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Was she a witch? I don’t know. And I suppose no one really knew for sure. It’s just that she looked so much like a witch I guess she had to be.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: 15
I wondered if there was a used-teeth store I could recommend to get these guys geared up and ready for caramel apple season?
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: U
Joe had a bad feeling he’d need his gun before the night was over.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 15
These things do not happen to the dead, she told herself.
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
“It’s always the same to begin with,” I said. “I’m on the beach. The sand is hot, the sun is bearing down. It makes the sand look white, like snow.”
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Genre: Fiction
Yesterday’s air sucked out, tidied and smoothed for re-use.
But in my head that summer before we moved into the town was yellow and purple and red and supremely happy
Truda paused at the gate and tried to calm her racing heart.
He sat on the bench. Their bench. And watched the birds. And remembered.
He dances maida maida, like a butterfly around the candle.
She said she was crying tears of happiness. That’s when I learnt that happiness could make you cry too.
It was Christmas the first time they made love; he said it felt like coming home
