Sci Fi
Reasons
I can still hear the sounds from school as I walk back to my house. My plaid skirt hitting against my thighs as I take light steps. The buildings laid out perfectly, to my side. My black shoes made loud noises as I trudged through the brush. I stroked through my brown hair with my hand. I opened the front door to my house, and stepped through.
By LB Stories5 years ago in Fiction
So Much for the Afterglow
They say when you die, you should see a white light. Mine was green. Instead of taking me up or down, it took me down a narrow alley to a nondescript door. With as much effort as I could muster, I tried to knock, but my non-corporeal body tumbled head first through the door and halfway through the floor beyond until my...i guess it’s not really a body any more, my ectoplasm form stopped.
By Rachael Hamilton5 years ago in Fiction
The Night Shift
THE NIGHT SHIFT Karen drove to work feeling slightly anxious about the first day at her new job. She had never been a security officer before and did not know what to expect. The man who was to be her new supervisor, Sergeant Greg Smith, sounded like an interesting guy. Lieutenant Beck, Sgt Smith’s boss had mentioned that she and Greg might have some things in common. She hoped their common interests might make it easier to get along with him from the start.”
By Lisa Shaver5 years ago in Fiction
Station Hoppin' Blues
Foley steps off their bed onto old wobbly knees, a consequence of drug induced stasis and a decade since they last indulged. Their mattress sits beside an abandoned church organ, who’s keys thud anticlimactically when Foley uses them to balance. Shaking away the pins and needles in their legs, Foley heads to the bathroom and twists the tap for water. Nothing.
By Johnny Maloney5 years ago in Fiction
The Lost Marigold
There it was. It seemed so permanent being in stone. I felt like before this point, standing in the rain ruining a black suit with grief, that she would walk back through that door to the bedroom. Wearing something fancy and a smile. The smile was all I cared about. Now I am stuck here with tears in my eyes masked by the tears of some deity sharing its grief with me. Almost like it too was sorry that it took her from me. Everyone has to go sometime. Just not thirty-five years young and full of love. Full of life.
By Unabated Lemon5 years ago in Fiction
It's sharks.
We didn’t get the chance to go to the mall as family that often, so this was honestly really nice. I looked over at my dad who had his arms full of bags and my brother who was enjoying a ice cream same as me. My mother was smiling which didn’t happen very much, so it made me smile.
By Melinda Cooper5 years ago in Fiction
The Cure
‘The elusive Holmford Bay Great White has finally been located 3 weeks after it’s initial discovery. The shark has been giving our hunters a swim for their money, for the majority of June they have tailed it all along the East Coast. On the 15th we were heartbroken to announce that the trail had gone cold after 3 days with no sightings. Thankfully, Mary Gaul of Turnasea, was swimming with her children this morning when they spotted the large fin cutting through the water towards them.’
By Bethanie Clark5 years ago in Fiction
Fates Doorstep
I remember the day my life changed. It was the same day the package appeared on my doorstep. Any other day, the train station on Holladay road would have been a welcoming place. I would run to catch the 10:05 train to head to school where I majored in psychology. In the evening I would take the train home to my small townhome on the east side. It wasnt fancy, but it was home. Derek, my boyfriend would be there. Exhausted from a day of work we would cuddle on the sofa and watch late night television. Our small dog titan would curl up in my lap.
By Michelle Carbajal5 years ago in Fiction
