The child sobbed softly in her arms as she tried to reassure him that everything would be alright. The shattered glass crunched loudly under her feet as she and the boy moved slowly through the otherwise silent building. Noticing a slightly opened door at...

glciii

30 Jul 2013

Beloved

What are you willing to do for the one you love?

This short takes place during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse in the year 2053. the first year of The Dead War.  BELOVED: Dead War Series Flash Fiction By George L. Cook III Grover looked on as the naked female zombie gnawed on the femur of her...

Survivor

30 Jun 2013

He Can Always Find You

"Why?" Pat was wondering to herself. Why had she ever posted that picture? It was only a photo of her face, not anything sexy or like that. But it must have been enough to cause something bad to happen to him. Now she was continually watching, always awar...

GeekToAuthor

19 Jul 2012

Temporal Enforcers

Two scientists complete their time machine and find out what keeps the universe in order.

Dr. Zach Robertson looked at his watch like an excited child. Some people say he was still a child, but the 26 year old genius showed the adults what that child could do when he received his doctorate in quantum physics at the age of 15. Through all the l...

jill7190

8 Mar 2012

New Beginnings

A thrilling thriller in the making

Crying is not an emotion I tend to share; I generally keep myself to myself and even then do little to deal with them. My best friend Chloe, God rest her soul, had departed this world as if in a puff of smoke. I felt aggrieved that I had not spent more ti...

MissAdventure

7 Dec 2011

Shifting Sands

Laura crosses the spectre wall into the strange dune fields beyond, but can she find her way back?

Crisp, brittle dune grass scratched against my jeans as I hiked up the slope. Molly followed behind on her leash, head down, her soft, floppy ears drooping even more than normal. I reached the top of the dune and scanned the horizon; nothing but more dune...

courage2bfree

9 Oct 2011

Destiny

A woman's nightmare turns into reality

Destiny Teresa walked dreamily along the narrow winding roads of St James’s Square in London on her way to lunch with a friend. She put one foot out into the road at Duke street without looking. A horn blew and she looked up, startled, pulling her foot ba...

Katy

10 Oct 2010

Arcadian Lane -PROLOGUE-

I wish I'd never gone down that road...

Thump…. Thump.... Thump…Thump. If only my heart could beat a little quieter, a little slower or maybe, just fucking maybe, stop altogether. Maybe, just maybe they wouldn’t hear me, with any luck, my footsteps would be gone, my existence washed away with t...