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...
The daring were punished.
The daring were punished. Oh, how they were punished. For their transgression of assumption: public mockery. For thei...
The daring were punished. It seemed almost contradictory, but that was how They wanted it. Ever since the capital-t-...
"What are you laughing about Jes?", inquired Sally. "I just had the most wonderful dream", replied Jes. "Can you ...
The building I lived in was old, rusty around the doorknobs, the 14th floor was still half under construction. The we...
My word muscles are stiff. My writing bones ache. The prose reads like a bruise. I burst bored air through my lips, ...
I lay siege to it. This was war and a fast and furious assault seemed the surest course. There was a front to push fo...
They walked hand-in-hand over the foot bridge, surrounded by tourists. "This reminds me of the Great Wall of China,...
The wall is the place most people choose on their own. You come for a day or a week and it's never to see the sights....
The wall is the place most people choose on their own. You come for a day or a week and it's never to see the sights....
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...
I stare at the row of perfect houses resting on the perfectly manicured lawns beneath a perfectly blue sky by perfect...
I found the ring on the bowling green. Slipped in my back pocket for later as I was in the middle of the tournament. ...
Set down the light set it down anywhere The pure clean of a random weeknight on the coach staring at the white ceili...
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...
Idyllic farmhouse? Well, appearances can be deceiving, I suppose. If the For Sale sign in front had said, "Abandon a...
The day it burned down my mother locked herself in her room and wouldn't take any visitors. "Mom, come out of there...
The zombies beat upon the door to the church. The flowering vines clung to the brink walls like dead man's fingers, w...
I step back and look. It seems complete. Ms. Johnson comes over and looks at it. She barely glances before saying, "...
He stared at his reflection in the water for a long moment. He studied his eyes (the same dark brown that they had al...
The world was so close to perfect, he hated having to point out the flaws to the designer. It was his least favorite ...
Down six steps and under the fire escape. Don't knock on the door, follow the hall to the end. Go through the curt...
He had her in his sights. The moment he saw her, he zeroed in on his prey. Her grace, her beauty... she stood apart f...
Holographic women are all the rage. Easier than humans to be around. No talking back or gorging on chocolates to ruin...