"HELP" "There's no hope," the monotone sound of Sarah's voice echoing throughout the silent forest. I could not see ...
the birds on the telephone line have heard me talking the birds on the power line have felt me typing one bird two bi...
The raven sat and contemplated the traveler beneath the moon's harsh gaze. She struggled onwards, leaning heavily on ...
They crouched to peer beneath the stairs.
They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, the grime and dirt on the old hardwood floor unsettling beneath their feet....
They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, their eyes reflecting the light like stars in the darkness. Not that anyone...
There was only a sliver of space between the floorboards and the door under the stairs. It wasn't even really a door....
Travel light, but take everything with you.
I look at the glistening gold clock hung onto the station wall. Time is ticking. So slowly I feel that time has froze...
This note. This one note. This small little ticket of joy, was my way out of here. Out of this dump. Where flies cons...
"Travel light, but take everything with you," he said, his sky eyes looking off into the distance, "you never know wh...
Confusion. That's what I am currently experiencing. I used to believe that I was a self-assured and secure person, bu...
Sex wasn't always the first thing on Mandy's mind but it was today. The long zip at the front of the dress was perfec...
We are made of fluff and light. We are made for a continuing struggle to come together in our floating. When I fell...
The children were not at school.
Aangekomen op het kruispunt keek ik naar rechts. En naar links. Links lag mijn bestemming. Een dag vol kennis en te...
The children were not at school. They had better, bolder, brighter things to be doing. The teachers didn't notice. Th...
The children were not at school. They were in the phone booth. Both of them - Kit and Lemuel. They just couldn't keep...
I thought, looking at that bloodshot sky, wow i thought, this is a sky to die under. Look at the sun. I bet it's not ...
Nicky crouched, letting sand dribble through her fist. If only the sand were falling through the hour glass instead, ...
Your blood is the light in the sky and the night is the new blood replacing the old. That darker blood you receive ea...
There was a party in the upstairs of the building. On the roof. It was my building too. I had lived there for many ye...
She hadn't felt like this since she was six years old. Once, at a circus, she had begged her father for a balloon, sw...
The power of flight could be transferred. When Marisa first discovered this, she was thrilled. As far as she knew, o...
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...
Absent.
Absent. The perfect word to describe the situation. Paul and Maria Strickland sat at their kitchen table eating brea...
The episodes were getting more frequent. I'd forget where I was. Friends looking at me strangely as I carried on conv...
He was absent. Again. The kid would only show up on test days - on which he performed well enough. But that wasn't th...