It was supposed to be a nice relaxing drive. We were going to my mother's house for Christmas, the presents all stack...
The curtains were the safety. I could never sleep unless the curtains were draped and folded over each other, obscur...
The car stalled. The roads were half washed out and the rain pounded like a blacksmith's hammer on the hood. The stor...
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...
Your 8 year old Brother · Dracula · Mixtape
My eight-year-old brother couldn't sleep. He had watched a scary movie, and its main character was invading his thoug...
We were sitting in the basement, Danny and me. Tv's on. Hockey game. Upstairs ma and pa is fighting again. Bills. Or ...
dear bobo, happy birthday! i am sorry i missed it, but i hummed the song for you this morning while we convoyed into ...
"HELP" "There's no hope," the monotone sound of Sarah's voice echoing throughout the silent forest. I could not see ...
the birds on the telephone line have heard me talking the birds on the power line have felt me typing one bird two bi...
The raven sat and contemplated the traveler beneath the moon's harsh gaze. She struggled onwards, leaning heavily on ...
The water was clear.
The water was clear but her conscience was not. Carla gazed into the crystal goblet's depths, the sparkling liquid r...
The water was clear, so I stared at it, looking at my reflection. I was ugly, there were no two ways about. She had b...
The water was clear and not a cloud was in the sky. Melody lay in the tall weeds near the lake under a weeping willow...
I lost my grip on the wheel.
It was late, one winter night. I was not accustomed to being awake at this hour. My car didn't handle the cold well, ...
I lost my grip on the wheel. It had happened before, but it wasn't nearly as embarrassing as now. I had just left P.E...
Driving along a road at night, rain pelting down, tall trees waving low branches across the sky, no moon, no road lig...
all alone. all alone forever. all by myself. I am the last left of my family. the last splotch of colour in the green...
Everyone's a joker, until the joke's on them, thought the fish. Swimming in the fluorescent green waters was hell on ...
"It's called a goldfish." "Goldfish? Not much of a name." "That's right. Wasn't much of a fish, either. They used t...
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...
The lamp wouldn't turn on.
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...
Da dum de dum, normal day- HOLY SH*T I'M FLOATING. WHAT THE HECK. I'M FLOATING. WAIT A MINUTE HOLD IT IS THAT A PINEA...
She was lost in a land, not exactly a physical one. She was surrounded by things that made her happy. She was floatin...
Alarm clocks, women, toys and books; Bananas, high-heels, dirty looks. The clocks get bigger as they grow, For Cleopa...