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It was eerie sometimes, how a room filled with talking people would quiet up when he spoke. I felt like I was that room full of people then.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 18
“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
That first night in the Lodge, I had the strangest dream, though I didn’t seem to be asleep. A weight was pinning me down, as if a creature were crouching on my chest.
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: 15
There was always news, Antonio thought, as the announcer’s name started to boom out, and he was glad for that.
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
His mother once told him a story about how his granddaddy nearly gave her away.
- Length: 10 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.
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
You have to play the cards you're dealt
