I thought, looking at that bloodshot sky, wow i thought, this is a sky to die under. Look at the sun. I bet it's not ...
Nicky crouched, letting sand dribble through her fist. If only the sand were falling through the hour glass instead, ...
Your blood is the light in the sky and the night is the new blood replacing the old. That darker blood you receive ea...
There was a party in the upstairs of the building. On the roof. It was my building too. I had lived there for many ye...
She hadn't felt like this since she was six years old. Once, at a circus, she had begged her father for a balloon, sw...
The power of flight could be transferred. When Marisa first discovered this, she was thrilled. As far as she knew, o...
The tigers snarled at each other as they fought over the prize. Eyes narrowed, they watched for the slightest hesitat...
They were the best of friends, but the worst of enemies. My husband and his brother would become like tigers fighting...
He watched from a distance, hidden behind a bush. The two tigers snarled at each other, circling around, judging each...
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...
It had to be the bumblebee parachute. I wanted one with Hello Kitty on it but Al said no. Black and yellow clashed wi...
Wow. The Statue of Liberty. I've lived in New York my whole life, and have personally seen it one time, and it's on m...
He could remember the first time he saw that statue. It was one of those things you simply never forgot, like a first...
Behind me, the world caved in. There it goes, I thought. There it goes at last. I emptied my pockets and threw my han...
I had always wanted to win. Something, I dunno; life, a contest, sports day. I craved to see my luminous ego reflecte...
The summer was new, the grass was having that wet green quality when it is the first time in a long while the sun hav...
The year was 1986.
The year was 1986 and she was a high school softball star. So young and full of potential. She was beautiful. She had...
The year was 1986 and I was 10 years old living in south Louisiana. My family had been living in Louisiana for gener...
The year was 1986. My home, a typical home in Suburbia, USA. My life, a typical American teenager, filled with angst ...
Turtle · Zeno · Go the distance
What does it mean to go the distance? Does it mean to beat everyone else or to beat yourself? When you grow up, paren...
Now, supposedly, if I start out a hundred meters ahead of Achilles, and Achilles is travelling five times faster than...
"His thoughts are too scattered, just give him a moment to collect." This advice within the high pitched laugh of a w...
Drowning in the sea. That was the trick of it. To be seen to swoon, to fall to the bottom. The pretend to expire. It ...
Drowning in the sea. That was the trick of it. To be seen to swoon, to fall to the bottom. The pretend to expire. It ...
Marjorie was drowning. She felt the pull of the water on her legs and the icy shock in her heart. She hadn't even fe...
The dapper man picked up a penny.
A dapper man picked up a penny. He tossed it the air, but it fell. He never caught it. A spankled girl kicked up her ...
The woman watched Martin run into the snow. She could see him for couple of meters, but the lost him in the snow. Thr...
The stories rarely stop when the party does. He was not tall, or lean, but he was fashionable. He had the bushiest ...