Stories tagged with "line"

  • Execution

    The line proceeded slowly and fitfully, like an engorged centipede that’s been tortured by a selfish five-year-old. Gray peop…

  • Trevor's New Plan Inspired by text

    I focused on the window sill. It didn’t have the answers to the unspoken questions in my head. It didn’t even care about how …

  • No More Clean Towels

    There is this sort of help desk in the men’s locker room at the gym. I can only imagine that it is the same for the women’s l…

  • A Trick and Some Questions Inspired by text

    I think I’m beginning to see. The trick is to let go. Let go of insecurities and fears. Don’t be reckless, just don’t be comp…

  • It Was Never Meant To Be! Part Three Inspired by text

    By the time Laura had come stumbling into my life I had bin working at a low end warehouse shop. She was rushing all over the…

  • zzomggg Inspired by a photo

    There was a line that divided us.
    Nobody dared to cross it.
    The invisible line that has been there since the beginning of pub…

  • Worth Waiting

    I shivered as a breeze blew across me. Just as the shivers stopped someone wrapped a wool blanket around my shoulders.

    “You…

  • One Liner Challenge

    Challenge:

    I always could never say the right thing when exiting a room.

    Good-bye is so cold and so un-meaningful. If you …

  • Hesitation Inspired by text

    Nina hesitated before reaching for the phone. Something stilled her hand, but she couldn’t put a finger on what it was. What …

  • Yellow Line, White Line

    I’m looking out at the five o’clock winter. The retreating sunlight pulls the yellow and orange away from my car window, leav…