Marie wiped her sweaty palms on her jeans. Breathing heavily, she glanced impatiently at the bland, hospital door; it...

The results were in, she said. And he ran and ran and ran and ran, disregarding the shouts of teachers behind him, ju...

The results were in. The young men standing before the judges fidgeted anxiously in their military-style uniforms. Ja...

Sal knew his time was running out, a runaway train heading straight for him but he had nowhere else to go. "So... wi...

Sal was in love. A part of her felt that she'd always been in love, and almost each time with a different man. But t...

Sal knew it was too late the minute the whistle blew. That train had been keeping time in Millersville for twenty yea...

The storm had blown over, but not before it had blown over his ship, along with all of his crew. The captain always w...

So close, yet so far. Matey the Pirate never understood the phrase until these last few days of his life. The woodp...

The waves were bigger than she'd ever seen before. They were not waves tonight. They were destructive bombs, pulveriz...

The conversation lasted two words: "Too much." Too much pain? Too much regret? Too much suffering. And who's? From tw...

I am trying to make up words as I tremble in Fear. I can feel the first drop of sweat starting to run down my face. H...

"I'm sorry", the two words that shattered her world. She let the dial tone ring out, as a hot tear ran down her cheek...

Prompt: Lola “Who’s for another?” it came out as one word. Jack knew it and hid the knowledge with busy bustle. He...

The moment she walked into the room, I knew I was in for a wild time. Dressed to the nines, head to toe in the most w...

Lola, she was a dancer... something about flowers in her hair or was it her underwear? He couldn't actually remember ...

Sitting at a desk with pen in hand. "It's us against the world." "Watch out, America." The circle of faces tight...

I was an optimist. I thought that I, like Hemingway, could weave my influence between countries, live in the welcomin...

He couldn't see through the rain. The rain covered everything in sight, like a thick veil of mosquito netting had bee...

Green cover holds me. Oak Tree stands guard behind me. Sun warms me. Stream sings me to sleep. Sleep meets with Dream...

Her eyes were green. No, not just green. Emeralds, yet infinitely more precious. Like the sea, though far more deep a...

Green. Indubitably so. A vast expanse if it, spreading out to the horizon. Different shades breaking it up into secti...

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...

Half naked and desperate, the child climbed the thin bars of the door, her cage, staring at the world outside. Her ri...

It was difficult getting to people to understand that actually you wanted to be in the cage. That the cage was the sa...

The first few days she hadn't noticed the bars. She'd noticed very little about her surroundings other than that they...

Spinning. Spinning. Spinning. That is all she knows now. "You'll become dizzy soon," he whispers in her ear. She smi...

Four minutes away from the burn point, one of the telltales switched from green to red. Tears streamed from my eyes, ...

The room kept spinning for the delicate human. You could tell by the way it swayed in its place on the floor beneath ...