Stories tagged with "hand"
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Open the Door
Please.
Let me in. Don’t close the door. I’m scared that I’m too weak to open it myself again. I don’t think I’ll be able t…
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The Most Difficult Decision

A man enters his home, with confidence and conviction.
For years, he has been making up his mind, and today – it is made up…
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Just Your Normal Farm
Not far from a very small town that was long forgotten was a farm. This farm was like any other farm that you might come acro…
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The Dumpster

“Tell me again, why we are dumpster diving?” Stanley asked.
“Too many nuts in the sack, Bruno”, Sam quipped.
Unlike Sam, t…
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And yet, it's not quite over...

She pulled out the hand and looked at it. The gun gleamed darkly in the sun, as if to encourage the light to run away from wh…
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Success and Failure

Huh. Well, that couldn’t be quantified as a success. Even by the most liberal of definitions.
He looked at the dead body. Th…
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An Envelope

She inspects every corner of the tattered gray envelope. Its story is full, this envelope, of a long journey and rough handli…
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Paper Trail

She heads out the door, and he stares after her, mouth half open, vaguely aware the phone is not ringing. She is back in the …
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A False Oath

“But…” he pulls out the other hand holding the other gun. “Why do you even want one?”
“It was buy one, get one free,” she …
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The Rest

Finally? She said ‘Finally’, as if she expected it.
“What do you mean? Where’s the rest of him?” he blurted madly.
“The res…