On the top of a roof, in Australia, there was a chair carved from an Italian carpenter in the 18th century. It was a ...
sitting on the I see my family crumbling before my eyes. I have achieved my goal, revenge for what they have done to ...
I sat there every day waiting. But nothing ever happened. I hoped if I sat there long enough that she would come back...
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...
"And when I get older, I'm going to be a fairy!" little Leslie exclaimed. On their second playdate, she and her new p...
I danced in the circle. Just me, my friend Jeanine, and a fairy. That's right, a fairy. People who study this would c...
They danced in a circle by the shores off the lake, laughing as they held each other. Their shifts, made of white sam...
An abandoned child · An abusive father · Escape the family – alive
"Welcome back! Our next contestants are the seven year old Billy and his abusive father Jim, from Fall River, Texas. ...
He heaved a sigh as he walked down the hallway. The revolver hung heavy in his hand. He had no idea what model or bra...
He was coming. Footsteps down the hall. And, of course, he was alone. Nobody else inhabitated this old house - his...
When Martin woke up, he was still in the back of the van. He didn't know, how long he was unconscious. He couldn't se...
Shots were fired all around town. Poor innocent lives we're taken in a matter of seconds. They were taking over... ev...
The snow had hardened overnight and was crisp now. It wasn't what you would call a cold day and Fran had left her jac...
Chocolate lab · Haggard old woman · Eating apple pie
She made pie again. She never lets me have any, but this time she made one huge mistake: placing the pie on the windo...
He'd sat patiently on the threshold of the kitchen all afternoon. She'd dropped countless morsels of crust, of walnut...
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...
They were listening.
Blood dripped down from my arms to my legs. I was bound to a pole in an empty room with nothing but a mirror to look ...
I crept silently through then corridor, the occasional creak of the floorboards abruptly halting me in my path. The...
They were listening. I wasn't worried though, It's not like I had anything important to say. Just knowing that they w...
I slept inside the dream I didn't spin from yarn this time inside my dream i didn't spin another lie within the tale ...
Sasha stretched as she woke, the cold early morning air stinging her skin. Looking around, it took a moment to figur...
When I woke up this morning, I knew it was going to be a good day. No groggy moans coming from my body as usual. A ...
Sam · Ambulance Driver · Hitch a ride
"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...