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...
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...
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...
Private Morlane · Rooster · Let the regiment sleep
Hero at Midnight No one could remember who among them gave him the name Rooster; probably someone long gone by this ...
Private Morlane glanced at the watch that he'd taken off and left on the small table by his cot, rubbing his sleep-we...
Morlane hung his head. At times like these, his emotions were torments of conflict. He was grateful, yes; but he was ...
The dapper man picked up a penny.
A dapper man picked up a penny. He tossed it the air, but it fell. He never caught it. A spankled girl kicked up her ...
The woman watched Martin run into the snow. She could see him for couple of meters, but the lost him in the snow. Thr...
The stories rarely stop when the party does. He was not tall, or lean, but he was fashionable. He had the bushiest ...
I'm in love with a robot.
I'm in love with a robot. I know, I know, that sounds strange. But I am. It's name, or at least the name I gave it, i...
I am in love with a coffee machine. A robot that makes coffee. I am giddy about it my mornings are filled with percol...
Golden skin glowed in the afternoon sun, revealing a fine tracery of pale blue at the inside of the wrist. Lips, lus...
My feet ached, but it was well worth it.
In the scheme of things, it wasn't a permanent state I was after. Just long enough to get on stage, dance for two min...
My hands and feet ache, but it was well worth it. We are nearly there, a couple more hours. Georgie is starving and I...
My feet ached, but it was well worth it. This is what I said when I completed that trek. The endless days and nights,...
"What's that, Daddy?" James hid a smile behind his hand and answered, "That's a telephone, sweetie. You put money in...
It's ringing. Ringing. Ringing. Ringing. STOP it from ringing! Karla never wanted to hear his voice again. Never wan...
A dry, sandy summer like this one. I had met him just a mile down, by the Shell gas station, his cowboy boots kicking...
While me and my friend were packing, I thought of what we will do during the holiday we have away from school or stre...
I was scared. I could see another perspective of myself. Did I want this to happen, no, but did it happen for a reaso...
I lay there, floating. On the outside, at least. On the inside, I walked quietly down a dark hallway towards a bright...
Sister · Boyfriend · Orchestrate the split
"You know why girls suddenly change their hairstyles don't you?" He leered over my sister with that gap-toothed smug-...
There was a little girl who loved a boy. It was her first time with a crush on a boy. It was her first time with love...
The first time I saw Tommy, I knew he was a total douche. I don't allow my sister to date douches; shit — no brother ...