A paradigm shift: when you entire worldview changes. When something reaches into your mind and bends the part of your...
It flies through the air, flashing silver and disappearing. My fate depends on that coin landing face up. All I can h...
People always said that I was like a coin. I had two sides. No one really knew what side they were speaking to. I'd...
She could tell I was faking it.
Savouring words was a joy to him. Illiterate for many years; he learnt to read and write late in life. His appreciati...
She could tell I was faking it. My smile felt wrong, though no one else knew. She knew. A glance at the priest standi...
She could tell I was faking it. They all could. They'd have to have known I wasn't "fine". I mean, come on. It's not ...
She'd always come running when I called.
She'd always come running when I called. That's why when she didn't come, I freaked out. My girlfriend was kind and g...
since the days have past, a girl of a young of her time has to run away as if she ever knew what was going on. She ha...
She'd always come running when I called. That one girl I relied on throughout the toughest of times. I couldn't imagi...
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...
He ran into the room, his heart pounding, and his clothes soaking wet.
He ran into the room, his heart pounding and his clothes soaking wet. Just earlier that day, he headed out for the d...
Immediately he ripped his dresser draw open. Rummaging through the clothes all neatly packed. Foot steps are heard fr...
"Damnit Christine, god damnit, call 911!" I shouted, dropping my sisters limp body on the bed. There was froth aroun...
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...
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....
It approached.
She could feel the terror drenching and cloaking itself around her. Don't be afraid, it whispered. You've known for y...
It came at me. At a speed of lightning. I couldn't think. Speak, or even hear correctly. The crowbar was flung direct...
Looking out my thirteenth floor office window, I marveled at how dark, gritty and simply dirty the air looked. It wa...
Kelsey · Kent · End the bloodshed
Kelsey had always hated Kent. Kent was a skinny, chaste, and weak man. His skin was light and ashy, his hair not blon...
Kent was stabbing someone. I think it was Mary. Maybe it was Bill. I don't know. The important thing is that it was a...
Kelsey was afraid to go out at night. Afraid of big, bad Bromley. When she told people she met online that she left i...
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...