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...
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....
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 ...
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...
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...
Gigantic.
I had finished drawing. The picture a beautiful representation of her body. I told her that I was done, she decided n...
The pain was gigantic. No, no wait, that wasn't the right word. What was the right word? Around him people were shout...
Gigantic. Positively enormous. those were the words that first came to mind as she gazed up at the Statue of Liberty....
Twist.
"And now, a nice, juicy twist. That's it. Keep twisting. One final push! Aaaaand release. Other side, now. Raise your...
Twist. Twist. Twist. The doorknob wouldn't turn. The door wouldn't open. And then Liz would find out why Sebastian wa...
The first day of school and he was already in a fight. Mark sighed as the three seventh graders approached him from t...
Samurai · Train · Survival
Halloween. He was dressed up and four years old. He was four years old and his father let go of his hand to talk to a...
I rarely watch the news. Except for that one time when I did turn on the news to catch breathless commentary of the...
Back in his days, John was the sharpest lawyer in town. At the office we used to call him the "Samurai". He used to s...
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...