Shape is a thing that comes to you, after you have grown. Breasts. Waist. Arms. Butt. It's a struggle between ...

The old woman was lying on the park bench underneath layers of musty old coats, pink v-sweaters (four) and thermal u...

The large shape of the medical building loomed on the horizon. Vic and I were survivors of a plague tring to get a va...

The mail box never had anything I wanted so I went onto the next home. Usually I picked up a few interesting pieces f...

We sat on our toboggan at the top of the hill behind the house. It wasn't much of a sliding hill, but it was easy to ...

We made a little church of our own when we promised to marry. You asked me when I barely understood how to love you, ...

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...

The writers club - writer's club? writers' club? - started amicably enough. Geoff (Murder Mysteries and Historical ro...

CRASH! the window had shattered after being shoot by a gun. All of us shuddered at the sound what were we going to d...

I can still see the shadow of the hooded unknown, swaying back and forth whilst wielding a gun. The fumes of gun powe...

The conversation lasted two words: "Too much." Too much pain? Too much regret? Too much suffering. And who's? From tw...

I am trying to make up words as I tremble in Fear. I can feel the first drop of sweat starting to run down my face. H...

"I'm sorry", the two words that shattered her world. She let the dial tone ring out, as a hot tear ran down her cheek...

It was rather like being a ghost. Vicarious snooping. A social media haunting (stalking?). The only way to keep in to...

It wasn't entirely fair. It wasn't. You knew it wasn't. See that one in the back? She's yours, right? The one ba...

In memory of Sanvee Ali, age 5. He will be remembered in our home and in our hearts.

Puck looked at the watch and pondered on the nature of time. It was almost as fickle as he was. What marriage - o...

As he felt the air spin around him, he stood up. He could no longer see anything except the pocket watch that he had ...

Hypnotised. It was one of those moments I'd never forget because I inflicted it all on myself. Thought it would be a...

My whole life people have teased me for my looks. People think that what is one the outside matters. They made me bel...

Alfred Cappachino looked out at the swirling mass of humanity, a stupid grin plastered to his face to hide his abject...

I've forgotten how to do this...how to just sit down, and type out my thoughts, or my feelings. I find that I'm const...

The bird landed, not with a bang but with a whimper. Who would have thought that the poor little thing had so much t...

I never noticed this before. There's a little fairy that follows Peter around. Huh. Why haven't I ever noticed that...

It landed in 1966. The voyages of the Starship Enterprise would enthrall fans of Star Trek for three years before fin...

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...