My grandma had this incredible house. Like one of the ones you see in movies. Like, this is going to be a really cr...
They had come up this mountain every wensday evening for the last three years, from the creation of there IOGT-lodge....
When we reached the top, we were so dizzy from the thin air we'd forgotten why we had to climb and headed back down t...
Im packing my bag, ready to go. Im walking to the station. Waiting for the bus. Dear driver, surprise me where we go...
He ripped the tape off the top of the box, and thrust open the flaps. There was a small cardboard van inside. He took...
"I has a bus! I iz in it!"--written in black sharpie on the pink paper. The torn end of it soft and frayed, the groce...
butterfly is my name, butterfly is my code name is what I mean. Small 'b'. Serial number 123456123456. One day I will...
A crappy painting of a girl in headphones standing on the crest of a mountain, surrounded by butterflies. This is wh...
She heard it calling out to her. Her clearing in Yellowstone -- it was whispering that it longed for her presence. An...
I was scared. I could see another perspective of myself. Did I want this to happen? No. But, did it happen for a reas...
It had been a long day the escape from the crowd into the woods had worn Jessica out completely she was tired. leavin...
I was nothing like his mother. Didn't look like her, act like her yet he told his friends we had to split up because ...
What's this? Dad showed me the picture of the orangutan splayed on the grass. A monkey, I said. It's you, he said....
She looked fondly out the window at him. he was lying in the grass with his eyes closed, enjoying the many priviledg...
"Who among you, if her son asks her for bread, will instead give him a stone?" I was paraphrasing, and quoting out o...
You had me at 'ox bow lake'.
I wonder. I really wonder. He always enjoyed pulling a fast one over me, he did. So I suppose this wasn't a surprise,...
Ox bow lake? I said looking at Jerry. He sat there with that evil kniving look on his face. I knew i should have stay...
You had me at ox bow lake, knee deep in dark water. "It's not so bad, right?" you said. "It's no Jersey Shore," I s...
Until now, she'd never thought of herself as pretty.
Until now, she'd never thought of herself as pretty. The purple satin fabric reaching her feet. Hair tied up beautifu...
She looked in the mirror and thought about that one guy. The guy who always smiled her way. The only person every to ...
Not really that pretty But lovely Strong flowing She sat on the beach watching the last sunset We were tense and sa...
He didn't think he was much of a cat person until he met Matilda.
He didn't think he was much of a cat person until he met Matilda. When Luke first set eyes on Matilda in the local ...
Matilda was the first woman he'd ever dated that had been a cat before surgery. She told him at the end of the third ...
Matilda changed a great many things in my empty life. I started to wonder if a meal could be too good after such a lo...
I couldn't sleep with her next to me.
I woke up in the middle of the night to be covered in sweat. I sat up and looked around my room to find nothing. I sl...
I couldn't sleep with her next to me. And the funniest thing is, I'd been waiting for this moment for three years. ...
I couldn't sleep with her next to me. So cold. Her skin. I had to pretend she was still alive. There was no way that ...
It was the fall that surprised me most.
After the murder I found it hard to recall what happened in my personal life but only remembered other things. The a...
It was the fall that surprised me most. I watched as the sofa slid down the stairs of the women's dorm, I rushed down...
It was a surpise to discover that grandad's home disappeared down the sink hole. The ground literally swallowed him u...