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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...