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What Is Your Name:
Status/Length: Finished/Short
Plot: Two lonely people, one deserted beach.
Exerp: I wanted to tell him that I had healed, but I did not. I wanted to tell him what he meant to me, but I could not.

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Messages:
Status/Length: Finished/Short
Plot: Two people leave very similar messages on each other's answering machines.
Exerp: Beep. Kali took a deep breath before she began to speak."I really should have called your cell phone to tell you this, but I was afraid that I'd chicken out, or you wouldn't let me try to explain. I really wanted you to hear this and I thought that this would be one way I could be sure you'd listen to this...

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The Day Zac Came To Jazzercize:
Status/Length: Finished/Short
Plot: When Zac's Girlfriend Invites him to her Jazzercise class, it has a disasterous outcome.
Exerp: "Why don't you just come with me?"I suggested.

"Huh?"

"Come to Jazzercise with me."

"I thought that was only for girls."

"Sometimes guys come."

"Cool."And that was it. I didn't realize that it meant he really intended on coming...

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Family Portrait:
Status/Length: Finished/Short
Plot: Zac's young daughter forces him to answer up to the lies he has been telling about his family.
Exerp: Zac laughed out loud. He'd forgotten what liars his brothers had been. Had that question been directed at him, he would have told them the truth. That he hated his brothers. Then the reporter would have laughed, assuming he was kidding...

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7-Eleven:
Status/Length: Finished/Short
Plot: Prequel to "The Day Zac Went to Jazzercise", this details Zac and Missy's disasterous first meeting.
I was attempting to hold the large bottles of Orange and Raspberry soda while grabbing a bag of Doritos off a shelf when the Orange soda bottle slipped out of my grasp.

My luck being what it is, of course the bottle crashed into a huge display of Diet Pepsi...

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The Chick From Milwaukee:
Status/Length: Finished/Short
Plot: Zac underestimates a girl he meets.
Exerp: Zac snickered."What is that skinny little girl supposed to protect us from? Zoe? Cause I think she's the only one in our family that girl could take out."

"You'd be surprised."Isaac smiled. Boy would Zac be surprised.

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Memories:
Status/Length: Finished/3 short chapters
Plot: One of my first hanfics about a young girl's memories of her best friend.....
Exerp: It's funny the things you remember, I remember when Ike had to shave his head because his brother poured glue on it. Or the time when we played house and Tay played our baby. He got bored, stole Zac out of his bassinet and put him in the crib as a replacement. Man did he get in trouble...