He led me to the spot and I gasped. "Alex...did you seriously build this?" "For us." He took my hand and I blushed so...

As I gazed across the lake at the empty gazebo, I realized I wanted to be there. To stand in the center, surrounded b...

The dock at his grandfather's pond always reminded him of Imladris, the land known as Rivendell in Tolkien's The Hobb...

He stood outside the castle, looking in. That little fence was all that separated him from the world of imagination....

Billy was steadfastly unimpressed. "Can we go home now?" he asked. "But, Billy, don't you want to see the top of th...

My throat ached from a barrage of overpriced, fried abuse. My voice was hoarse, having spent most of the day screamin...

The woolly mammoth lined up for the next event in the prehistoric Winter Olympics: the 400 meter speed skating compet...

"Ice Snakes! I will not let you beat me into the Olympics!" Woolly Mammoth shouted as he watched the Ice Snakes perfo...

From the day the museum opened, the mammoth was the first thing every visitor saw. How could they miss it? It towered...

I was twelve years old when I first sat behind the wheel. I was very nervous to drive but as I was very much into car...

"Don't you realize you can make a cake WITHOUT any the products of my femininity?" asked the chicken. She fluffed he...

I have anxiety issues okay? I swear every time I come here its the same goddamn thing. All I need is to walk, so I ap...

I shot my butler. He was a mole! I should have known. I'm trained to tell whether someone is lying or not. I'm a secr...

I shot my butler. I never really wanted to though, He was a kind man. It was a week ago, and since then I've been a...

"I shot my butler." I threw the manuscript across the room. Grabbed a scotch. No. Wait. Wanted a scotch, grabbed a bo...

The year was 1986 and she was a high school softball star. So young and full of potential. She was beautiful. She had...

The year was 1986 and I was 10 years old living in south Louisiana. My family had been living in Louisiana for gener...

The year was 1986. My home, a typical home in Suburbia, USA. My life, a typical American teenager, filled with angst ...

Where the sun sets, and the wind blows, two girls run across the ocean, having fun with each other. The two girls liv...

You know how people always use that metaphor of how an iceberg shows a small portion of the story, but the ice travel...

If humans are mostly water, what happens when you remove it? This was the idle yet macabre thought that raced throu...

I am really nervous. It's there. Looming. And I feel like if I move it will know, and everything around me will crumb...

100 feet away I watched the smugglers struggle to get over the jagged stones, collapse onto the wet sand, expel salt ...

100 feet away Mulder knew the Sasquatch was waiting. This was it, the moment of truth. Jonas, the new field agent c...

Beatirix shuddered as a cold wind whipped across the stage, and she clasped her hat tightly to her head. Stage fright...

"Hello?" There was nothing on the other end of the line but silence. "Hey, can you here me? Is anyone there?" Martin ...

me and my sister have always been fighting. scince the day we could walk we always fought untill now. we were walking...

"What the hell happened here?" The man in the blue button up military coat came up to the wreck. He wore a hat on his...

I saw the thing. It was preserved in the glass case, the only one of its kind. So faithfully had the curators touched...

"Well shit, that didn't work," the conductor said. He walked around the wreckage, pulling out passengers. Women, mos...