Talia hated cleaning up at the end of the day. The scrubbing and tidying was endless. Her slender hands moved rhythmically against the...

I wrote this as part of a short story competition. The constraints were no more than 2500 words, it needed to be a suspense story,...

Ava drifted along the side of the road. Not quite aimless but there was no urgency in her steps either. The air was calm, though the...

Isaac sat tense, leaning into the phone as the pause in conversation dragged on. “Why did you leave?” “What do you mean?” Melody asked....

"I guess I just don't understand why you let it get to you so much. I mean, its been years. You're grown up, you have a life, you...

"It'll be here waiting for you." The line repeated in her head like a well rehearsed chorus. But that was the catch, wasn't it? Nothing...

It was such a relief to strip off those heavy shoes. Amazing how such a small thing could end up weighing so much given enough time and...

The sign said Windows and Doors. She supposed they had to come from somewhere, someone out there was making these things, but somehow it...

He remembered her in fragments, like pieces of a broken stained glass window. Each moment distinct, separate, colored with its own...

The car wheels droned on against the asphalt. Their steady tone had a calming effect on her mind, seeming to dull the edges of the world...

“I’m sorry sir, but we can’t accept foreign currency here. If you want to complete your purchase you’ll have to go down to a bank or the...

She screamed at the house whenever she passed by. The kind of scream that promised violence, the kind of scream that mattered. She used...

He wasn't sure how long he had been there, it felt like maybe an hour but the stiffness in his body told him it had likely been much...

She was immortal, like all 7 year olds are immortal. That peculiar blend of unexamined courage and egoless will that puts to shame any...

She remembered him surrounded in white flowers. There weren't any, she knew. That field was all grass, nothing to flower at all. She knew...

It was another one of those little towns you ran into on your way between one place and another. Main street was just a spot along the...

Having a bakery on the same block as her apartment was going to be the death of her. Or at least her willpower. Every day she passed a...

He hated how it was always contextual, the world and every bloody thing in it. Some deep part of him craved stability, needed there to be...

There was blood in the sink. There had been blood in the sink for the last few weeks now, though she tried not to think too much about...

The name said Lois. He immediately thought of the old superman movies; the campy ones with the bad flying effects from before CGI...