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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 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...

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...

Once upon a time there was a bug who wanted to live on my finger. I called the little fella over and asked him to sta...

It was a swarm. They were trying to get in. Surrounding the house. I was running frantically throughout the house, ma...

He didn't know what to say. No one did. It had never landed on anyone's finger before. The fabled winged bug, unlike ...

Words were labels that he had never paticularly enjoyed. Words were lazy, letting you lapse into not thinking about t...

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...

"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, 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 wind whistled around me, caressing me like i was its lover. Its icy touch leaving trails of fire all over my skin...

i jumped off the bridge and hit the water. OK, so i didn't judge the height of the bridge or he depth of the water, b...

You could use a little direction, said Junie to Sam. They were sitting cross-legged in the wood chips on the playgr...

What happens when life finally becomes too much to bear? He thought about it a great deal - but was unable to put his...

Erring on the side of caution I took two of the smaller ones. Just like breakfast, or a night on the town. My body wa...

There was a girl that I used to work with at the Goodwill who had eyes that were far too close together. Her body was...