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 ...

Your foundation was laid a long time ago. You said it was always the same, just before. His voice offering up your na...

Monica Albott had never been beautiful. Sure, she had been cute, pretty even, but never beautiful. She said this ove...

Creeping up again. That is what I thought as as I woke up in my nice but dull apartment. The life I had made for myse...

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...

The kids huddled around the tiny bundt cake, sipping juice from their plastic cups. A lone candle burned at the cen...

We have been in the bunker for weeks now sharing a room with me and my five brothers. Its hard to imagine our life be...

If I were a scientist I would invent a drug, which could bring me back to all of the feelings I was able to experienc...

Fancy dress at Tom's party was optional, but all the children wore something wacky. First prize was for the circus ri...

Dear Mom, Do you remember this picture? I do. I remember a lot about those days, when we were a family. Yesterday, I ...

"What the hell kind of superhero costume is that?!" My dad was yelling so loud I could hear him from my room. When th...

I walked along the flat stones that made up the busy road and let the bustling crowds swallow me whole. My heart poun...

Walking towards the light, the people wondered if they would be provided clothes or would they have to keep walking i...

Gavin was gloating. "Enjoy your final moments, Kevin ... maybe use them to wonder how I found you. Good-bye ..." He ...

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...

Absent. The perfect word to describe the situation. Paul and Maria Strickland sat at their kitchen table eating brea...

The episodes were getting more frequent. I'd forget where I was. Friends looking at me strangely as I carried on conv...

He was absent. Again. The kid would only show up on test days - on which he performed well enough. But that wasn't th...

There's somebody standing in the corner of my room. Well, "standing" may be the wrong word. There's someone IN the c...

He likes his own room, but he likes mine more. He's five. Half the time, if he had his way he would climb back insi...

There's somebody standing in the corner of my room. That's what she told me most days and as normal, I ignored her. I...

about 6 years ago, at the time I firstly thought about study in UK. So I prepare the ielts in Shanghai. When I finish...

He opened the letter from his cousin, reluctantly breaking open the blue air-mail envelope. Who uses old-fashioned sn...

The rain pounded on his jacket and head like furious warriors attempting to break the city's gates. His paced quick...