The bully grabbed me and Billy by the collar. He started dragging us in the direction of what looked like a soccer go...
It seemed a good idea to tell the kids to hide behind the bars when the boy went berserk. Glue sniffing was the first...
Josh ground his teeth in frustration. The other kids on the playground were really getting to be a nuisance. He'd he...
He ran into the room, his heart pounding, and his clothes soaking wet.
He ran into the room, his heart pounding and his clothes soaking wet. Just earlier that day, he headed out for the d...
Immediately he ripped his dresser draw open. Rummaging through the clothes all neatly packed. Foot steps are heard fr...
"Damnit Christine, god damnit, call 911!" I shouted, dropping my sisters limp body on the bed. There was froth aroun...
Trudging through the snow, I saw something move on the path ahead of me. It was ... a cat! A white cat. I could ba...
They laughed at the little thing as it squirmed The dark water so close but so far away now in their minds The way th...
I have a cat. Look at my cat. This is my cat. I have a cat. The cat likes it when I hold it. The cat likes to put i...
The maple leaves will change and fall with a certain grace – November will begin.
#hashtag condo livin. Last year i bought a tiny orange tree to spruce up my tiny patio. #condolife. Over the many m...
The colors bleed into brown, red to rust, green to yellow. The maple leaves will change and fall with a certain grac...
then the cold A wet cold that moves through you that clings to your insides A cold that whispers soft and true _You ...
Shape.
Shape is a thing that comes to you, after you have grown. Breasts. Waist. Arms. Butt. It's a struggle between ...
The old woman was lying on the park bench underneath layers of musty old coats, pink v-sweaters (four) and thermal u...
The large shape of the medical building loomed on the horizon. Vic and I were survivors of a plague tring to get a va...
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...
Twist.
"And now, a nice, juicy twist. That's it. Keep twisting. One final push! Aaaaand release. Other side, now. Raise your...
Twist. Twist. Twist. The doorknob wouldn't turn. The door wouldn't open. And then Liz would find out why Sebastian wa...
The first day of school and he was already in a fight. Mark sighed as the three seventh graders approached him from t...
I always imagined that I'd feel nothing. Instead, I feel everything. Every paper cut, every broken heart, everything...
Heather had never found her talent. The smallest amount of knitting made her arms feel like they'd fall from her sho...
Standing on the edge, my mind was white. No; it was clear. Nothing I had experienced in my 18 years was going through...
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...
Light.
Face down on the cold floor of the cathedral, Brother Fidelis whispered his prayers. Though his lips brushed the dust...
Light. Fuck light, right? Right. Light just shows what I don't want to share, it takes away my CHOICE. Isn't that ...
Light as a feather. Light on the eyes. Light flashing into tear streaming eyes. Light in my arms, My long-lost love...