Stories tagged with "pacing"

  • Prologue part VII Inspired by text

    Martin didn’t move. This had never happened before, and it was not in Leroy’s nature to change a tradition without speaking t…

  • Prologue part VI Inspired by text

    They had seen this many times before, but every time, it brought something new and frightening to their world which they knew…

  • Prologue part V Inspired by text

    He walked out onto the patio and stood directly behind his father. The townspeople were gathering outside the castle. There w…

  • Prologue part IV Inspired by text

    Martin had seen this happen before, but this time he was startled. “But Father, the signal hasn’t come! How can you possibly-...

  • Prologue part III Inspired by text

    He pushed open the curtain and walked slowly and deftly out onto the patio. Martin, slightly upset that his father had seemed…

  • Prologue part II Inspired by text

    “Father! You have another son! He was born an hour ago. Fit as a fiddle.” He couldn’t have wiped the childish grin off his fa…

  • "I heard something" Inspired by text

    Meet @ my house. need 2 talk. Was the text message I recieved from Beth as the final bell rang. Well that’s conventent. I…

  • What does He Want (New School) Inspired by text

    Whats the use and resorted back to her hommie self.

    She went down stairs kissed her grandmother who was making her favorite …

  • Something Quirky About Me [pens challenge] Inspired by text

    When I pat my baby to sleep I count “One-one thousand, two-one thousand” and pat on the beat. It usually takes until 200 befo…