The girl looked up at her mother and said, "We're small." It was sudden--so sudden that the mother looked down at he...
I have writers block. Urggggg. Okay, I should probably explain myself. I am a writer. Well its more like I would li...
The people in the cafe continued talking as I stood to look at the door. Still not here. I glanced at my watch. Dash...
1943.
The air raid sirens were going off. I could tell. Even from the thousands of feet above, I could hear the wailing of ...
1943. The year of my birth. To a very young mother. Raped by a stranger. I spent forty years believing that Tom Morra...
1943 (19:43 to be exact, but the : had given up life years ago) 30 oC 1943 29 oC 1944 The red LEDs blinked thei...
Goodnight...
Goodnight sweetheart, well it's time to go... Goodnight sweetheart, well it's time to go... There's a contentment th...
Sleep and you may dream. Remain and you will surely regret the decisions you make in the night. Intermittent car ho...
"Good night," the bar manager said, as he tapped a stack of bills on their side to even them out. The waitress dumped...
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...
Freeform prompt
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." "...
He didn't think he was much of a cat person until he met Matilda.
He didn't think he was much of a cat person until he met Matilda. When Luke first set eyes on Matilda in the local ...
Matilda was the first woman he'd ever dated that had been a cat before surgery. She told him at the end of the third ...
Matilda changed a great many things in my empty life. I started to wonder if a meal could be too good after such a lo...
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...
Vanquished.
Your foundation was laid a long time ago. You said it was always the same, just before. His voice offering up your na...
Monica Albott had never been beautiful. Sure, she had been cute, pretty even, but never beautiful. She said this ove...
Creeping up again. That is what I thought as as I woke up in my nice but dull apartment. The life I had made for myse...
Ridiculous.
'Ridiculous' the spelling bee judge called out. Christina was confident. Her smile was plastered across her face, she...
It was ridiculous that at my age I could not do anything without my parents getting involved. They were overprotectiv...
Ridiculous. Absurd. Absolutely and beyond all normal standards of decency, indecent. That was how I looked in the mir...
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...