Knives. Knives. What was she going to use them on next? The silver blades shimmered in the sunlight streaming thro...

He was a walking arsenal with knives strapped to his armor at forearms, biceps, chest and back. Two smaller throwing ...

That was the last thing she saw. It was headed straight for her chest, a glittering blade, and she saw it in slow-mot...

Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway. It was snowing, freezing her slowly. She continued...

Rain poured down, next to her, the doorway shielding her. She clutched her red gown as she huddled down close to the ...

Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway. It was raining, her hair was plastered to her fac...

I am really nervous. It's there. Looming. And I feel like if I move it will know, and everything around me will crumb...

100 feet away I watched the smugglers struggle to get over the jagged stones, collapse onto the wet sand, expel salt ...

100 feet away Mulder knew the Sasquatch was waiting. This was it, the moment of truth. Jonas, the new field agent c...

I open my eyes and see a light. The sky is bright and everything seems dull. Thats how he felt. He was diagnosed with...

"I think we need to take the Easter eggs back," Gerald said. Louise looked up from placing an Easter bunny on a table...

OHMYGOSH A BABY CHICK! AHH!! IT'S A PICTURE OF PEOPLE SWIMMING ON AN IPHONE! WHAT DID PEOPLE DO BEFORE THE INTERNET...

The implant's biggest drawbacks were the headaches. The gear-man had assured her that would abate in time, but meanwh...

Geraldine, I'm serious give me that back, I don't have time for this... Because it's mine. Give it back now. It's rin...

Johnny, my boyfriend was aptly named. Laura, my dad's girlfriend called him 'The Pirate' because of his long dark cu...

by the time the cops can, I sneaked into an alleyway to avoid the cops but as soon as I ran around the corner of a ra...

Outnumbered. Jezebel stands on the ledge, hands fluttering up and down the slick chains. Outnumbered. She tries to br...

They were outnumbered and they knew it. J'nox lifted his six-shooter as he and his comrades prepared to defend the he...

I am looking out the window of my tiny house in Michigan and watching the snow pile up on the road. I won't be going ...

Giving in wasn't an option. The first time Ted died he didn't really notice, being in a full on berserk. One of his i...

Giving in wasn't an option, but there was little else she could do. "Ok, ok," she told the young galant with the sh...

"What's that, Daddy?" James hid a smile behind his hand and answered, "That's a telephone, sweetie. You put money in...

It's ringing. Ringing. Ringing. Ringing. STOP it from ringing! Karla never wanted to hear his voice again. Never wan...

A dry, sandy summer like this one. I had met him just a mile down, by the Shell gas station, his cowboy boots kicking...

The kids huddled around the tiny bundt cake, sipping juice from their plastic cups. A lone candle burned at the cen...

We have been in the bunker for weeks now sharing a room with me and my five brothers. Its hard to imagine our life be...

If I were a scientist I would invent a drug, which could bring me back to all of the feelings I was able to experienc...

Beatirix shuddered as a cold wind whipped across the stage, and she clasped her hat tightly to her head. Stage fright...

"Hello?" There was nothing on the other end of the line but silence. "Hey, can you here me? Is anyone there?" Martin ...

me and my sister have always been fighting. scince the day we could walk we always fought untill now. we were walking...