I am really nervous. It's there. Looming. And I feel like if I move it will know, and everything around me will crumb...

100 feet away I watched the smugglers struggle to get over the jagged stones, collapse onto the wet sand, expel salt ...

100 feet away Mulder knew the Sasquatch was waiting. This was it, the moment of truth. Jonas, the new field agent c...

It was her masterpiece. Jutting out of the water, everyone around could see what she'd created - what *she* had crea...

His dive, performed in front of the small, half-drunk dinner party, was perfect in his mind. He'd had a few martinis ...

For some reason, I couldn't stop staring at the picture. It was... gorgeous, sure. The colors were somewhat exaggerat...

Where the sun sets, and the wind blows, two girls run across the ocean, having fun with each other. The two girls liv...

You know how people always use that metaphor of how an iceberg shows a small portion of the story, but the ice travel...

If humans are mostly water, what happens when you remove it? This was the idle yet macabre thought that raced throu...

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...

If you ever pass this house on 23 silverdores street, your sight will be mesmerized. A red checkered pattern clock ha...

The border. He had. To find. The border. He'd made this trip a hundred times before and each time the damn thing move...

You know damn well the head is in the box. You know damn well how this movie will end. But her legs are across yours ...

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 ...

The woolly mammoth lined up for the next event in the prehistoric Winter Olympics: the 400 meter speed skating compet...

"Ice Snakes! I will not let you beat me into the Olympics!" Woolly Mammoth shouted as he watched the Ice Snakes perfo...

From the day the museum opened, the mammoth was the first thing every visitor saw. How could they miss it? It towered...

I shot my butler. He was a mole! I should have known. I'm trained to tell whether someone is lying or not. I'm a secr...

I shot my butler. I never really wanted to though, He was a kind man. It was a week ago, and since then I've been a...

"I shot my butler." I threw the manuscript across the room. Grabbed a scotch. No. Wait. Wanted a scotch, grabbed a bo...

"No parking anytime" read the sign on the tall, black, iron gate. "Well, if I'm going to break the rules, I guess th...

There once was a house that no child or adult dared enter, the house was known to be haunted. Even though that the ho...

Joshua parked in front of the iron gate, irritated at this sign, just one of many from his absentee father. He was ne...

"What's that, Daddy?" James hid a smile behind his hand and answered, "That's a telephone, sweetie. You put money in...

It's ringing. Ringing. Ringing. Ringing. STOP it from ringing! Karla never wanted to hear his voice again. Never wan...

A dry, sandy summer like this one. I had met him just a mile down, by the Shell gas station, his cowboy boots kicking...