Love
Strangers on a Train
‘Trains, man do I hate riding some trains. I like exotic train rides. Like the ones that go through the Rockies or the Smokies. The ones in Europe are the most romantic train rides I think anyone could every take. But this train from New Jersey to New York has gotten to be the longest, bumpiest ride of my life. I swear! And I know it maybe just me. Everyone else looks so comfortable and relaxed. Maybe I am just spoiled!’ Courtney thought to herself as she sat once again at 5 o’clock on her morning commute from her home across the river in New Jersey to downtown Manhattan.
By Ireland Lorelei 5 years ago in Fiction
Small Town Heartache
They broke up in a small town where everybody knew everybody. But he did not know that when they broke up, she was going to find somebody so soon. He did not realize that he would soon have to see them everywhere he went. And when he did think about her moving on with someone, he did not think it would be someone that he knew.
By Amanda J Mollett5 years ago in Fiction
Stupid Little Hearts
I can feel the incredible weight of the antebellum door as I turn the knob. I wonder how many people have passed into this building in the past two hundred-fifty years. Pirates, slaves, barkeeps, business men and now myself. A tiny bell tinkles heralding my arrival.
By Daniel Charles Porter5 years ago in Fiction
The Great "Modern Man"
The sea was earl gray and the afternoon misty. They were searching for oysters, not pearls, the birds. That’s why they were called Oystercatchers. The wise ones weren’t concerned with the bright and shiny prize inside, they just sought after what nourished them. Though the climate changed, by washed-up sands, by wind-built dunes and storms destroying them, by people and pollution, no matter the changing agent, this would always be home. This was their nature: to swoop down and catch their oysters, retelling the endless tales of their ancestors.
By Emily Paul 5 years ago in Fiction
Fragility of Life
Finally my career was taking off after all the years of effort and hard work. I always knew that my support system weren't just blowing smoke when they told me how talented I am. I graduated first in my class and started my own law firm three years after practicing at a small town office. I never stopped at the first feeling of achievement. I always knew there would be more.
By Scott Sinderson5 years ago in Fiction
Blue raspberry slushy
Alice Smithson was madly in love Owen Anderson. Her best friend Owen Anderson. In fact, she had been in love with him since second grade. Since he came trailing into their classroom half way through the semester with baggy denim jeans and unbrushed, shoddy ginger hair. Owen had hazel irises that went unrivalled by anything she had ever seen, a puddle of melted pine dancing with a flurry of bright stars and a bundle of newfound hope. He had a soft sloping nose, her fingers itching to run down it softly and across the patchy pink that covered his plump, freckle dusted cheeks. The clothes he wore hung limply around his frame, obvious hand me downs by the already darkened marks that wrapped messily around his cream trainers.
By Abby louise5 years ago in Fiction
Taurus The Bull
“It was all a dream…” How could it be reality? For Taurus the Bull could not be moved. He could not be persuaded. Determined and stubborn he would forfeit his happiness, fighting for what he deemed as love. Yes. All this fighting for love, when little did he know, “the love planet,” was what guided him.
By Beautiful Intelligence5 years ago in Fiction
Gaze of the Matador
He wasn't a handsome man, nor was he smart. Not to say he was slow or foolish, merely that he lacked aptitude in the disciplines deemed necessary by academia. Mathematics, history, literature all held very little meaning to him. The only books he read were eminently practical, handbooks on carpentry, hunting digests, treatises on the art of survival. My dear Raul was interested only in what he could do with his own two hands, all other information was a mere distraction.
By Cecil Stehelin5 years ago in Fiction
