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...
She didn't look at him.
She didn't look at him she couldn't tell him. She couldn't even tell her family. What would they say? What would they...
She didn't look at him; she looked past him, half closing her eyes as if basking in the sunlight. She was really tryi...
She didn't look at him. She couldn't look at him. What would he think? she wondered as she sipped her wine and kept h...
Her mind was wrapped around the character sitting next to her. He reeked of sex and alcohol she was told at a young a...
The old lady was in real trouble now. She did not feel the grey touch of the dark hand as it stroked her wrinkled fac...
A tattoo of a shadow remains when the light recedes. Mock the sun, then, and ridicule the clouds. They've always see...
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 ...
My singing was awful. Didn't matter as the audience were drunk, I could see Lorna sticking her tongue down John's thr...
The lights dimmed. Mary-Rose, in her black-and-white jail-striped dress entered the stage from the left. My left, not...
She sang. Her beautiful voice rang out through the dense smoke in the room, pushing out into the ears, minds and hear...
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 ...
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...
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...
The bully grabbed me and Billy by the collar. He started dragging us in the direction of what looked like a soccer go...
It seemed a good idea to tell the kids to hide behind the bars when the boy went berserk. Glue sniffing was the first...
Josh ground his teeth in frustration. The other kids on the playground were really getting to be a nuisance. He'd he...