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 ...
You can count me out.
"Oh, do come for dinner!" she purred. "Is there anything you don't eat?" "Well ... quite a few things," he said. "I h...
You can count me out. You can count me out. How many times do I have to say it? Count me out of your scheme. I have...
You can count me out, I said. I am not doing it. No. I left this years ago. I have a life now, I told them. No more o...
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...
Nostalgia. Oh, how I love the feeling. Staring across the dim room at my parent's house is where it began. Noticing...
0900 hrs. Scott was seen leaving his fiance's home by a neighbour who looked up as he slammed the door hard and swore...
The following is excerpted from IrishAbroad circa 2000: Flashback .Sunday morning 11am...Woke up to the sound of me o...
Turtle · Zeno · Go the distance
What does it mean to go the distance? Does it mean to beat everyone else or to beat yourself? When you grow up, paren...
Now, supposedly, if I start out a hundred meters ahead of Achilles, and Achilles is travelling five times faster than...
"His thoughts are too scattered, just give him a moment to collect." This advice within the high pitched laugh of a w...
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...
He left me hanging.
“Pob lwc.” the elder of Saint Joseph’s had wished me, after his strange warning. I presumed he meant for my first Mas...
”Beware the Bwgan Fawr.” the old Vicar sighed. “Every chapel has to have its ‘Ysbryd capel’…” “Its chapel ghost?” th...
The disco ball was turning.
I was dancing. The disco ball was turning. It was Monica's sweet 16 and I got invited. But unfortunately, I regrette...
The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...
The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...
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...