Within sight. A new future within sight. Fresh hope, fresh starts. Leaving behind everything we know and everything...
Capriciously, I repudiated the sky and all its lighting and thunder, snow and rain, and changing colors. The paradig...
The building I lived in was old, rusty around the doorknobs, the 14th floor was still half under construction. The we...
My word muscles are stiff. My writing bones ache. The prose reads like a bruise. I burst bored air through my lips, ...
I lay siege to it. This was war and a fast and furious assault seemed the surest course. There was a front to push fo...
"Dammit it's cold today." Bard pulled his hat further down over his forehead and huddled into his fur. "This shit jus...
The blue sun gave off a cold light. The snow seemed to boil under its glare while the trees darkened at their core an...
Photoshoot for bikinis in the middle of winter in a snow covered backdrop was usually my worst dread. Today, however,...
He led me to the spot and I gasped. "Alex...did you seriously build this?" "For us." He took my hand and I blushed so...
As I gazed across the lake at the empty gazebo, I realized I wanted to be there. To stand in the center, surrounded b...
The dock at his grandfather's pond always reminded him of Imladris, the land known as Rivendell in Tolkien's The Hobb...
At least the cold would keep the goods from spoiling. That was Fred's first thought as he lugged the heavy packages ...
Some people have never touched the snow, or swam in an ocean, or taken an elevator to a rooftop. I once watched it s...
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...
This is a masterful photo taken by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Steven Kramer. Set in Baku, this is a 11th cen...
I thought the world had been tilted upside down. It would have been preferable to its actual state. Everything looks ...
The princess gazed from her tower to the lake, the castle reflected ever so perfectly in the waters. "Nann." She whis...
My grandma had this incredible house. Like one of the ones you see in movies. Like, this is going to be a really cr...
They had come up this mountain every wensday evening for the last three years, from the creation of there IOGT-lodge....
When we reached the top, we were so dizzy from the thin air we'd forgotten why we had to climb and headed back down t...
Until now, she'd never thought of herself as pretty.
Until now, she'd never thought of herself as pretty. The purple satin fabric reaching her feet. Hair tied up beautifu...
She looked in the mirror and thought about that one guy. The guy who always smiled her way. The only person every to ...
Not really that pretty But lovely Strong flowing She sat on the beach watching the last sunset We were tense and sa...
The water was clear.
The water was clear but her conscience was not. Carla gazed into the crystal goblet's depths, the sparkling liquid r...
The water was clear, so I stared at it, looking at my reflection. I was ugly, there were no two ways about. She had b...
The water was clear and not a cloud was in the sky. Melody lay in the tall weeds near the lake under a weeping willow...