His apology was not the thing she'd expected when she checked her phone in the morning. With one eye she stared at th...

"What is this?" I ask, my voice becoming more and more hysterical with every word I say. "It's your life." Jordan say...

The words hovered beneath my glowing finger, power incarnate. I lifted the text, spinning it lazily in the air, befor...

She was walking down the sidewalk in the downtown area of Seattle when she noticed a pile of white blankets and other...

They would never stop. She used to love the sight of birds on a rooftop, electric wires, even clotheslines. She used...

Disappeared into the cityscape, hiding unintentionally, friend to only the birds, for they are the only ones who wi...

On the journey back from the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes began writing his memoirs. The book was sent to a tru...

The library was dark, lights shutting off behind me but I continued to thumb through the book. They had lamps on the ...

The Loch Ness Monster was on vacation. As was the case with most celebrities, Nessie wanted her privacy. This wasn't ...

My singing was awful. Didn't matter as the audience were drunk, I could see Lorna sticking her tongue down John's thr...

The lights dimmed. Mary-Rose, in her black-and-white jail-striped dress entered the stage from the left. My left, not...

She sang. Her beautiful voice rang out through the dense smoke in the room, pushing out into the ears, minds and hear...

On the top of a roof, in Australia, there was a chair carved from an Italian carpenter in the 18th century. It was a ...

sitting on the I see my family crumbling before my eyes. I have achieved my goal, revenge for what they have done to ...

I sat there every day waiting. But nothing ever happened. I hoped if I sat there long enough that she would come back...

My eight-year-old brother couldn't sleep. He had watched a scary movie, and its main character was invading his thoug...

We were sitting in the basement, Danny and me. Tv's on. Hockey game. Upstairs ma and pa is fighting again. Bills. Or ...

dear bobo, happy birthday! i am sorry i missed it, but i hummed the song for you this morning while we convoyed into ...

"It is here. Start digging." the large man pointed with his hat. "How do you know? What is this treasure?" "Dig, or...

"Grandpop's teeth didn't look like that." "How do you know?" "Because mom always said you got his teeth. Do your te...

A small flower Just a seed planted in the dark you were fed, to grow, to blossom. In the dark you grew, Spreading yo...

Sometimes, the best cure for loneliness is to actually be alone. Which is actually kind of hard to do, considering t...

There was originally only one photograph. Now there were two. Well, two halves. Incomplete. Roughly cut down the midd...

The ghosts of her past continued to haunt her. The parents she'd disappointed, the boy she'd left behind, even the t...

Lorenzo and his army waited outside the city gates, preparing to overthrow King Prime. "How are we going to get in?"...

"Lorenzo, no!" King Tremain howled, his eyes blazing with the flames of anger and betrayal. Lorenzo, a traitor to his...

Tremain's exhibit had been the talk of the New York press, but Lorenzo had resisted all invitations to attend until n...

The sheep were at pasture, but the shepherds were gone. They had made a deal with the wolves to let them have a porti...

"The sheep were at pasture," Daniel typed into his screen. Monica slinked up behind him, read the screen and mocked, ...

The sheep were at pasture. It was 0300 and the troops were restless. They wanted action, not this placid chewing of ...