wall was a functioning cuckoo clock, though none of them got the time exactly right. If...

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Fluff, Sweat, and Tears

It was the drums. The steady pounding beat, one-two, one-two, one-two, a rhythm that nestled itself into Captain’s Baby’s head between all the fluff and stitching. His fingerless paws shook when he looked down at them, the once sandstone fur smeared with dirt and grime. He thought it was his heart, but the old war horse didn’t have one. The armies of the Teddy Bear Union were pinned down behind a pile of clothes stacked like a crescent-shaped ridge. Their barricade had only one entrypoint, a small gap bin between the clothes and a bookcase....

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