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Carrie has started taking Taekwondo-classes but is kicked to the floor again and again.
– everything is connected
Carrie has started taking Taekwondo-classes but is kicked to the floor again and again.
A story about how to welcome those broken dreams of ever becoming an artist.
Carrie finds an article about new quantum physics and the theory of ‘ghost universes’. Even though she knows it is no good, she begins to obsess about the idea that her dead friend, Lin, may be alive in such a ghost universe.
Are you meant not to be friends with some people, even though you feel you have a strange connection?
Sometimes we connect the strangest memories to people we have lost. That makes them no less beautiful.
What happens when you are waiting at the airport to meet an old friend after 16 years but is not sure you can forgive her for staying out of touch for so long?
Carrie becomes obsessed with finding out the fate of one Anna Lee Shepherd – a teenage survivor from a destructive Civil War raid.
Carrie has finally ditched both drugs and her violent boyfriend. Is it time to get rid of her gun, too?
Going cold turkey in a lonely motel room, trying to rid herself of cocaine addiction, Carrie writes a letter to the daughter she does not yet have.
It’s stupid to try to walk through the desert from Painted Rocks to Tucson with only half a bottle of water in your handbag. But Carrie is doing so anyway – or is she? [Vignette]
Carrie wavers about whether or not to break up with her violent boyfriend, Jeremy.
Ending up in Buenos Aires, Carrie befriends a Falklands War-veteran who turns out to have a dark side.
A story about the way we often say goodbye to past relationships.
In a Bolivian market, Carrie helps a lost little boy search for his mother, with some unexpected consequences.
Carrie meets Jacob from Israel who is slated to go to prison when he returns, for refusing military duty. It seems there is no way out. They try to find one anyway.
Meeting the perfect traveling companion is sometimes reason to leave as soon as you can.
Carrie has traveled all the way to Lima in Peru but has not escaped her grief. She wonders how to find the strength to go on.
Carrie’s friend, Nadine, tries to stop Carrie from traveling to South America with no plan to ever come back.
Dark clouds gather over life, as Lin struggles with depression. In a bid to make peace with the past Lin takes Carrie to see a haunted house.
What are the options to save your best friend from a broken home?
Lin offers to use her inheritance to buy Carrie a condo, so Carrie can get away from living with her mother in a cramped two-roomer. But can you say yes to such a gift from someone you only just met?
(This list also includes story parts or scenes if a story takes place over several days or longer.)
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