I slept inside the dream I didn't spin from yarn this time inside my dream i didn't spin another lie within the tale ...

Sasha stretched as she woke, the cold early morning air stinging her skin. Looking around, it took a moment to figur...

When I woke up this morning, I knew it was going to be a good day. No groggy moans coming from my body as usual. A ...

Kandace made me kneel, which was hard to do since my hands were tied behind my back, and jerked the burlap sack off m...

It is surprising how much three tiny candles can illuminate an entire temple. When I walked in through the main hall...

The day after tomorrow, this will be all over. The waiting, the anxiety, the impatience will end. I have paced my roo...

Martin Adams began to type. He wasn't sure what to say; a fact that the repeated DELETES and EDITS made clear. Love l...

The day after tomorrow, this will all be over. End of the world according to the Mayan predictions. It didn't seem wo...

One scoop chocolate, one scoop... The ice cream scoop clatters on the counter top, empty. I stare at the perfectly ro...

"One scoop chocolate, one scoop..." the girl giggled as she plopped the ice cream into the bowl. "Two scoops chocolat...

One scoop chocolate, one scoop strawberry. One scoop soil, one scoop blood. One scoop of fear, one scoop of daring. O...

It was dark inside. I toggled the switch, and nothing happened. Shit. Thunder rolled and I sighed. Power outage. ...

The lamp wouldn't turn on. I was going to have to help deliver a baby in pitch darkness. With the elevator stuck betw...

The lamp wouldn't turn on. "Shit," Mel muttered. "Jerry!" Of course, he wouldn't come. He was in the tiny bathr...

It's here somewhere. How did we lose it in the first place? I don't dare say it out loud, because they'll blame me....

There was nothing like getting the supplies in every month with the boys to lift everyone's spirits. Goodies, magazi...

Boxes upon boxes upon boxes upon boxes. Buried beneath more boxes and found deep below even more boxes. We've built o...

"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...

Within sight. A new future within sight. Fresh hope, fresh starts. Leaving behind everything we know and everything...

Capriciously, I repudiated the sky and all its lighting and thunder, snow and rain, and changing colors. The paradig...

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...

On the top of a roof, in Australia, there was a chair carved from an Italian carpenter in the 18th century. It was a ...

sitting on the I see my family crumbling before my eyes. I have achieved my goal, revenge for what they have done to ...

I sat there every day waiting. But nothing ever happened. I hoped if I sat there long enough that she would come back...