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 ...

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....

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...

The tigers snarled at each other as they fought over the prize. Eyes narrowed, they watched for the slightest hesitat...

They were the best of friends, but the worst of enemies. My husband and his brother would become like tigers fighting...

He watched from a distance, hidden behind a bush. The two tigers snarled at each other, circling around, judging each...

It was a gloomy day in the middle of no where all i could see was piles upon piles of hay, it felt late and i ont kno...

The fields were parched. There was no water. Where was the rain, she wondered as she stared across the cracked land...

I'll miss the way the breeze would blow hair into his eyes, and the way I would brush it away, asking him when he was...

The heart beating, dazzling country Kenya is the home of millions of people all formed into one loving family. To som...

It was a random trip, picked quite literally with a dart to a map. Jon would be going to Kenya. He'd never been outsi...

Kenya was the name of my doppelganger. I thought it a strange name, thought he might call himself Jim or John, both m...

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...

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...