I remember that I'd been called to Mr Lockwood's office. 11pm seemed an odd time, but I assumed it must've been urgent. I bumped into Matthias Sandström on the way. Apparently he'd been summoned too. He said I was an idiot for not putting a coat on, and...
The dull, methodical beeping of the medical equipment was enough to send anyone to sleep. But Gerard's milky blue eyes remained open, staring intently at one of the screens. He had only watched the other projections when instructed to, but he would alwa...
She was perplexed and in pain she had spent a great deal of time writing a love story to her man and he had said nothing about it She was waiting on the terrace in her pretty white frilly lace dress sure to please him when he arrived home from work that...
I wrote this before but now its more real more real than ever before the white mist came by one night and scared me right to the core I gulped hard and fear gripped me as the mist went to and fro and before it changed direction I ducked down way below ...
A place where it's darkNobody knows how to findInformation can be markedCriminals lurk behindThere's no way to checkHow do you get thereIt's really quite high techAll we are is quite awareSinister people buying informationStealing our identitiesCausing lo...
In the Twilight hours I struggle with my words So wanting to scream them out and let them know what I need to do to live. Those words are part of me a part of who I am closing those doors brings pain as those words they need to be Shutting down that...
Henry Walker Wainscot stood leaning against the stone wall in the foyer of his new dorm while waiting for his mom. They were going to have lunch in the cafeteria, then explore the city. Henry had never really been to Boston, having grown up in Western Mas...
Backwards.. I start from the night Sleep walking from the fridge, backwards… Back in bed, in the blankets I sleep eight hours back, I’m setting my alarm Shower Shower before I sleep right? Looking at the floor, blood stains dissolving, what the fuck happe...
“Hey Andrew,” Jeremy began. “You know, when you said you had exams to study for, I thought you meant you were going to study for them after our little outing.” Andrew rolled his eyes. Sarvanez knew that they were friends, or at least, they knew each...
Sarvanez shifted in her chair. The corset pinched into her waist and it was every bit as uncomfortable as it looked. How do the women here wear these every single day? She thought to herself, feeling irritated. Still, in being a good visitor, she had agre...
Julianna December 18, 2012– Just after midnight I sat tucked into the small window seat of my bedroom and burrowed under the blanket, savoring the warmth it gave me. With the lights off, the flurries of snow could just be seen in the dark. The weather...
He just could not fathom it. It just looked all wrong. In the darkness the spider's web glowed in the moonlight. But it was wrong somehow. He thought that there were to be too many concentric cirlces, too closely woven together towards the centre, it wa...
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900 ***** "The Queen is Dead! Long Live the King!" What more important change than the death of a sovereign. At least, for the nation. Perhaps not for individuals. Th...
I watched my copper mailbox dangle from the door of my bar through the blurs of my windshield wipers. The rubber gripped the glass, not a forgotten drop or streak. They were new. The car was new. The mailbox was rusted and tarnished. It was Sunday, I...
John held perfectly still as he leaned against the tree. The deer moved cautiously out of the trees onto the meadow. First, a doe with her fawn stepped out. Looking all around, walking sort of jerk, jerk, look. Finally, the rest followed, last of all came...
