Excerpt

Hotel Queenie
The bathroom adjacent to the dining area simply was not clean enough. Obviously the hotel staff should be more attentive to detail. Queenie was sure of this as she separated the crisp squares of toilet tissue, placing them gingerly on the seat of her throne. There was nothing actually wrong with the bathroom, though she found herself in need of sanitizing nonetheless. “Disgusting!” she muttered, her face contorted as she went about this unpleasant task. Despite her whisperings of despair, she enjoyed the moments of solitude, meticulously folding each square of paper. It was when she was most at peace. Once folded into a square or rectangle, the torn tissue could accommodate a need. The immediate need was to cover the toilet seat of the downstairs bathroom, which was located in the main washroom of the hotel. The hotel was a very special place, indeed!
By M.3 years ago in Fiction
GREDGZA
Everything was black and quiet. For a while, I thought I was dead, until a static ringing, piercing through my subconsciousness woke me up. Then, HAZE. My eyesight -it's blurry. I can't make sense of anything around me except the lights; round balls of bright light, illuminating the roof of whatever this place is. It lasts for a while, then DARK, my eyelids shut against my eyes. I blink in what felt like a thousand times in an attempt to ward off the blurriness, I open my eyes, it's still bright and they hurt now but it's clearer than before. I want to get up, but I can't. I feel bound to what l'm sitting on. I look to my right and a man sits there looking at me. I try to talk but nothing seems to come out. I want to speak, but I can't. He just sat there looking at me while I struggled. I look back to my front and I see a person walking down the aisle of this thing. They were collecting little pieces of paper from each seat.
By I writer3 years ago in Fiction
A Change In The Tracks
MAMA Molly scrunched her face in such a way that her freckles seemed to melt together. Her eyelids half opened only to close again as she let out a few heavy breaths. I wished she could remain in this peace, oblivious to the world around her. I dreaded the explanation that would be due when she awoke.
By Nina A3 years ago in Fiction
You're waiting on a train
"You're waiting on a train." A man awakens. Blind to why he awoke where he did. Groggy actually. This man rubs his eyes and groans from the tired biting at his heels. Laughter calls out from beyond.
By J.D. Brooks3 years ago in Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird book review
Some people say that if you've ever felt hopeless in your life, you might as well read To Kill a Mockingbird. Translated into more than 40 languages, this Pulitzer Prize-winning world-famous book has been enduring in the decades of its bestsellers, once affecting 50 million families around the world.
By Derasom3 years ago in Fiction
Neighbor asks to get rid of the family dog so that her children can play in the homeowner's garden...ending relief
Such oddball neighbors, it really is too much to meet one ...... let alone ...... six ...... Two days ago in the forum brush to a foreign netizen's posting, let me hear the sound of the three views broken ......
By Evan Tao3 years ago in Fiction
L is For...
As the rich light of the golden hour began to creep into the corners of the studio apartment, Norah flopped down on the sofa. Six hours of almost uninterrupted unpacking later (not including the regular stops to lose herself in TikTok, of course) and the apartment was looking a little more like someone lived in it.
By Abi Alexander3 years ago in Fiction
My work
Things to the end of the interview that day from me on the way home, actually said the interview was virtually did not even see, surface was about in the afternoon, the result to the company for more than half an hour after the HR told me head go to the bathroom, the toilet door lock is broken by the lock, and other property to repair, also don't know what time can come out, and there is a will behind head, The interview had to be cancelled...
By ails3 years ago in Fiction
The Doomed Sister
“Please.” She stared back with solemn eyes, her hair sweeping over her face. But she didn’t break eye contact with me, and I refused to do the same. Our eyes, locked together and reflecting the same gem-tone blue, were our only common feature. Her reflection shadowed the water she stood above, while mine was blinded from the weak sun that pitifully tried to shine through the clouds. As determined, she was the darkness, and I was light.
By Killoran Mazur3 years ago in Fiction
Phase mansion daughter
The noble girls in Shangjing all knew that Prime Minister Gu had a young sister with a different surname, so they competed to please her, making Yan Jinger a favorite at various banquets for a long time. Until that year the palace banquet, Prime Minister Gu held her hand into the table, people were surprised.
By ails3 years ago in Fiction
The Violet exchange
January 1928 “Listen,” said Mr. Mastricoli, pausing halfway up the wooden staircase. He pushed his hat back a little and Violet could see the sweat beading underneath its brim. “I don’t know what your husband told you about this place, but it’s better if you let me talk to them. You understand?”
By The Twilight Zane3 years ago in Fiction
Hindy the little devil
Hindy the little devil Hindy is a kind little girl born in a family of magic. But she had no mother or father, only two strange aunts who lived with her in an old castle and taught her magic. There are twelve levels of magic, Hindi is only a junior magician, only three, and her aunt is already the most powerful magician, but far from the world's first. Hindy had an even weirder cat. It was an understatement to say that he was odd, for in terms of age he was older than Hindy's aunt, and yet he was like a newborn kitten. And the strangest thing was that it could speak, not only Chinese, English, Japanese, Russian, all human languages it could speak, even animal languages it could speak, and it could do magic, but for some reason it couldn't use magic. Hindi also has a rich girl, Milu, who is a bully and a bully. She is very jealous, but she has no magic, so she is often powerless to fight back against Hindi's "attacks". Which brings us to the next bit of farce.
By test3 years ago in Fiction