Two men entered, wearing respiratory masks. They came over to the register and looked at Martin, who just looked back...
Officer Malone stopped at the doorway of the house. "Do you smell that?" she asked. The rest of the team paused as ...
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...
While me and my friend were packing, I thought of what we will do during the holiday we have away from school or stre...
I was scared. I could see another perspective of myself. Did I want this to happen, no, but did it happen for a reaso...
I lay there, floating. On the outside, at least. On the inside, I walked quietly down a dark hallway towards a bright...
I remember when I was a kid. I sat on the edge of my father's car, waiting for him come home from his walks. I would ...
I remember the smell of wet snow on a blinding morning. Squinting through glare and steam. Battleship twigs wobble in...
The winter of 1970 in the Bay Area was not something I ever expected to experience- especially since I was born in 19...
I walked along the flat stones that made up the busy road and let the bustling crowds swallow me whole. My heart poun...
Walking towards the light, the people wondered if they would be provided clothes or would they have to keep walking i...
Gavin was gloating. "Enjoy your final moments, Kevin ... maybe use them to wonder how I found you. Good-bye ..." He ...
The young woman stood in the garden, clutching a bunch of dead flowers. "This place needs a LOT of work," she thoug...
I've love photography ever since my father got me into it a few years ago. It would be hard to fill in his shoes. Aft...
I clutched onto the flowers. Today was the day. I am only 19 but I am getting married right now. My father was a rich...
2070.
2070. Last digits of the code. No matter what they did, I was not going to tell them the rest of it. My undercover me...
I liked Erica, but Daddy didn't. She did everything for him, like the man on the advert said she would, and it had me...
2070, by 2070 i want all the bad things to be gone. i want there to be a cure to all the bad things that affect our w...
Leaving was the easiest decision to make, and the hardest action to take.
Leaving was the easiest decision to make, and the hardest action to take. They were just sitting there In the box. H...
Leaving was the easiest decision to make, and the hardest action to take. Nobody knows until they've been in those sh...
Leaving was the easiest decision to make, and the hardest action to take. He'd told his parents he wanted to move out...
She was the most delicate girl in town.
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...
Gene · Heather · Guilt
She was looking ahead, eyes parallel with the ground. She was looking ahead, eyes perpendicular with the ground. Pa...
In her rear-view mirror, she saw Gene turn. He looked at the bush, at her, at the bush again, and then felt his pocke...
Heather didn't like being out in the rain. She was going to get even with that bastard Gene - how dare he dump her in...