Daring to be noticed for the first time in her life, she pushed her chair back and stood up. "Everybody take a good l...

It was the one. He had to be. There was no one else in the room who dared to stand against the flow of society. It ha...

Daring to be noticed for the first timein her life, she pushed her chair back and stood up. The room fell silent as s...

I shot my butler. He was a mole! I should have known. I'm trained to tell whether someone is lying or not. I'm a secr...

I shot my butler. I never really wanted to though, He was a kind man. It was a week ago, and since then I've been a...

"I shot my butler." I threw the manuscript across the room. Grabbed a scotch. No. Wait. Wanted a scotch, grabbed a bo...

Slowly it built, piece by piece. The atoms of its essence compiling line after line, upwards and outwards, exploding ...

"Big wheels keep on turnin'..." Paul's hands beat on the steering wheel in time with Lynyrd Skynrd as he drove down t...

Gradually. That was the secret, wasn't it? Build up their trust or indifference, either one would do, like in t...

Sen evindeyken bazı şeyler oldu, bilmezsin. nerden bileceksin. Evindeydin. sıcacık yuvan. sana ait her şeyiyle. belki...

He hung his shirt up on the clothesline before he left. He told me he was going fishing, and I said okay, and gave a...

I still washed his shirt. There was only his plaid shirt, because it was what he'd worn. But I still washed it. My so...

I am really nervous. It's there. Looming. And I feel like if I move it will know, and everything around me will crumb...

100 feet away I watched the smugglers struggle to get over the jagged stones, collapse onto the wet sand, expel salt ...

100 feet away Mulder knew the Sasquatch was waiting. This was it, the moment of truth. Jonas, the new field agent c...

I couldn't move. My legs felt like jelly and I had to sit. Everything in the hospital seemed to go blurry. "Are you o...

She'd have preferred the electric chair, but he wouldn't have it. "Think about how much easier it would be on everyon...

"She'd have preferred the electric chair," Melanie said. A half grin sat on her lips as she stirred the crinkle fry ...

Last night was so alive so alive she got locked on the rooftop of her own party. Everyone was down stairs having a gr...

I stare up into the sky, watching all the birds fly by. Someday I'm gonna fly too. My balloons float, why can't I? I'...

The first time I ever saw Eve, she was laying down on a blue picnic blanket that convered a smooth cement floor. She ...

Friday is supposed to be a day to look forward to - TGIF, right? Sammy had been dreading Friday all week because he ...

“The entire shell is Chronium. That shields the op…” “You mean chrome. Chromium?” “Ahem. Crow NEE Uhm. Chronium. As...

The visitor asked, "Can you write a story without a prompt?" "I don't know," said the writer. "I've never tried." "...

Ring, ring! Ring, ring!' "Hello, this is General Kuznetz", I stated. "Yes, I understand". "There has been a change ...

The dress blue uniforms were itchy. They were tired and hot and couldn't wait for the ceremony to be over. The captai...

Well would you believe it? There I was sat on my couch balancing a plate of egg and chips on my knee when his face fl...

She was walking down the sidewalk in the downtown area of Seattle when she noticed a pile of white blankets and other...

They would never stop. She used to love the sight of birds on a rooftop, electric wires, even clotheslines. She used...

Disappeared into the cityscape, hiding unintentionally, friend to only the birds, for they are the only ones who wi...