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...
When Martin woke up, he was still in the back of the van. He didn't know, how long he was unconscious. He couldn't se...
Shots were fired all around town. Poor innocent lives we're taken in a matter of seconds. They were taking over... ev...
The snow had hardened overnight and was crisp now. It wasn't what you would call a cold day and Fran had left her jac...
She'd have preferred the electric chair.
I couldn't move. My legs felt like jelly and I had to sit. Everything in the hospital seemed to go blurry. "Are you o...
She'd have preferred the electric chair, but he wouldn't have it. "Think about how much easier it would be on everyon...
"She'd have preferred the electric chair," Melanie said. A half grin sat on her lips as she stirred the crinkle fry ...
He sighed as he read: "This image or video is currently unavailable." "Thank you, Flickr," the man said to himself. ...
All he needed was one picture. That was it. Just one. Too bad for him it was a specific picture. But the Internet alw...
I was walking to grandma's when I spotted the yellow box with a question mark on it. I liked it so much that I leaned...
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...
There's no way that's possible! But this horse-like creature, it clearly looks like what could be described as a uni...
One summer, I went to the Zoo with my family. Me, my husband and daughter all decided to go out of town for a week fo...
"Of course, no one can make a unicorn," Pareth said, in that tone of voice he used when lecturing his students, "but ...
She cradled the faun's head.
Feeling like a fool, alone but still wondering how she looked, how she looked to other people. She should just allow ...
She cradled the faun's head and he went to sleep. I had read the final line of the bedtime story about a thousand ti...
She cradled the faun's head. She listened to its soft breath, listened to its complaint, listened its petition. But...
It approached.
She could feel the terror drenching and cloaking itself around her. Don't be afraid, it whispered. You've known for y...
It came at me. At a speed of lightning. I couldn't think. Speak, or even hear correctly. The crowbar was flung direct...
Looking out my thirteenth floor office window, I marveled at how dark, gritty and simply dirty the air looked. It wa...
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 ...