• The Monster Under the Bed

    “I thought you had always told me that story was a fable.  A tale.  you told me monsters weren’t real.  Are you now telling me all my nightmares of the creature under my bed were REAL?”  If there was a way Miles could be whisper-yelling, he was doing it right now.  “The truth is…  I…

  • Spell Gone Wrong

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  • The Missing

    “They are almost twenty minutes late.  Where could they be?  Do you think it’s possible they overslept?”  Manny checked his watch again like he hadn’t been checking it every thirty seconds.  Molly and the rest of her Model UN team were late for the required breakfast before the beginning of the competition.  “Have you tried…

  • Fine Dining & Catering

    “Listen, I got the job!  I’m starting on Friday night as the newest team member of Fine Dining and Catering.  Maybe things are finally looking up for me.  New year, new me.”  As I listened to my cousin tell me about her new job, I wasn’t sure if I should warn her about what I…

  • The Window

    PHOTO PROMPT © Alicia Jamtaas  I knew when I saw him, I wanted to know him. But I knew he couldn’t come up to my apartment. It was too small and I had too much furniture. And I hadn’t done my laundry. It was too hot. The fan in the window was the only way…

  • The Library Book

    At first, I thought the catalog must be wrong.  Hadn’t I diligently checked and rechecked every single entry?  I knew the library was used all day every day and I had spent months, years even to make sure all the books, audiobooks, DVDs, that everything was entered correctly.  But now, there was an unexplained addition…

  • The Fortune Teller

    “We are really going to interrogate a fortune teller?  Which one?  Who is she?”  I stared at my partner as she was practically jumping up and down with excitement.  “What are you so excited about?  You have a thing for voodoo?  Spirits?  Think you want someone to predict your future?  Know your secrets?”  I grabbed…

  • Dynamite

    Everyone in my small settlement town had written me off from day one.  I was the immigrant, the outsider, the child.  No one gave me a chance in hell for survival.  With my parents dead from the fever raging through town, I had no choice but to strike out on my own.  I needed to make…

  • The Bandit

    “I just need to meet up with the next caravan and everything will be fine,” I told the stranger.  I just hoped she was really buying the story I had been attacked by a thief instead of being the thief myself.  “But the Bandit!  He has been up and down this road.  He might come…

  • Barbarossa

    I knew what needed to be done when Barbarossa took control of our ship in the middle of the night.  We had done everything in our power to avoid the legendary pirate and his crew, but our precautions had not paid off.  Barbarossa was one of the most recognized and feared pirates because he and…