They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, the grime and dirt on the old hardwood floor unsettling beneath their feet....

They crouched to peer beneath the stairs, their eyes reflecting the light like stars in the darkness. Not that anyone...

There was only a sliver of space between the floorboards and the door under the stairs. It wasn't even really a door....

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...

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...

He could not even translate it. It was what one might call a specific knowledge, the fact that he did not understand ...

£18,000. That is what the twisted gold wire bracelet was worth to me. Commonly known as a torc. Iron age. It was easy...

£18000. That's all it would take. But it was more than Charles had, that was certain. He gazed in wonder at that glos...

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...

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 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 ...

Spinning. Spinning. Spinning. That is all she knows now. "You'll become dizzy soon," he whispers in her ear. She smi...

Four minutes away from the burn point, one of the telltales switched from green to red. Tears streamed from my eyes, ...

The room kept spinning for the delicate human. You could tell by the way it swayed in its place on the floor beneath ...

It was a gloomy day in the middle of no where all i could see was piles upon piles of hay, it felt late and i ont kno...

The fields were parched. There was no water. Where was the rain, she wondered as she stared across the cracked land...

I'll miss the way the breeze would blow hair into his eyes, and the way I would brush it away, asking him when he was...

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...