She was walking home from work, tired from staring at a screen that she almost missed the cute witchy shop called "Wi...
I had a best friend. He was almost exactly the same as me, except he was... different. He followed me around almost e...
The freaking tiny pebbles are getting all stuck in my shoes. Urgggg. This is stupid. I mean why did I come down to th...
Balanced on the line, he told her again, "Put it down!" "Come on, then," she said, impishly. "I can't. You know I ...
He had had that dream again. He had dreamed about that walk and the ice sculpture many times. But this was the first ...
The words from the poem mirrored the scene in front of him. "Two roads diverged in a wood," he recited aloud. "Which ...
Dave had placed an add just the week before in the personals. His fetish wasn't the most obscure among those looking ...
His apology was not the thing she'd expected when she checked her phone in the morning. With one eye she stared at th...
"What is this?" I ask, my voice becoming more and more hysterical with every word I say. "It's your life." Jordan say...
The words hovered beneath my glowing finger, power incarnate. I lifted the text, spinning it lazily in the air, befor...
Her eyes dimmed in colour as she stepped into the darkness, with the decoration lights around the chinese restaurant ...
The voiceless aberration toiled within his thoughts. Where was he? What purpose? Why? The words seemed to jumble with...
When he'd signed up to visit strange new worlds, he'd never envisioned this. He turned slowly in the glass globe, dev...
She didn't look at him.
She didn't look at him she couldn't tell him. She couldn't even tell her family. What would they say? What would they...
She didn't look at him; she looked past him, half closing her eyes as if basking in the sunlight. She was really tryi...
She didn't look at him. She couldn't look at him. What would he think? she wondered as she sipped her wine and kept h...
SNAP! it was now that Klein realised he was done. 15 minutes earlier there was a group of young boys running around...
How endlessly the ocean seems to stretch out over the horizon. It never ends as it drifts beyond view, but you and I ...
The boy continued staring at the empty space that wasn't empty. Air surrounded him, invisible oxygen that he couldn't...
The plumber did not arrive on time. Later I found out he'd been fishing in Plantation Lake, that place near Kingswood...
I sit high in the tree above the water. Watching. Bapa sits in his little green boat rocking gently in the water. The...
swallowed by the water flowers at last the canoe breathed across the swamp I found the roots of an ancient oak felled...
The implant's biggest drawbacks were the headaches. The gear-man had assured her that would abate in time, but meanwh...
Geraldine, I'm serious give me that back, I don't have time for this... Because it's mine. Give it back now. It's rin...
Johnny, my boyfriend was aptly named. Laura, my dad's girlfriend called him 'The Pirate' because of his long dark cu...
Pension
He searched through the records, long dusky fingers flipping rapidly through file after file in the Archives. He kept...
Maurice looked at the empty mailbox and sighed. His pension was supposed to be delivered today; first of the month,...
I remember my Nans pension book. The smell of the paper and the ink. I would hold it to my nose as I walked to the po...