She opened the envelope and screamed.
She opened the envelope and screamed. "I got in!" she told her parents, hopping excitedly as she held out the accepta...
She opened the envelope and screamed. This was not the day to be squeamish. This was the day her daughter would be ...
She opened the envelope and screamed. She could not believe him, she simply could not believe that he was still persu...
"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...
She could tell I was faking it.
Savouring words was a joy to him. Illiterate for many years; he learnt to read and write late in life. His appreciati...
She could tell I was faking it. My smile felt wrong, though no one else knew. She knew. A glance at the priest standi...
She could tell I was faking it. They all could. They'd have to have known I wasn't "fine". I mean, come on. It's not ...
I lost my grip on the wheel.
It was late, one winter night. I was not accustomed to being awake at this hour. My car didn't handle the cold well, ...
I lost my grip on the wheel. It had happened before, but it wasn't nearly as embarrassing as now. I had just left P.E...
Driving along a road at night, rain pelting down, tall trees waving low branches across the sky, no moon, no road lig...
Waves.
She laid there for an hour before moving. The waves had brought her here, and deigned not to take her away again. She...
Waves. Thats all I saw. Waves, waves, waves. Just little curves in the ocean, that broke down and collapsed into them...
The water crashes onto our feet. His hand lets go of mine as he turns away from me. He tells me he can't let me do th...
Portraits
My life has always been a mess. First, my parents get into a big fight and are now divorced. Then I had no choice but...
It was his job to paint portraits of people. They'd give him huge sums to paint them. Just look in the mirror, idiots...
Whoever said a picture was worth a thousand words had never met Frank. The man had never met a camera he didn't lik...
The elephant dragged its feet.
Along a windig path we went up to find the ancient temle which no one has seen in thousands of years. I am archeologi...
Boom!! I heard the the elephant fall on the floor it felt like there was a earthquake. There where people screaming a...
The elephant dragged its feet. Since they were made of rubber, this made the task all the more difficult, as she pull...
She didn't look at him.
She didn't look at him she couldn't tell him. She couldn't even tell her family. What would they say? What would they...
She didn't look at him; she looked past him, half closing her eyes as if basking in the sunlight. She was really tryi...
She didn't look at him. She couldn't look at him. What would he think? she wondered as she sipped her wine and kept h...
Cindy yawned and stretched as she started her day. It was time to walk her pet octopus. She pulled Ollie out of his...
This is the short story about the journey of three friends from plumstead to central london at 23/02/2015. Friend ...
Penelope loved the fountain, loved the way the water sprayed, cooling her in the hot sun, making her clothes cling as...
He wandered a lot. Not usually while he was home, but when the time presented itself and he was in a new location bef...
"Let's go for a walk," I said. "I have eaten the salami and now I have strength and you girls need to find sex partne...
If I had a box full of pounds from every time someone said if I had a pound for every time It would probably have lik...