Stories tagged with "earthquake"

  • Thunder Part One

    There was a crash and a bright light and like a thousand tiny little beads of water. The windshield wipers swiped back and fo…

  • The Birds Know All

    I woke up, feeling like there were cotton balls stuffed up my head. I was immediately reminded of why I was awoken.

    It sound…

  • The Final Countdown Inspired by text

    “So, run out of ideas yet?” I asked the doctors as they stood around my bed. They took their eyes of the heart monitor and lo…

  • Secret

    Have you ever had a secret?

    One that smolders, burns, fights inside of you.
    It twists your insides up and unwinds them like …

  • Earthquake Inspired by text

    I put Davincent behind me protectively, racking all the minds around. I felt one shy away from me. Bingo. I tried to clue int…

  • It Was an Epic Catastrophe Inspired by text

    In 2045, a huge earthquake, centered in Japan, rocked the Pacific and most of Asia (I learned that it even reached France, bu…

  • Kashmir Earthquake, 2005

    Underneath our heels and the tiny bones of our feet, the bones of the earth heave and scream as a horse strains against a he…

  • An Earthquake Inspired by text

    She wasn’t in school the next day. I was the only one who knew where she was though. Melody told me that she had some importa…

  • 7.2

    I was standing behind the counter, alphabetizing the video returns. The shop was fairly empty. Just me, my boss and a custome…

  • Clover High: The Basement Inspired by text

    I don’t know how long we waited for Snap, it felt like hours. Finally we heard pounding on the door. Frederick yanked it open…