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...

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...

Gradually, Houdini slipped out of his handcuffs. He unshackled his legs and wriggled out of his straitjacket. He was ...

Slowly it built, piece by piece. The atoms of its essence compiling line after line, upwards and outwards, exploding ...

"Big wheels keep on turnin'..." Paul's hands beat on the steering wheel in time with Lynyrd Skynrd as he drove down t...

I stare at the row of perfect houses resting on the perfectly manicured lawns beneath a perfectly blue sky by perfect...

I found the ring on the bowling green. Slipped in my back pocket for later as I was in the middle of the tournament. ...

Set down the light set it down anywhere The pure clean of a random weeknight on the coach staring at the white ceili...

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. Aiming at the highway man was easy, pulling the trigger was the problem. I couldn...

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. “Your turn” she said, as my hands trembled in fear. Why was I here? Who was she? ...

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. I was going to show him. I was angry, no, furious. He cut me off! In this city, t...

2070. Last digits of the code. No matter what they did, I was not going to tell them the rest of it. My undercover me...

I liked Erica, but Daddy didn't. She did everything for him, like the man on the advert said she would, and it had me...

2070, by 2070 i want all the bad things to be gone. i want there to be a cure to all the bad things that affect our w...

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 ...

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...

"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...

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 ...