Mary wandered through Arlington National Cemetery. She was looking for her grandfather's tombstone. In a sea of perfe...

I am different. I know it. They know it. They being society. In our society, we are to dress the same, act the same, ...

From the edge of a hole in the ground, lying on his side in a pool of his own blood, Jim looked around for his arm. ...

Thank God the image was blurred thought Johnston looking over his daughter's shoulder. She had accidentally found his...

I stepped into the bathroom, which was green. There was a tape player and it was playing Chinese gongs. There was a s...

Harold finally decided to turn his life around while he was standing in front of the elevator. Even though his meet...

The heart beating, dazzling country Kenya is the home of millions of people all formed into one loving family. To som...

It was a random trip, picked quite literally with a dart to a map. Jon would be going to Kenya. He'd never been outsi...

Kenya was the name of my doppelganger. I thought it a strange name, thought he might call himself Jim or John, both m...

You know this comforting feeling of nostalgia? It always catches me up, when I look at old pictures, just like this. ...

"I hope we never grow up," Kate said. "We will," answered Petra, "But we don't need to grow old." The memories of th...

An old sepia photo can be a bullet. It can tear through the lineup of neurons, neatly lined up like socks on a bed. I...

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 Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower coolly. Lord Howard stood behind him, rigid, hands neatly behind his ba...

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower smoothly. "Good good," he said in his nasally voice. Rubbing his hands to...

The Potentate surveyed his creamsicle tower cooly. "Were my instructions not clear," he asked in the calm manner so ...

A Time to grow And a Time to grow old A Time to learn And a Time to teach A Time to receive And a Time to give A Time...

"Carry the wreath, Henry, your mother is waiting." Father's terse words spoken from the side of his mouth, muffled b...

The sun this morning grows short thick shadows from the cobblestones. A sweaty head against the curb, red hatching at...

In hindsight, the solution was obvious. It was the one time Watson had solved the case before I had. He teased me abo...

The idea that bad luck happens when a black cat crosses your path is completely ridiculous. Maybe if the creature tri...

I saw it then, I see it now but somehow the access or more the feeling of ownership yes the feeling of ownership over...

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 ...

I'm trapped. I came to the beach, ready to relax. Ready to escape my work, and every annoying person in my life. But ...

"Come here," I whisper loud enough for her to hear me. She gives me a look and laughs, tilting her head up to the sky...

That damn tree was going to fall on him, he just knew it. What use was the open sky, the billowing waves of blue, or...