Tag: 250 words

  • Bad Habits

    “I picked up that habit from Brianne.  I know it’s a weird one and can be super annoying, but I’ve done it for so long, I can’t stop.”  “You can stop, just try harder,” my mother snapped.  “You can’t blame Brianne for everything.”  I opened my mouth to argue, but I knew it wouldn’t work.  When…

  • Empty

    My truck rolled to a stop as the arrow passed the E on my gas tank.  I knew it was coming and had been hoping to make it a little farther from home before running out of gas.  Justin wouldn’t find out I was gone for another hour and a half.  If I was lucky.  I had…

  • The Painters

    I thought the painters looked suspicious the moment they pulled up in a murder van.  My sister and I had been listening to way too many podcasts about true crime and it was all we could talk about.  Suddenly everyone looked suspicious and everyone had the potential to be a murderer.  My sister laughed about my overactive imagination…

  • Make or Break

    I knew the next decision would make or break my academic life.  And I only had two minutes to decide what to do.  I had been working two jobs and going to school to finish the last of my degree when I realized I had a ten-page paper due the next day.  Art history was not on…

  • Dr. Jordan

    “What kind of crazy would you call that?”  Sam and I watched our professor from the back of the classroom.  Dr. Jordan was frantically writing on the board.  In a weird way, it was oddly soothing since she was usually very calm and collected.  For me, it was nice to see someone who acted just as crazy as I felt in the…

  • Only Desire

    My only desire was to get out of town as soon as possible.  I needed a fresh start and with my history in Phoenix, I knew nothing here would change.  The reach of my ex-boyfriend was as wide as he was rich.  Growing up in a middle-class family, I had never had access to private planes and the nicest…

  • Gossip and Rumors

    I knew next to nothing about what was going on at school.  Some thought I was naïve and that was true to a certain extent, but part of it was that I just didn’t care that much.  I’m not sure why people thought I needed to be aware of the gossip and rumors that flew around a small Texas high school.  I…

  • Peace

    Peace was not something that came easily for me.  Because my mom is a yoga instructor at the local gym and is on the verge of opening her own studio, everyone assumes I am as attuned to the spirit world as she is.  In reality, I feel connected to almost nothing relating to yoga.  Over the years, my interest in yoga and meditation has come and go in varying degrees, but I have never felt the same calling as my…

  • Saving My Father

    “I know there are more than this,” Jason demanded.  “If you don’t give them to me you will die.  And so will your father.  But his death will be much slower and more painful.”  I knew Jason and I knew what he was capable of.  Hurting my dad was new, but not unexpected.  In the past all his rage had been solely directed at…

  • Nothing but Pray

    “I haven’t done anything but pray since I heard the news.  I don’t know what else I can do at this point.”  I waited for my sister to respond, but knew from the silence that she had hung up on me.  When I was twelve and Savannah fourteen, our sister Grace had left the house for high school one Friday afternoon and never returned. …