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...
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...
Maggie · Customs · A Cup of Tea
Maggie knew it was only a matter of time before she was caught. It was inevitable, as certain as the rising of the su...
"hello Maggie." Said mother I couldn't believe that she was trying to talk to me now. After all the things she put me...
"Just drink the tea, Maggie." Custom said. He had set up a beautiful table with scones and tea and all the fripperi...
I knew that my outfit was risky, the plunging black bra exposing large breasts and cleavage. White sheer dress with b...
"You don't like her, do you?" "I don't have to." He glanced at her, although kept his eyes on the road. "You ha...
We almost died on the way to Guayaquil. I think we would have been more worried if there hadn't been a near-accident....
Chocolate lab · Haggard old woman · Eating apple pie
She made pie again. She never lets me have any, but this time she made one huge mistake: placing the pie on the windo...
He'd sat patiently on the threshold of the kitchen all afternoon. She'd dropped countless morsels of crust, of walnut...
"And when I get older, I'm going to be a fairy!" little Leslie exclaimed. On their second playdate, she and her new p...
I danced in the circle. Just me, my friend Jeanine, and a fairy. That's right, a fairy. People who study this would c...
They danced in a circle by the shores off the lake, laughing as they held each other. Their shifts, made of white sam...
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...
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...
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...
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...