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. ...

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 storm had blown over, but not before it had blown over his ship, along with all of his crew. The captain always w...

So close, yet so far. Matey the Pirate never understood the phrase until these last few days of his life. The woodp...

The waves were bigger than she'd ever seen before. They were not waves tonight. They were destructive bombs, pulveriz...

Marie wiped her sweaty palms on her jeans. Breathing heavily, she glanced impatiently at the bland, hospital door; it...

The results were in, she said. And he ran and ran and ran and ran, disregarding the shouts of teachers behind him, ju...

The results were in. The young men standing before the judges fidgeted anxiously in their military-style uniforms. Ja...

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....

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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 ...