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• The Devil's Embrace (Alexa's Writing Prompt)

  by Tad Winslow 21 days ago

  Twenty minutes later the glass of water shatters at my feet.
  The clear and cold rubble spikes my toes and streaks my
  glossy…

• Vladimir Allan Ostrong, Jacky's Rebellious Descendant [Nirvana Acheived]

  by Mask By The Moon about 1 month ago

  “Vladimir, I was thi—” I started, only to be cut off.

  “Sarah, please? Bradley?”

  “Fine, Bradley,” I spat, wrinkling my nos…

• Tossed

  by NightMaiden 2 months ago

  “I didn’t do anything to betray or otherwise jeopardize our settlement!” I yelled, my throat feeling quite hoarse from all …

• Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, What is My Greatest Fault of All?

  by Stovohobo 6 months ago

  One day, I looked in a mirror
  And whatever did I see?
  All of my failures, all my faults
  Looking straight back at me.

  Lust la…

• Memories Thick As Dust

  by Stovohobo 7 months ago

  I frowned as the dilapidated shack of a house drew into view. Emilia stepped on the brakes, turned into the overgrown drivewa…

• Oh, Fudge.

  by Stovohobo 7 months ago

  “I swear, the pilots were jiggling the controls around just to scare us,” I said as Emilia and I stepped into the San Fransis…

• Such an Angel

  by Stovohobo 8 months ago

  “Emilia,” I began, “I do get to choose how you die. But I can’t decide what you become or…where you go after death. Only …

• Coup de Coupe

  by uselessness 10 months ago

  She was a mean one, that car.

  Smooth lines, curves in all the right places, flat black paint job with pinstripe trim like sc…

• Sworn to Secrecy

  by Yeah Write! about 1 year ago

  It was all just a charade, one that I participated in daily how ever tedius and futile it may have been. This was just anothe…

• Hard Work

  by Howie Amourscow about 1 year ago

  Work is penance. Penance, to repent. This is hard work, hard penance for a lost soul like me. You dig so far into the muddy b…