Everything Happens For A Reason
“Jimmy, shut the chickens in would you? Their coop door is still open.” shouted Jimmy’s mother from three rooms away, while he sat in front of the TV in the living room like a vegetable. “That’s dad’s chore!” he hollered back, just as his mother came into the room, looking disappointed at his lazy appearance. […]
6’3 Slave Master
You wake up to find yourself laying on the ground in the woods and you have no recollection of how you got there to begin with. You slowly stand up but it hurts, you look down to see your left ankle is bruised. You start to slowly walk despite your bruised ankle to try to […]
Dinner’s Ready
The fork scraped across the glass plate. The room filled with the smell of cooked meat. She dabbed her mouth with the stained napkin. White napkins were a mistake. “Dinner was delicious,” she said, breaking the silence. “Thank you for cooking tonight.” “Of course,” he said. She stood up, collecting the two plates from the […]
Horrors Illuminated By The Moon
In the dead of night there was a loud crash right out outside Maria’s bedroom window. Even though she was on the second floor in her apartment complex the sudden noise that woke Maria up rattled her to the core then when she fully woke up her fear turned to anger. She slowly kicked her […]
Learning Death
D’marques wakes up anxious before the day has a chance to even start, because he knows what his repetitive weekday schedule that he has practiced for two years now has in store for him. Starting his day off by getting ready as if he was a normal high school student; brushing his teeth, washing his […]
Thud
Dust loomed on the photo frames’ clustered atop the ornate onyx mantle. Dust loomed over the collection of stone gargoyles in the foyer. Dust loomed over the empty Chinese food containers, slumming it in darkened crevices in the kitchen. The only thing the dust didn’t loom over was the small girl gallivanting through the dilapidated […]
Violet Eyes
My wife loved me, but not the normal type of love like a wife should. Her love was more like the love that a cult member has for their leader. I know she loves me. She follows me everywhere, forgives me for things most would find unforgivable, and not once has she ever hurt me […]
The Stranger
April 4, 2019 I went to drop the kids off at school and saw a man that I had never seen before looking at me. He was an attractive man so I didn’t mind him looking, but it was kind of strange considering the fact that I didn’t know him and I didn’t see him […]
