The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower coolly. Lord Howard stood behind him, rigid, hands neatly behind his ba...

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower smoothly. "Good good," he said in his nasally voice. Rubbing his hands to...

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower cooly. "Were my instructions not clear," he asked in the calm manner so ...

I stood on the old wooden bed I always slept in. There was always a window up high and I would always look up to it a...

Three Chances. Two Donors. One Hope. December 4th. Today is the third anniversary of your first bone marrow transp...

Rudolph ran as fast as his four legs would carry him. He had run out of fairy dust over a remote forest, and unfortun...

They were trapped for seven days. Faced with a myriad of uncertainties, this much Antonius knew to be true. The pangs...

They were trapped for seven days. Aleena tried to hold back the tears as it had been seven days since she had seen th...

They were trapped for seven days. And all he could think about was how stupid and incompetent everyone was. Oh, he c...

Half naked and desperate, the child climbed the thin bars of the door, her cage, staring at the world outside. Her ri...

It was difficult getting to people to understand that actually you wanted to be in the cage. That the cage was the sa...

The first few days she hadn't noticed the bars. She'd noticed very little about her surroundings other than that they...

Sitting at a desk with pen in hand. "It's us against the world." "Watch out, America." The circle of faces tight...

I was an optimist. I thought that I, like Hemingway, could weave my influence between countries, live in the welcomin...

He couldn't see through the rain. The rain covered everything in sight, like a thick veil of mosquito netting had bee...

As the walked along a long fenced pathway, she told Martin, that she was bringing him to a refugee camp, and that she...

She pulled her head back from the binoculars, a scowl on her face. The were all over the streets, and it was only a m...

The fat girl at Kentucky Fried Chicken touched my forehead with the palm of her hand. Her skin was oily and she had p...

The storm had blown over, but not before it had blown over his ship, along with all of his crew. The captain always w...

So close, yet so far. Matey the Pirate never understood the phrase until these last few days of his life. The woodp...

The waves were bigger than she'd ever seen before. They were not waves tonight. They were destructive bombs, pulveriz...

Thank God the image was blurred thought Johnston looking over his daughter's shoulder. She had accidentally found his...

I stepped into the bathroom, which was green. There was a tape player and it was playing Chinese gongs. There was a s...

Harold finally decided to turn his life around while he was standing in front of the elevator. Even though his meet...

Sal knew his time was running out, a runaway train heading straight for him but he had nowhere else to go. "So... wi...

Sal was in love. A part of her felt that she'd always been in love, and almost each time with a different man. But t...

Sal knew it was too late the minute the whistle blew. That train had been keeping time in Millersville for twenty yea...

He could not even translate it. It was what one might call a specific knowledge, the fact that he did not understand ...

£18,000. That is what the twisted gold wire bracelet was worth to me. Commonly known as a torc. Iron age. It was easy...

£18000. That's all it would take. But it was more than Charles had, that was certain. He gazed in wonder at that glos...