"Too late, she realizes she made a mistake."
Her hands were shaking as she held the plastic. Her eyes were glued to the display. She was waiting for the result. Impatient. Every heartbeat passed like an hour. At her heartbeat rate, two minutes meant close to two hundred...
"Hung over, he tells his roommate about last night. Bad idea."
I wake up, my head still dizzy and a typical, soaring headache pulsing in my frontal lobe. Even the gentle shrieking of my bed as I roll over feels like stings right through my eardrums into my brain.'It has it's...
"After her funeral, he confesses his unhealthy obsession."
It was a gray, dark fall day. A menacingly thick layer of clouds hung in the sky. The air was loaded with electricity and thick with moisture as it had been for several days as if someone had forgotten to...
"Two souls in an emotional struggle."
Sunday, Feb 21 Dear diary, I'm aware that you are but an inanimate object, yet you've always been my best listener and my confessional. I know you can keep these secrets, so dark I wouldn't even entrust them to my...
"A lot like her, he gets troubled by his own emotional quarrels."
Sunday, Feb 21Dear Alexander,For years have we been pen pals and not afraid of sharing our darkest secrets in order to get them off our respective chest, even though we have not once sat face to face, let alone been...
"Once fulfilled, fantasies are no longer fantasies."
Jessica checked the time on her Breitling wrist watch. It was just a few moments before her husband Nathan would come home with their daughters Emily and Katie. It was his turn to pick them from school – and Jessica's...
"Some fantasies are not meant to be fulfilled."
A loud, thounderous knock on the door distracted Michael from the action on his TV screen. He hit the Pause button on his PS4 controller, slid his cordless headset off his ears to rest on his nape, and granted his...
“And that was the last one,” Big ol' Tom said, “now we've got ourselves a decent candle lighting again.”“Great,” replied Bethany, playing with the glass she had emptied for the third time. “May I ask you to fill that up...
I remember that fateful day in my junior year of high school when we were packing up our stuff at the end of the practical chemistry course. My lab partner tripped over a backpack someone had put in the way....
"He refuses to pay his daughter's college fee. She finds a way to raise her own money."
“Bye, Dad! I'm going to school,” my daughter shouted, “and don't stay in bed all too long, you hear me?” A few frustrated groans no one could hear left my throat before I turned around and tried to enjoy a...