Turtle · Zeno · Go the distance
What does it mean to go the distance? Does it mean to beat everyone else or to beat yourself? When you grow up, paren...
Now, supposedly, if I start out a hundred meters ahead of Achilles, and Achilles is travelling five times faster than...
"His thoughts are too scattered, just give him a moment to collect." This advice within the high pitched laugh of a w...
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...
Fault.
It wasn't my fault. It couldn't have been. She was dead when I got there. I know my fingerprints were on the gun. It...
"This is your fault," his wife said to him. If you would just put your mother in her place I wouldn't have to and we ...
Fault. Such a familiar word. Im not sure what it means and what it looks like but i can feel it. I feel it for a lo...
An abandoned child · An abusive father · Escape the family – alive
"Welcome back! Our next contestants are the seven year old Billy and his abusive father Jim, from Fall River, Texas. ...
He heaved a sigh as he walked down the hallway. The revolver hung heavy in his hand. He had no idea what model or bra...
He was coming. Footsteps down the hall. And, of course, he was alone. Nobody else inhabitated this old house - his...
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...
Sam · Ambulance Driver · Hitch a ride
"Come on," Ricardo yelled, growing more frustrated by the second. "That guy is still trailing us. Step on it!" "I don...
I was down. The car hit me straight on. I thought I was on vacation for the week but obviously the ambulance driver t...
All Sam had wanted was a ride. He's grown up in the Mid West, eaten his breakfast from cereal cartons plastered wi...
My friends are so annoying they threw fake snow all over me as my perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe came out of th...
Her joints screamed as the winter chill ran through her veins and iced her skin. It was so cold out and this blizzard...
Heating nothing as I refrigerate. Eating nothing as my body preserves. We eat and are ultimately eaten. Preheated,...
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...
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...
It was an early morning. Anna was going for a morning run around her block. She was always found doing something wort...
The young man stared down at the small book, his middle and index fingers pressed down to keep the pages from turning...
I looked at the passport, and then back up at the woman standing in front of me. "Are you serious?" I asked, a puzzl...