My singing was awful. Didn't matter as the audience were drunk, I could see Lorna sticking her tongue down John's thr...
The lights dimmed. Mary-Rose, in her black-and-white jail-striped dress entered the stage from the left. My left, not...
She sang. Her beautiful voice rang out through the dense smoke in the room, pushing out into the ears, minds and hear...
Mark rolled his black wheelchair into the school cafeteria, casting furtive glances at those around him as he admired...
Cute Cute and smiling If only she could have held it, forever Then she would have been...useful? what she was meant...
Her first Christmas back at home was a terrifying event. Someone named Aunt Martha kept hugging her, crying. She said...
Wrongfully Accused Congressman · Prison Guard · Escape
"You been seeing the television?" the Guard said. Huxton squinted, through the bleariness of sleep into the bleach o...
With fifteen minutes until the start of the hearing, a bagel stop was inadvisable. The queue for the espresso machin...
I wanted to give him everything I had. He was my love, and I knew, at long last, what I wanted out of life. I wanted...
Your 8 year old Brother · Dracula · Mixtape
My eight-year-old brother couldn't sleep. He had watched a scary movie, and its main character was invading his thoug...
We were sitting in the basement, Danny and me. Tv's on. Hockey game. Upstairs ma and pa is fighting again. Bills. Or ...
dear bobo, happy birthday! i am sorry i missed it, but i hummed the song for you this morning while we convoyed into ...
The water was clear.
The water was clear but her conscience was not. Carla gazed into the crystal goblet's depths, the sparkling liquid r...
The water was clear, so I stared at it, looking at my reflection. I was ugly, there were no two ways about. She had b...
The water was clear and not a cloud was in the sky. Melody lay in the tall weeds near the lake under a weeping willow...
Sometimes, the best cure for loneliness is to actually be alone. Which is actually kind of hard to do, considering t...
There was originally only one photograph. Now there were two. Well, two halves. Incomplete. Roughly cut down the midd...
The ghosts of her past continued to haunt her. The parents she'd disappointed, the boy she'd left behind, even the t...
The lamp wouldn't turn on.
It was dark inside. I toggled the switch, and nothing happened. Shit. Thunder rolled and I sighed. Power outage. ...
The lamp wouldn't turn on. I was going to have to help deliver a baby in pitch darkness. With the elevator stuck betw...
The lamp wouldn't turn on. "Shit," Mel muttered. "Jerry!" Of course, he wouldn't come. He was in the tiny bathr...
The disco ball was turning.
I was dancing. The disco ball was turning. It was Monica's sweet 16 and I got invited. But unfortunately, I regrette...
The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...
The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...
You can count me out.
"Oh, do come for dinner!" she purred. "Is there anything you don't eat?" "Well ... quite a few things," he said. "I h...
You can count me out. You can count me out. How many times do I have to say it? Count me out of your scheme. I have...
You can count me out, I said. I am not doing it. No. I left this years ago. I have a life now, I told them. No more o...
One scoop chocolate, one scoop...
One scoop chocolate, one scoop... The ice cream scoop clatters on the counter top, empty. I stare at the perfectly ro...
"One scoop chocolate, one scoop..." the girl giggled as she plopped the ice cream into the bowl. "Two scoops chocolat...
One scoop chocolate, one scoop strawberry. One scoop soil, one scoop blood. One scoop of fear, one scoop of daring. O...