Fiction
The Astonishing Origins of 6 Common Compound Words
Most compound words work just fine separately or together: Friends of both Hay and Stack might enjoy watching the football game with Hay one day, attending Stack’s book club meeting the next, and going to the joint Haystack karaoke gathering the following night. Just as acquaintances of Shoe and Lace are used to seeing them out and about on their own, or chatting with the pair of them at the Shoelace key party in Santa Cruz. Ugh, why the hell did I make them swingers?! That was an insane choice! I knew this metaphor was a bad idea.
By Rakesh Toshniwal `2 years ago in Chapters
To Tell Or Not To Tell
I first wrote this novella in five parts for the Confessions community where it did not get a lot of reads. I was hoping it would do better in the Chapters community so I had it moved here. And now I am creating an index story so that all the parts can be accessed in one place.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Chapters
The Silver Serpent Society. Chapter Three.
I slam my fist on the briefing room table, rattling the stale coffee cups and pastry crumbs littering its surface. This ragged bunch of misfits in rumpled dress blues is my so-called task force - assembled to share intel and finally solve the Nyx Vesperra case that has cast its dark shadow over my career for almost two decades.
By Tanya Doolin2 years ago in Chapters
Violent - Chapter 1
The tops of tall buildings could be seen over the small roofs of the ones that surrounded the little alley Roger called home. Some of those buildings far off scraped the sky, down here in the alley and the street it led to, they were never given much thought. The people living down here preferred to stare up at the sky. Do they look at the clouds? Enjoy the blue or the warmth of the sun? Why look up at something so far gone you cannot hope to reach? Well, if that’s what people thought of these sky-gazers. Then, the same question can be asked about staring at those buildings in the city. Why look at the tall buildings? At the skyscrapers? When those here had as much chance of being accepted in those buildings as being up in the sky.
By Francisco Reyes2 years ago in Chapters
The Kiss Collector
The Kiss Collector Anna took the photography course as an elective at school, learning how to position the camera, hold it level - which honestly is harder than you think - and of course the development. The developer, the acidic stop bath, and fixer were what she mumbled at me after a few weeks into our sophomore year. I was not so obsessed with capturing an image, preferring to keep them in memory as my own. But the idea of flashing a light at a page and it leaving its mark only to be brought and flushed out later was such a fascinating idea to me. Who cares what the image contained. Look at what remained of the light long after it left.
By G. Douglas Kerr2 years ago in Chapters
