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. 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...

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. ...

It had to be the bumblebee parachute. I wanted one with Hello Kitty on it but Al said no. Black and yellow clashed wi...

Wow. The Statue of Liberty. I've lived in New York my whole life, and have personally seen it one time, and it's on m...

He could remember the first time he saw that statue. It was one of those things you simply never forgot, like a first...

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...

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...

Didn't even stop to look the dude in the eyes before shoving him off the bridge. The coat was fancy, that's all that ...

There was a man who rode on a white horse. He wore a golden cloak. He was handsome and upright in posture. When he pa...

A Time to grow And a Time to grow old A Time to learn And a Time to teach A Time to receive And a Time to give A Time...

"Carry the wreath, Henry, your mother is waiting." Father's terse words spoken from the side of his mouth, muffled b...

The sun this morning grows short thick shadows from the cobblestones. A sweaty head against the curb, red hatching at...

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...

After the murder I found it hard to recall what happened in my personal life but only remembered other things. The a...

It was the fall that surprised me most. I watched as the sofa slid down the stairs of the women's dorm, I rushed down...

It was a surpise to discover that grandad's home disappeared down the sink hole. The ground literally swallowed him u...