"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...
Nostalgia. Oh, how I love the feeling. Staring across the dim room at my parent's house is where it began. Noticing...
0900 hrs. Scott was seen leaving his fiance's home by a neighbour who looked up as he slammed the door hard and swore...
The following is excerpted from IrishAbroad circa 2000: Flashback .Sunday morning 11am...Woke up to the sound of me o...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...