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...

“Pob lwc.” the elder of Saint Joseph’s had wished me, after his strange warning. I presumed he meant for my first Mas...

”Beware the Bwgan Fawr.” the old Vicar sighed. “Every chapel has to have its ‘Ysbryd capel’…” “Its chapel ghost?” th...

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...

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...

Breathlessly she pried open the little box on her palm. Her eyes widened. "How, how could this..." Footsteps approac...

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...

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...

It was late, one winter night. I was not accustomed to being awake at this hour. My car didn't handle the cold well, ...

I lost my grip on the wheel. It had happened before, but it wasn't nearly as embarrassing as now. I had just left P.E...

Driving along a road at night, rain pelting down, tall trees waving low branches across the sky, no moon, no road lig...

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...

She was walking down the sidewalk in the downtown area of Seattle when she noticed a pile of white blankets and other...

They would never stop. She used to love the sight of birds on a rooftop, electric wires, even clotheslines. She used...

Disappeared into the cityscape, hiding unintentionally, friend to only the birds, for they are the only ones who wi...

Every morning, the No. 7 bus drives down Cherry Lane. The kids waiting for the bus get splashed by a puddle whenever ...

Leave me behind as you do is because of my fault. The fault you saw in me is the one you said you'd fix, it's the fau...

It was an odd feeling. Looking at a family. He'd been away from his own family for so long that he felt like he'd nev...