Category: 250 words

  • Building Tension

    As soon as Mason walked into the room, I threw all my insecurities out the window.  At least I tried to.  I downed what was left of my wine and took a deep breath.  Tonight was the night.  I had to talk to him and find out exactly what had happened between Rosa and him. …

  • Memory

    I felt a panic attack rise in my chest as I realized I didn’t remember.  Didn’t remember anything but the last twenty-four hours of my life. I had gone to sleep the night before, just like always, but when I woke up, I didn’t even know my own name.  Or where I was.  I looked…

  • Zen

    No matter how much time I tried to sit still and meditate, I could never get my mind to stop running away from me.  In the few short minutes I managed to meditate in the last week or so, I came out of it feeling much better than I had in months.  If only I…

  • His First Assistant

    “His first assistant was a nightmare,” Laurie gossiped.  This was the only reason I was able and willing to sit at the desk next to her.  I needed to know everything about the company because I needed to duplicate the entire company.  Right down to the color of the carpet.  And I needed to do…

  • Buried Secrets

    “I’m not supposed to be talking to you,” I mumbled, trying to walk quickly away from AJ.  He was the root of all my problems, and I had been too dumb to figure it out before now.  He was the reason for my swift downfall, and I had run blindly into his trap.  AJ had…

  • The Future

    “Well, I didn’t see that coming,” I said as I watched my car sink deeper into the pond.  I glanced sideways as Suzy and almost laughed as her jaw seemed to be edging closer to the asphalt.  I knew I shouldn’t be so happy about my car sinking into a pond, but I knew I would…

  • Panicked

    “I knew there was always a chance he was going to panic. But I was trying to hold out hope he was going to be all right. That he would survive. Carry on.” Before I could finish, Sasha interrupted me.  “This has always been your problem. You trust everyone way too much. Trusting them to…

  • High Ceiling

    I knew the high ceilings would be a problem when I needed to paint.  And I needed to get everything painted quickly, before Jameson got home.  If he knew what had happened while he was out of town on a work trip, I would never be able to get through our relationship if he knew…

  • Adoration

    Hazel had always told me my adoration of Taylor was misplaced.  That he wasn’t the All-American, small-town boy he made himself out to be.  But I couldn’t help myself.  He was charming, but sullen.  Down to earth, yet wild.  A straight shooter with attention problems.  He came from a well-to-do family.  In short, he had everything I…

  • Repulsed

    I was completely repulsed by the stranger immediately.  There was something about his swagger that triggered me.  It kind of reminded me of how my neighbor walked and even though he was cleared of any wrongdoing by a technicality, I was pretty sure he did murder his wife.  Stacy “disappeared” two days after I heard…