An intuitive, perceptive girl with an eye for detail · Someone who knows something about her that she doesn't · Find out what he knows, and make sense of it
She turns around, but he has vanished again. She weighs the pros and cons of speaking before opening her mouth. "I ca...
"So you're saying you didn't see Willie Mason leaving the store Friday night?" PI Dot Post eyed the man sitting in he...
I'm fine No really. Really really! I'm not being aggressive. NO, I'm NOT! I am NOT shouting. I'm perfectly Ok...
Mary wandered through Arlington National Cemetery. She was looking for her grandfather's tombstone. In a sea of perfe...
I am different. I know it. They know it. They being society. In our society, we are to dress the same, act the same, ...
From the edge of a hole in the ground, lying on his side in a pool of his own blood, Jim looked around for his arm. ...
The mail box never had anything I wanted so I went onto the next home. Usually I picked up a few interesting pieces f...
We sat on our toboggan at the top of the hill behind the house. It wasn't much of a sliding hill, but it was easy to ...
We made a little church of our own when we promised to marry. You asked me when I barely understood how to love you, ...
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...
You know this comforting feeling of nostalgia? It always catches me up, when I look at old pictures, just like this. ...
"I hope we never grow up," Kate said. "We will," answered Petra, "But we don't need to grow old." The memories of th...
An old sepia photo can be a bullet. It can tear through the lineup of neurons, neatly lined up like socks on a bed. I...
Thank God the image was blurred thought Johnston looking over his daughter's shoulder. She had accidentally found his...
I stepped into the bathroom, which was green. There was a tape player and it was playing Chinese gongs. There was a s...
Harold finally decided to turn his life around while he was standing in front of the elevator. Even though his meet...
In hindsight, the solution was obvious.
In hindsight, the solution was obvious. It was the one time Watson had solved the case before I had. He teased me abo...
The idea that bad luck happens when a black cat crosses your path is completely ridiculous. Maybe if the creature tri...
I saw it then, I see it now but somehow the access or more the feeling of ownership yes the feeling of ownership over...
The city was empty.
The city was empty, like the set of a sci-fi movie when the aliens have chased everyone away or a nuclear explosion h...
I sat on the bench in the park. Breathed in the air. Smelled the ash and dust. It was quiet here, beneath the shade ...
I've been following Soulscum for a while now. I don't know what he wants. I don't know why he's here. All I know i...
I'm trapped. I came to the beach, ready to relax. Ready to escape my work, and every annoying person in my life. But ...
"Come here," I whisper loud enough for her to hear me. She gives me a look and laughs, tilting her head up to the sky...
That damn tree was going to fall on him, he just knew it. What use was the open sky, the billowing waves of blue, or...
They were trapped for seven days.
They were trapped for seven days. Faced with a myriad of uncertainties, this much Antonius knew to be true. The pangs...
They were trapped for seven days. Aleena tried to hold back the tears as it had been seven days since she had seen th...
They were trapped for seven days. And all he could think about was how stupid and incompetent everyone was. Oh, he c...