Stories tagged with "cage"

  • Her Cage Inspired by text

    I was banging on the cage. Banging, and banging, and banging, until my hands hurt. I paused and looked at them, turning them …

  • Her Scream Inspired by a photo

    There she is. I watch her as she walks in the door and sits down in the third row all the way near the wall, looking at every…

  • Velvet III Inspired by text

    “What’s the matter?” She said. He shook his head.

    “Really,” she said, inching herself over to him, “What are you doing here…

  • Meal At The Zoo Inspired by a photo

    “STUPID LION!” “You’re not scary!!!!” “Nanananananaaaa!”

    I saw them. Those tasty, crunchy, sticky children, looking through …

  • i dont call this living. Inspired by a photo

    perhaps…
    perhaps there is a chance
    for life
    penned up here-
    in this cage

    like the ones
    you use for
    breeding domesticated
    ...

  • Breathe Inspired by a photo

    I want to breathe. Take a moment, and just let the air flow in. Locked in this cage is not where I want to be. I want to expe…

  • Face Like a Nightmare Inspired by text

    I dropped the mirror on the table and leaped up.

    “Alfred!”

    Running to the window, I looked out, but there was nobody in the…

  • My Own Good Inspired by text

    My own good. Ha! If I had a ducat for every time I heard my mother say that… Well, I’d be rich as Croesus but it wouldn’t d…

  • A Cage

    A cage
    Not made of any metal
    but stronger than any prison.
    This small cage witholds prisoners that want out
    They bang and h…

  • The Course of Human Events

    I live in a cage.

    Twice a day, Master comes to feed me and refresh my bedpan, and if I’m good he’ll give me dessert too. I’m…