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...
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 held it at arm's length.
I held it at arms length. A scruffy business card in battered Russian. Something like “путешествие во времени” (“pute...
I held it at arm's length. Three feet long from blade to hilt it, the replica Confederate cavalry sword is beautiful....
I held it at arm's length, pressing the butt of the gun into my shoulder. It was heavy and my muscles screamed and bu...
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...
My family is all we have, we're all so tight and we wouldn't leave each other ever. We made a promise that till death...
He walked back, the small rocks crunching under his feet and the lips of fish sucking to his fingers, as if they were...
Fish meant for market was found dumped in a bin outside the school. The mother believed the rotting smell would disgu...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...