Stories posted 9/29/2007

  • Writings From Your Troubled Mind

    A dozen stories, counting drafts, is nowhere near enough. Some people have hundreds. But somehow you know yours are always mo…

  • Shark Inspired by a photo

    I slipped behind a wall, leaning against it for support and gasping for breath. He’d been a shark- one of those people that d…

  • Prelude: Migar's Story Mature

  • Prelude: West-men Mature Inspired by text

  • 2 shots Mature Inspired by text

  • Journal of the Lost

    Day one.
    The engine’s beyond gone. Communications, dead. What rations I managed to salvage are few. Vessel will serve as base…

  • She Never Got Along With Her Kindergarten Teacher (6) Inspired by text

    When fifth grade came, Jorden had been living in her room for the entire summer, and was probably the palest she had ever bee…

  • The One I Couldn't Control Inspired by text

    *The sun shines a bright patch onto the floor, upsetting the dust. A bird’s song floats in through the window. The painting o…

  • Sometimes I Wonder

    Sometimes I wonder—
    is it clear to you

    Why I act like a fool, and say what I do?
    Please, would you gaze
    Behind my sad blue…

  • Mole Inspired by text

    “It’s a method of measurement…” Nicòle shook her head. “It’s all very confusing. It is said that when used properly, one ca…

  • GSM[y6] Inspired by text

    Very much later in my life i would learn of what had happened to me before i was bitten. I would learn how i forgot the horro…

  • GSM[yc7] Inspired by text

    How one goes about it differs with every vampire. I personally take my prey from behind or the side. If you pull their hair, ...

  • A Song of Understanding

    It’s one of those corny, sappy poetic moments/You have never felt so wrapped in your own existence/So contained in your own…

  • Gunshots Mature

  • Our Cloud Inspired by a photo

    Our love may not be written in the stars, but it’s written in the clouds. Our love may not sparkle and shine, but it floats a…

  • Float On Inspired by text

    Does the duration of an event signify its worth? If love lasted a rain storm or a light summer breeze, would it be any less m…

  • White and Pure Inspired by text

    Our cloud is white and pure, so you won’t have to bring your umbrella. The sky around it is bright and blue. Our love will no…

  • Text Message Torture

    Nothing says ‘unrequited love’ louder than an unanswered text.
    And it leaves me wondering, unable to move from my bed, kept …

  • Cap'n Scally Wag & The Treasure Inspired by text

    The Vulcutur landed ashore, the crew nearly all dead.
    Captain Scally Wag hobbled ashore on his peg leg, Jolly Roger, his firs…

  • Those Red High-Heels

    I’m not a high-heeled kind of girl.

    Usually I prefer the ever-versatile tennis shoes, canvas so worn in places that it’s an …

  • Leda Inspired by text

    It was a normal day for him: wake up, think of Leda, make an offering to Demeter, milk the cows, think of Leda, hoe his field…

  • Waves of Dreaming

    Wake me up from waves of dreaming
    Where I’m stuck inside your mind
    Drifting off in clouds of consciousness
    Afraid that I’ll b…

  • Scandal Sheet

    My name is Ellroy J. Highsmith, I edit the tabloid know as the National Inquisitor.

    The current crop of Hollywood stars hate…

  • Winged and Forgotten Inspired by a photo

    The hill overlooked a sprawling yet quaint town, much like any other one. There was a relatively large church near the center…

  • Francis At Sea

    A Southward breeze crossed the foredeck and left Francis shuddering as he scurried aft. His course zigged and zagged as he ke…

  • A Conflicted Love

    “Devan.” Angel said. “Perfect. She’s perfect.”
    “Yes.” Natas was holding the newborn baby girl. Somehow, that worried Angel. I…

  • Railroads & Train Tracks Inspired by a photo

    Tears streaming down her face,she raced toward the railroad as fast as she could.She remembered the look on his face when her…

  • Grow Up, and Leave

    All her life she drowned herself in the masterpieces of other. They were her escape out of the boring mundane world in which …

  • All Good Things Must Come To An End Inspired by a photo

    He was one of them.
    I (Lisa) couldn’t get over it.
    He was one of them, a dragon.
    I’d always thought his passion was unusu…

  • The Forest Inspired by a photo

    A boy named Charlie, at the young age of nine, was walking through the forest trees, looking for his lost dog. He heard a bar…

  • A Dream

    As I stare into the horizon,
    it feels as if I’m floating

    Everything around me has disapeared,
    its like I’m in oblivion

    Al…

  • Shark (2) Inspired by text

    My walk home was uneventful, though the adrenaline still pumped madly in my veins. A lone streetlamp loomed nearby, flickerin…

  • All She'd Wanted Inspired by a photo

    All she’d wanted was a happy life. Instead, here she sits. Cold and alone. Wondering what to do and where to go.
    She’d starte…

  • A Quiet Din, A Screaming Hush Inspired by text

    Hushed voices snaked through the old house’s corridors, “Did you hear?” The boy looked to his lady and shook his head makin…

  • Being and Not Being Inspired by text

    Betrayal can be so powerful. Not as powerful as me. I lay here in the land of white, the realm of the sterile and sanctified;...

  • A Reality Inspired by text

    Horizon to horizon I see no ocean,
    as if the land could swallow me up

    There is no peace, no blank space,
    as the details of l…