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...

"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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Confusion. That's what I am currently experiencing. I used to believe that I was a self-assured and secure person, bu...

Sex wasn't always the first thing on Mandy's mind but it was today. The long zip at the front of the dress was perfec...

We are made of fluff and light. We are made for a continuing struggle to come together in our floating. When I fell...

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...

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....

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 ...

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...