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...

Half naked and desperate, the child climbed the thin bars of the door, her cage, staring at the world outside. Her ri...

It was difficult getting to people to understand that actually you wanted to be in the cage. That the cage was the sa...

The first few days she hadn't noticed the bars. She'd noticed very little about her surroundings other than that they...

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...

As the walked along a long fenced pathway, she told Martin, that she was bringing him to a refugee camp, and that she...

She pulled her head back from the binoculars, a scowl on her face. The were all over the streets, and it was only a m...

The fat girl at Kentucky Fried Chicken touched my forehead with the palm of her hand. Her skin was oily and she had p...

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, ...

Sitting at a desk with pen in hand. "It's us against the world." "Watch out, America." The circle of faces tight...

I was an optimist. I thought that I, like Hemingway, could weave my influence between countries, live in the welcomin...

He couldn't see through the rain. The rain covered everything in sight, like a thick veil of mosquito netting had bee...

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. ...

Prompt: Lola “Who’s for another?” it came out as one word. Jack knew it and hid the knowledge with busy bustle. He...

The moment she walked into the room, I knew I was in for a wild time. Dressed to the nines, head to toe in the most w...

Lola, she was a dancer... something about flowers in her hair or was it her underwear? He couldn't actually remember ...

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...

The alien craft exploded invisible to the human eye. The inhabitants had exited over an hour ago, running amazingly f...

He smoked pipes, ate limes, ate the gnats he swiped from the air. The lions lounged in the front yard. He chose lions...

On the fourth day of the invasion, the defenders opened the gates of the zoo. Let those bastards contend with lions ...