The pistol was cocked, ready to go. Aiming at the highway man was easy, pulling the trigger was the problem. I couldn...

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. “Your turn” she said, as my hands trembled in fear. Why was I here? Who was she? ...

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. I was going to show him. I was angry, no, furious. He cut me off! In this city, t...

the grand opening was boring yet it was also very romantic me and my husband had went to the opening because he knew ...

He looked upwards. My goodness - it was high! What would he feel like under these arched ceilings, dwarfed by the mas...

Arches atop tall pedestals opened into an ample space, magnified by groin vault ceilings. Red brick, scrubbed clean, ...

Signs were put up on the wall, all help is lost . The war took the lives of many great, respectable people but this w...

Becky hoped Tom saw what she had written before her teacher did. Mr. Smith was notoriously tidy about the things in ...

I never liked autumn leaves as you do. I watched you look at trees, the delight on your face intensified when you clo...

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...

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...

"there was blood on my pillow and a noose in my heart" These country singers were getting downright moros, good thou...

There was blood on my pillow. It's 6 a.m. and there is blood on my pillow. I started to try and remember what happene...

Whitechapel 1888. There was blood on my pillow again this morning when I awoke. My landlady has already been asking ...

I stare at the row of perfect houses resting on the perfectly manicured lawns beneath a perfectly blue sky by perfect...

I found the ring on the bowling green. Slipped in my back pocket for later as I was in the middle of the tournament. ...

Set down the light set it down anywhere The pure clean of a random weeknight on the coach staring at the white ceili...

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 ...

She was the most delicate girl in town, so different from all the rest. I look at her and all I can do is smile, she...

She was the most delicate girl in town. Or at least, that's what they all thought. With her prim private school uni...

The Delicate Chance No one ever dared to push her too hard. She was robbed of all her real potential because everyone...

When I was 12, I went to sea. I was on my father's ship for 6 months and 4 days when i caught a glimpse of her. I ...

When I was 12, I went to sea. Don't ask me which. I don't know. It was sometimes blue, and it was sometimes green. ...

When I was 12, I went to sea. I went to sea to see the sea. I had yet to see the sea until I was 12. Then the sea I s...