She opened the envelope and screamed.
She opened the envelope and screamed. "I got in!" she told her parents, hopping excitedly as she held out the accepta...
She opened the envelope and screamed. This was not the day to be squeamish. This was the day her daughter would be ...
She opened the envelope and screamed. She could not believe him, she simply could not believe that he was still persu...
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...
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 ...
The day after tomorrow, this will all be over.
The day after tomorrow, this will be all over. The waiting, the anxiety, the impatience will end. I have paced my roo...
Martin Adams began to type. He wasn't sure what to say; a fact that the repeated DELETES and EDITS made clear. Love l...
The day after tomorrow, this will all be over. End of the world according to the Mayan predictions. It didn't seem wo...
He set the plate before her.
He set the plate before her. She was petrified, the bugs an creepy crawlies moving around on her plate didn't help. S...
He set the plate before her. It was barely covered, a thin, fatty slice of what looked like baloney slapped alongside...
The room was dimly lit with the candles he had scattered before she had arrived. The meal would be served in just a ...
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...
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...
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...
The lamp wouldn't turn on.
It was dark inside. I toggled the switch, and nothing happened. Shit. Thunder rolled and I sighed. Power outage. ...
The lamp wouldn't turn on. I was going to have to help deliver a baby in pitch darkness. With the elevator stuck betw...
The lamp wouldn't turn on. "Shit," Mel muttered. "Jerry!" Of course, he wouldn't come. He was in the tiny bathr...
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...