This three hundred and sixty nine word reflection was initially named 11:11:11. I see it as a renewal while others may receive the words as destruction. ~~~~~~~*******~~~~~~~ Rivulets of steamy sweat cascade ever downward, pooling under arms, breasts, and small dimpled areas while, yet, a cool breeze caresses the fevered brow. I’ve known this moment. [...]
The light of early dawn woke him as its first rays caressed his closed eyes. Today was an auspicious one for him. It was the day when he would set out on his inevitable journey. All his life he had been preparing for this very day. He wasn’t filled with dread over it, far from [...]
It was quite bright and tranquil the day it begun, snow lazily falling and blanketing the world in a soft downy blanket of fluff, drawing a white curtain over all the ugliness of the world. However, there was a dark storm brewing somewhere, deep within the breast of one soul. For some reason he came [...]
The day I decided that I was moving out of my mom’s home I was12 years old. I had listened to an old Bill Cosby song called “That’s Life.” My gift was never my singing. It was always my poetry and short stories. So it was only natural I joined the school paper when I [...]
To all intent and purpose the Earth is dead, uninhabitable. Every living thing across the world perished when the planet was hit by a massive solar storm, rupturing the atmosphere and boiling the planet’s surface. Humanity, with the exception of a handful of individuals, who saw the catastrophe coming, died out. Those few unknowingly irradiated [...]
The circumstances are in my favour. Overcast skies and marsh gas mixed with early morning mist and plenty of cover. I scan the derelict house with my binoculars. I know my quarry is holed up somewhere inside; all the signs I have seen tracking him here, point to it. He is tired, worn out and maybe [...]
I groan in the darkness. I don’t know who I am, or even what. I don’t remember anything. My mind is as black as my prison and my head aches, pounding with each rush of scorching blood through my body. I shrug my shoulders and twist my body, but cold things press and jab into [...]
To Malcolm, Gwen completed his world. They had met on an internet dating site five years earlier. Now they were happily married. Malcolm worked for a major IT consultancy firm where he spent his time solving software programming protocol issues, often working into the night. Like most workaholics his job had consumed his every waking moment. [...]
I stood in line at the bank like I always do the last Friday of the month to deposit the cash I made from moonlighting as a waitress. This was the last place I wanted to be after suffering through a day of teaching teenagers with nonexistent parents and working for a redneck principal. I [...]
I dream of white letters on a flat screen. They mock me in my sleep and haunt my waking hours. I know that somewhere in the unreachable heavens, the word gods are plotting mischief against me. They have to be. No one could be this incredibly unlucky. It defies all mathematical probabilities. Either that, or [...]
