I remember when I was a kid. I sat on the edge of my father's car, waiting for him come home from his walks. I would ...
I remember the smell of wet snow on a blinding morning. Squinting through glare and steam. Battleship twigs wobble in...
The winter of 1970 in the Bay Area was not something I ever expected to experience- especially since I was born in 19...
Marvin · Melinda · Answer the phone
I am Luciana "Answer the phone" My boyfriend Marvin shouted across the room. My life was horrible. Being the boyfrien...
Marvin lunged towards the stand upon which sat an old, analog phone. He almost made it. Melinda tackled him from be...
He was lucky when he found that nickel in the bushes, that'll show up again later. But it wasn't luck that brought hi...
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...
Chicken · Road · Reach the other side
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...
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...
Water.
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 shot my butler.
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.
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 ...
If you ever pass this house on 23 silverdores street, your sight will be mesmerized. A red checkered pattern clock ha...
The border. He had. To find. The border. He'd made this trip a hundred times before and each time the damn thing move...
You know damn well the head is in the box. You know damn well how this movie will end. But her legs are across yours ...
Woolly Mammoth · Ice Snakes · The Olympics
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...