Stories tagged with "van"

  • Safari Mishap (invisible's challenge) Inspired by text

    And that’s when I saw them coming right for me!

    Maybe I shouldn’t have brought beef jerky on the safari. It made me thirsty …

  • Meeting the Family Inspired by text

    The park provided many photo opportunities. I sent dozens of photos from my phone to her father. He texted back the go ahead …

  • Locating the Child Inspired by text

    I’d been to libraries, hospitals, and adoption agencies, in cities all over the country. I’d knocked on doors, plastered up s…

  • Hit in the Dark Inspired by a photo

    Dad and I are unloading the van of my sister’s stuff, she is moving in with us. I see movement out of the corner of my eye an…

  • Van Mantras Target. Inspired by text

    For the secound time in a week, Van Mantra had a gun thrust at his head.

    “You are one of them?!”

    Cried Stephen, alerting hi…

  • Hideout Inspired by text

    The phone was wrenched from her grip without warning.The boy coughed,attempting to make his voice sound older.

    “Pay me one m…

  • Kidnapped Inspired by text

    It was a chilly morning, Mrs. Learella Kingston took a bite of her onion bagel, put her pink bathrobe on and went out into he…

  • The Russian Inspired by text

    Derrik’s cane echoed off the alleyway’s walls. The random drips and plops of the dank water were amplified in his ears as he …

  • The Moon

    What a stupid idea. I shouldn’t have come. I stared moodily out the back window of the van at the moon, attempting unsuccessf…