Whenever I heard that all familiar sound of the door opening I would get so excited. Molly had taken her two young sons to soccer practice, while I…

In the bathroom of the first party, the appetizer house, an orange candle burned on the windowsill, its weak flame struggling to survive. Lori, wine-buzz settling...

Maisie realised her kisses kill when she was about ten. She was at the playground with her friend Henry. They ran over the see-saw together…

She watched him. He seemed to be way ahead of his opponents, but it wasn’t how fast he worked or his skill in slicing, dicing and cubing foods that she saw…

A new family had arrived at the street. It was a nuclear one. Father, mother, daughter and son. They, along with 2 other men and the...

It was a gorgeous late summer evening at Fish Cove. The sky was tinted with beautiful variations of coral-pink-orange-red as the sun prepared to set…

We live in a culture of records; every expression saved in some file, stored on some server. I see the beauty of the transient, the mortal…

Ashley turned off the busy interstate highway. She drove down one long overpacked road after another. Ten miles took nearly thirty minutes to reach…

Time travel. Finally, we had achieved it. “What happens if I go back in time and kill my grandfather?” I had asked my professor, who I had assisted…

Every night Chloe visits me in my dreams. Flames surround my bed, smoke all around. Her eyes look at me, lifeless. She’s charred and bloodied all over…