Stories posted 6/12/2007

  • The Box Inspired by a photo

    “The frequency spectrum of a TV signal contains bursts of energy at harmonic multiples of the horizontal scanning rate. If yo…

  • Chain Lightning: Interlude I Inspired by text

    Sophia marveled at how beautiful the flowers were this summer. Flower boxes tumbling with blooms lined every main road of Mer…

  • We Three Inspired by text

    I realized that we have more definitive qualities, that are equally important for you to understand what makes us a three-som…

  • It All Started Upside Down Inspired by text

    It all started upside down. I guess that’s the only way to say it. Not that “upside down” is a bad place to be; just a trifle…

  • Random Haikus 001

    an eye that wont rest
    bloodshot and yearning for sleep
    stuck in this cycle

    -

    a snowflake falls down
    and rests upon a pi…

  • S&M Haikus 001 Mature

  • picture perfect memory Inspired by a photo

    Side by side. Moment by moment. The memories were drawn together and woven through the holes in my memory were rosebeds waiti…

  • Bad Poem One

    I am a well worn book with a tattered cover seeking a reader who will embrace me and love me despite my flaws.

    My spine is …

  • 50 Doors Inspired by text

    I realized I was hungry again. So for the first time, I sat down with my backpack to fully investigate its contents. I was mu…

  • Mrs. Popularity

    A car ride that would be thought of like you think of the devil, yea that was what i experienced as a girl moving from Calif…

  • Blackout

    “So how has your day been?” Evan asked. It wasn’t often that he got to meet his girlfriend Laura for lunch.

    “Oh, nothing ter…

  • I can't go yet Inspired by a photo

    I lay there, quietly, counting the last seconds of my life.
    My family sits on my bed, water flowing from their eyes.
    I guess …

  • Shiny Mudballs

    The pair boosted forward into the asteroid’s single inset airlock, pulling a cargo sled behind them. It eased into the habita…

  • The Dance of the Trees

    All you could hear was the wind;
    It was dancing with the trees.
    It’s a slow and graceful dance;
    That they dance so frequently…

  • Who am I?

    I am in my own world.
    A world of happiness, compassion, and joy.
    The aroma of flowers,
    is what I want to smell.
    The birds chi…

  • Joey and Sparks, part 2 Mature Inspired by text

  • I can't believe! Inspired by text

    You know I have always been fascinated at how attuned and sensitive people are to their names. Whenever someone hears their n…

  • Where am I going? Inspired by a photo

    I boarded the plane, not knowing what to expect.
    Am I going away? If I am, how far?

    Am I going to like it there?
    Am I going …

  • Summer

    Splashing in the waves
    Under water in a cave
    Me? i’m tanning in the sun
    My beach time is all about fun
    Except sometimes, whe…

  • Summer(revised version) Inspired by a photo

    Splashing in the waves
    Under water in a cave
    Most can find me tanning in the sun
    My beach time is all about fun
    Except someti…

  • The quiet moment Inspired by text

    What would we do if the moment, when the dance stopped, never began again?
    Would we even notice? Some yes, others, sad to say…

  • Stay

    Betrayed, belittled, between two opinions.
    So high, so low.
    So fast… so slow.
    Take this burden from me, finally let me be…

  • I can't smile anymore

    I can’t smile anymore.
    I can’t laugh off the hurtful jokes
    and pretend everything’s ok
    when it’s really not.
    My heart is sca…

  • Someone like you Inspired by a photo

    Hidden behind the doors of insecurity, closed off with the lock of fear, lies my love.
    No one may enter, only I hold the key….

  • Entry to Rome Inspired by text

    Rome was very different from what Anso was used to. Florence was a large enough city with all of the chaos and madness that w…

  • In The Photo And The Dream Inspired by text

    “They brought a guy in the hospital. He was…” Ernie struggled to find the right words. “You were there. You were a little f…

  • Gardens' Aloud Inspired by text

    Amilie still followed him. He turned on his heels, and his eyes were large and dark. “Leave me. I need to find the garden.” S…

  • Last Day Bets

    I’ve got one day to finish the bet. I have to go through with it. No matter what happens, i HAVE to FINISH the bet…

    BUT HO

  • The Dancing Always Starts Again Inspired by text

    When the dancing stopped, the dancers left the floor: sweating, happy, drunk off the heady mix of touching, being touched and…

  • Just Junk For Sale Inspired by text

    Here comes the first customer. I can just feel the tension.

    Don’t make me lie, don’t make me lie…

    “Good Afternoon, welc…

  • They Will Surely Pay Inspired by text

    Hallucinations again?! Damn, has it been that long since I took my meds? After I swallowed the small purple pill, I carefully…

  • Struggle Inspired by text

    He counted his money and he counted his time. They said he had 6 months if he was treated, maybe a month if not. If a month i…

  • Not Worth It

    Maryanne flipped her dark hair over her shoulder. “Well…” she drawled, “you guys just don’t do what I want to do at recess….

  • Illusion

    Waiting…. watching….wondering…
    Hourglass pouring grains of sand,
    each like an ancient second hand.
    A instance is an hou…

  • Waste My Life for You

    Some things you are never ready for. A death, a cheating boyfriend, exams. This would be one of those moments.

    “Sari, I love…

  • Dazed and Confused

    At four in the morning, I decided I was tired of my cactus. I mean, it played checkers with the blind kid all night long, and…

  • The Cafe

    Janis sat at the small table in the cafe, her burnt orange coffee mug cupped in her hands. Smooth Jazz played in the backgrou…

  • As the Pieces Fall Into Place Inspired by text

    Yeah, at first I was pretty ticked off, but after a while my anger transformed into something more… something like pride. F…

  • The Tempo Changes Inspired by text

    She was glad to have him back out on the dance floor. There was something special about this night, about him. Watching the l…