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• Carnival Piano [Scavenger Hunt Challenge]

  by g2 (la pianista irlandesa) 17 days ago

  Her new KEMB3-M1983 robot, complete with it’s Cheshire Cat “grin,” insisted on being called Zoe. It (she) offered tea thirtee…

• Substandard Seating

  by Fyora Cartagan 2 months ago

  Daniel sighed as he read the paper. Why had he even bothered? He should’ve known she would respond that way, everyone else di…

• Chris's Interview

  by Apostrophe 4 months ago

  Chris comes home from his interview, it is almost noon when he shuts the door.

  He places his keys in the bowl by the door a…

• Gold in the Fire

  by Alexis DeHearts 5 months ago

  Tom searched frantically through the burning room. The words kept repeating in his mind “never break a promise“

  “Come on, ...

• Safe for a Promise

  by Alexis DeHearts 5 months ago

  After much straining, they had only gotten the door open enough to see Jenny trying to grab something out of the flames that …

• Out of the Paper, Into the Train

  by Alexis DeHearts 5 months ago

  “How’s your paper look?” Tom asked, glancing past the bold headlines at his friend John.
  “Some controversial playwrite was ki…

• Wake up Todd

  by RunningWithScissors 6 months ago

  Todd stopped dead in his tracks, not quite registering the clean, well groomed, smiling man placed first in line in the dead …

• There Was a Collapse

  by [pens&feathers] 6 months ago

  I don’t get a call, I read it in the paper. And I never read the paper.

  But, there you are, splashed all over the front page…

• Lost Todd

  by RunningWithScissors 6 months ago

  It all started in Todd’s very early senior year of college. While his fellow peers became rebels and last minute chaotics tha…

• Shepherd Runs For President (post-it challenge)

  by Laine P. Grey 7 months ago

  Nona awoke to find a note stuck to her forehead. It could only mean one thing: Shepherd was doing something drastic.
  _Nona, I…