One scoop chocolate, one scoop...
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...
Mallard Duck · BP · Heroism on a Ducky Scale
The oil had come months ago now. They had thought it would disappear. It had always done so before. But it had remai...
"Mallard duck," she said, just before she placed the binoculars back down on the car hood. "No doubt about it." This...
"Quack quack quack!" *Translation: OH NO! BP! "Quack quack quack quack." *Translation: I'll have to move to anothe...
Waves.
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...
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....
"I am slowly forgetting her here" Dante whispered to himself "I did this for her and I let myself be punished in her ...
Being punched in the face for the first time is always a shock. Even with the gloves, it still hurts, and that mouth...
We spent the last 36 hours in bed ticking off everything from the list, blindfold food tasting, leather fetish, schoo...
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...
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...
Annabelle Clarisse, was born blind but her disability never stopped her from visualising the world with her other sen...
I could feel their glares. They loved to do this. I kept tripping over branches and I could feel the cuts on my arms....
"It was just like all the others. "Fear. Defense. Anonymity. "Just enough of the subject's face had been blurred so...
Wrongfully Accused Congressman · Prison Guard · Escape
"You been seeing the television?" the Guard said. Huxton squinted, through the bleariness of sleep into the bleach o...
With fifteen minutes until the start of the hearing, a bagel stop was inadvisable. The queue for the espresso machin...
I wanted to give him everything I had. He was my love, and I knew, at long last, what I wanted out of life. I wanted...
Cindy yawned and stretched as she started her day. It was time to walk her pet octopus. She pulled Ollie out of his...
This is the short story about the journey of three friends from plumstead to central london at 23/02/2015. Friend ...
Penelope loved the fountain, loved the way the water sprayed, cooling her in the hot sun, making her clothes cling as...