Stories tagged with "tragedy"

  • Smoke on the Water [Music Challenge: song by Deep Purple] Inspired by text

    We all came out to Montreaux, the gaunt elder of a dozen tribes. He’d been around so long, we’d all forgotten which tribe h…

  • Hope Inspired by a photo

    She was nothing but a child.

    She was so innocent and what happened to her was so very terrible.

    Almost to this day I stil…

  • Summer Love Inspired by a photo

    The sun is really bright this mourning, McKenzie thought to her self as she raised out of her bed. She walked into the kitche…

  • Ablaze

    From the opaque gleam of the windows reflecting the veins of lightning crashing through the sky, a sudden burst of luminescen…

  • Our Story Inspired by text

    - Hospital -

    Hope sat by Thomas’ bedside; he had several third degree burns, and it was going to take more than a month of …

  • The Letter Inspired by text

    _It all started on one dusk of August, 1962. It was a hot evening, and I still remember the taste of Mom’s cheesecake on my m…

  • I Wish Inspired by text

    Hope sat there, clutching Thomas as if he were her last life – line.

    The tears soaked through her dusty cheeks, ran down he…

  • A Modern-Day Mulan

    Hope struggled through the wreckage, her uniform charred and singed in many places, leaving patches of raw, red skin. Her eye…

  • When Things Change Fast

    Things changed fast when Dad was killed while flying formation over the North Sea. The Air Force sent us home 3 days later.
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  • Chapter Unknown -- Tailspin Inspired by text

    Kiley felt sick. She was going to throw up. Sarah had done it this time. Something that Kiley couldn’t fix for her, something…