Two men entered, wearing respiratory masks. They came over to the register and looked at Martin, who just looked back...
Officer Malone stopped at the doorway of the house. "Do you smell that?" she asked. The rest of the team paused as ...
He was always a weird kid.
Words were labels that he had never paticularly enjoyed. Words were lazy, letting you lapse into not thinking about t...
"No parking anytime" read the sign on the tall, black, iron gate. "Well, if I'm going to break the rules, I guess th...
There once was a house that no child or adult dared enter, the house was known to be haunted. Even though that the ho...
Joshua parked in front of the iron gate, irritated at this sign, just one of many from his absentee father. He was ne...
Gradually.
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...
The earthy smell of autumn leaves surrounded me and stimulated my senses. The crisp crunch of leaves was projected th...
Some mornings, when the sun rose just right, it was almost like nothing had happened. This was one of those mornings...
She ran off into the plants and tall grasses and let her body sway with the wind. She called it her meditation, the o...
2070.
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...
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,...
I step back and look. It seems complete. Ms. Johnson comes over and looks at it. She barely glances before saying, "...
He stared at his reflection in the water for a long moment. He studied his eyes (the same dark brown that they had al...
The world was so close to perfect, he hated having to point out the flaws to the designer. It was his least favorite ...
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...
Absent.
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...