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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Splash

  

  By FishFingersAndCustard, Franklin, WI

  The moment before your fingers touch the wall, in that split second that makes the difference between first place and fourth, is the second that I live for. Wet fingers slip through the water, trying to reach the edge that will bring glory, or defeat. The water tries to hold me back, but it can’t ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Dear Diary, Make Me Thin

  

  By FishFingersAndCustard, Franklin, WI

  Dear Diary, Today I looked in the mirror, and almost fainted. I’d never noticed it before, but I have these large love handles sticking out under the sides of my sundress. When I examined it closer, they weren’t even small, they were huge rolls of slimy, icky fat. I don’t think I’ve ever ...
• Fiction > Romance
  Diamonds in the Rough

  

  By FishFingersAndCustard, Franklin, WI

  Being in love was an adventure. To Miika and Zeus, it was more than that. It was a way of life. For them, being in love was like eating dessert first, or like losing a penny and finding a quarter, or expecting rain and getting sunshine. Her muse, the handsome Zeus, was almost her perfect other h...