The tigers snarled at each other as they fought over the prize. Eyes narrowed, they watched for the slightest hesitat...

They were the best of friends, but the worst of enemies. My husband and his brother would become like tigers fighting...

He watched from a distance, hidden behind a bush. The two tigers snarled at each other, circling around, judging each...

Didn't even stop to look the dude in the eyes before shoving him off the bridge. The coat was fancy, that's all that ...

There was a man who rode on a white horse. He wore a golden cloak. He was handsome and upright in posture. When he pa...

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...

They were trapped for seven days. Faced with a myriad of uncertainties, this much Antonius knew to be true. The pangs...

They were trapped for seven days. Aleena tried to hold back the tears as it had been seven days since she had seen th...

They were trapped for seven days. And all he could think about was how stupid and incompetent everyone was. Oh, he c...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...