They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, the grime and dirt on the old hardwood floor unsettling beneath their feet....

They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, their eyes reflecting the light like stars in the darkness. Not that anyone...

There was only a sliver of space between the floorboards and the door under the stairs. It wasn't even really a door....

Spinning. Spinning. Spinning. That is all she knows now. "You'll become dizzy soon," he whispers in her ear. She smi...

Four minutes away from the burn point, one of the telltales switched from green to red. Tears streamed from my eyes, ...

The room kept spinning for the delicate human. You could tell by the way it swayed in its place on the floor beneath ...

Prompt: Lola “Who’s for another?” it came out as one word. Jack knew it and hid the knowledge with busy bustle. He...

The moment she walked into the room, I knew I was in for a wild time. Dressed to the nines, head to toe in the most w...

Lola, she was a dancer... something about flowers in her hair or was it her underwear? He couldn't actually remember ...

The mail box never had anything I wanted so I went onto the next home. Usually I picked up a few interesting pieces f...

We sat on our toboggan at the top of the hill behind the house. It wasn't much of a sliding hill, but it was easy to ...

We made a little church of our own when we promised to marry. You asked me when I barely understood how to love you, ...

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...

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...

A Time to grow And a Time to grow old A Time to learn And a Time to teach A Time to receive And a Time to give A Time...

"Carry the wreath, Henry, your mother is waiting." Father's terse words spoken from the side of his mouth, muffled b...

The sun this morning grows short thick shadows from the cobblestones. A sweaty head against the curb, red hatching at...

She turns around, but he has vanished again. She weighs the pros and cons of speaking before opening her mouth. "I ca...

"So you're saying you didn't see Willie Mason leaving the store Friday night?" PI Dot Post eyed the man sitting in he...

I'm fine No really. Really really! I'm not being aggressive. NO, I'm NOT! I am NOT shouting. I'm perfectly Ok...

Green cover holds me. Oak Tree stands guard behind me. Sun warms me. Stream sings me to sleep. Sleep meets with Dream...

Her eyes were green. No, not just green. Emeralds, yet infinitely more precious. Like the sea, though far more deep a...

Green. Indubitably so. A vast expanse if it, spreading out to the horizon. Different shades breaking it up into secti...

In hindsight, the solution was obvious. It was the one time Watson had solved the case before I had. He teased me abo...

The idea that bad luck happens when a black cat crosses your path is completely ridiculous. Maybe if the creature tri...

I saw it then, I see it now but somehow the access or more the feeling of ownership yes the feeling of ownership over...