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The Woman Who Got Out: Murder Mission
"AVAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!" Ava is a 17-year old who recently found out she was pregnant. Her mother had heard and wanted to ask who it belonged to, and how this happened.
By Rebeca Feier5 years ago in Criminal
The Chef's Secret
It’s 5am. I roll out from my steel bunkbed and straight into the kitchen. I pour the grey oats into a bucket-like saucepan, followed by pints of sickly milk, watching as it sank into the stew like an english marsh. I closed my eyes. I felt the resistance of the gruel as I pushed the wooden spoon through it in slow circles, my mind’s eye picturing it as being some sort of sweet potato and butternut squash soup with just hints of coriander and wafts of tabasco. Every morning, I take these few minutes of peace to just stand here and dream of my life before, outside these prison walls. The money, the fame, the food… Was it better to have it all, however briefly, than to have never had it at all?
By Bibi Lucille5 years ago in Criminal
Take the Fall
“Tom, your toast is burning” The smell had wafted into the living room, where Jared was sprawled on the couch. Hearing his brother’s warning from the stairs, Tom dashed to the kitchen.
By Charlotte5 years ago in Criminal
My grandmother's secrete
I stare at the payment only feeling shock or maybe even anger at myself. "I thought we paid it," I said my eyes burned with the threat of tears.
By Alex jones5 years ago in Criminal
The Lollipop
On my 14th birthday, my dad took me to the Bisbee State Bank to set me up with my very first savings account. I had unexpectedly inherited $20,000 from my Great Aunt Elspeth. I had begged to take the family on a trip to Australia with it or to throw a huge luau for my entire high school. But, of course, my parents would hear nothing of it. To them it was a truth universally acknowledged that a teenage girl in possession of a good fortune - and $20,000 was absolutely a good fortune -- must be in want of a savings account. So while most girls my age were celebrating their birthdays with slumber parties or trips to the beach, here we were in line at our small town’s two-teller bank.
By Bea Mary5 years ago in Criminal
About Face
Hannah was the only thing that shone bright on that overcast morning. In fact, she was the highlight of any type of day. Her hazel eyes glittered, her brown hair glistened, and her smile radiated exuberance, curiosity, and innocence. At two, she had already charmed the entire neighborhood and by four—her age that day—the parents at her pre-K school often marveled at not just her beauty, but her innate kindness. Their remarks always made me smile with maternal pride, though I sometimes felt slighted on behalf of Sydney who, while perhaps more guarded and slightly tomboyish, was equally good-natured and incredibly bright, but did not generate the same praise as her younger sister.
By Katherine Silvey Bates5 years ago in Criminal
The Freak Accident
I had just left the office to pick up Simon's lunch order from the café in the town canter. He has a standing order there of a ham and cheese toastie, a croissant with jam and cream, black coffee with room for milk, 4 shortbread biscuits and a bottle of water to wash it all down with, for me to collect by 13:15, 6 days a week. The café was happy to have the business I'm sure, as it's always empty when I walk in to pick up the basket they insist on putting his order in, but I have never questioned why; and Simon always gives me a £50 note to tip them with whenever I go. He's rich enough too.
By Jess Bennett5 years ago in Criminal
The Argument
"Are you serious? You're kidding me right now!" He said in an angry voice. "I told you not to go that far, and look at you, you're already in the thick of it! Now you've brought death to yourself, and hopefully not to the rest of us! Idiot!"
By Gabriel Mohr5 years ago in Criminal
A 'Little Black Book'
Day 1 The year 2020, had been a very trying year for most in these United States.. but, for Malcolm.. unbeknownst to everyone else in his small community.. the year 2020 had been… let’s just say, “quite giving”, in the strangest of ways.
By Muhammad Hakim II5 years ago in Criminal
Today
The day started as every other day. She woke up, too sweaty to even breath. Her skin shining under the morning sun that was almost inside the tiny Chicago apartment. Her fingers brushed gently the flower that was sitting patiently next to the window. Next to it was an old black notebook. The black cover was teared on many places. The pages half ripped inside. The only thing that was left from her past. The only evidence that somewhere before, years and years she existed. Maybe under a different name, working a different job, dating different guy, but she did exist. Somewhere between times maybe. The warm water hugged her tiny body.
By Anna Ross5 years ago in Criminal
A little black book
“Wake up sleeping beauty!” In his life, Frank had been called many things, but beauty was not one of them. Growing up had been hard, as it had been for a lot of kids from his neighborhood. His father had left shortly after his birth, and his mother had become bitter and angry at being strapped with a young child. She often told Frank that being his mother was the worst thing that could have happened to her. Frank was very certain that being her son was actually worse, so he escaped home when he was 15.
By Sarah Elizabeth Cunningham5 years ago in Criminal
The Hack of a New Generation
Inside a diner people are casually having a nice meal and it’s the usual hustle and bustle of a lunch rush. A young woman in a dress is talking to someone on the phone and eyes a young handsome man, Joseph in a blue suit. A shot is fired, and the man sitting next to Joseph falls into his burger dead.
By Elizabeth Findley5 years ago in Criminal