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....

"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...

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...

"there was blood on my pillow and a noose in my heart" These country singers were getting downright moros, good thou...

There was blood on my pillow. It's 6 a.m. and there is blood on my pillow. I started to try and remember what happene...

Whitechapel 1888. There was blood on my pillow again this morning when I awoke. My landlady has already been asking ...

As I look into the sky, the moon rises from its slumber showing its beauty in the night sky. The stars sit close to t...

"Looking at things changes us so it is impossible to look at anything the same way twice," said Foley. I did a double...

The Moon would never be the same again. Not after the Settlers came. See, we had claimed the Moon. Put our USA flag o...

Signs were put up on the wall, all help is lost . The war took the lives of many great, respectable people but this w...

Becky hoped Tom saw what she had written before her teacher did. Mr. Smith was notoriously tidy about the things in ...

I never liked autumn leaves as you do. I watched you look at trees, the delight on your face intensified when you clo...

It was her masterpiece. Jutting out of the water, everyone around could see what she'd created - what *she* had crea...

His dive, performed in front of the small, half-drunk dinner party, was perfect in his mind. He'd had a few martinis ...

For some reason, I couldn't stop staring at the picture. It was... gorgeous, sure. The colors were somewhat exaggerat...

Absent. The perfect word to describe the situation. Paul and Maria Strickland sat at their kitchen table eating brea...

The episodes were getting more frequent. I'd forget where I was. Friends looking at me strangely as I carried on conv...

He was absent. Again. The kid would only show up on test days - on which he performed well enough. But that wasn't th...

"No parking anytime" read the sign on the tall, black, iron gate. "Well, if I'm going to break the rules, I guess th...

There once was a house that no child or adult dared enter, the house was known to be haunted. Even though that the ho...

Joshua parked in front of the iron gate, irritated at this sign, just one of many from his absentee father. He was ne...

I'm in love with a robot. I know, I know, that sounds strange. But I am. It's name, or at least the name I gave it, i...

I am in love with a coffee machine. A robot that makes coffee. I am giddy about it my mornings are filled with percol...

Golden skin glowed in the afternoon sun, revealing a fine tracery of pale blue at the inside of the wrist. Lips, lus...