Tag: 250 words

“It’s always alive.  It’s always watching you,” Amber whispered dramatically.  Her Jeep headlights were already off and the surrounding candles were burning steadily.  I pulled the blanket over my head and couldn’t believe I had let myself get roped into hearing Amber’s ghost stories again.  I despised scary stories and wouldn’t sleep for days after hearing them.  No way could I…

I moved around so many times growing up, I got into the habit of never owning more than I could carry.  My main problem was the number of notebooks I had acquired over the years.  I couldn’t keep myself from writing stories and it got to a point that I had one large suitcase full of clothes and one stuffed with a few clothes and…

My father has always been my favorite storyteller.  He always tells me it’s because his family didn’t own a television when he grew up, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true.  He has to have a very active imagination to be able to make up all the intricate details that are included in his stories.  He also…

I’ve always been a sucker for happy endings.  I started reading fairy tales in elementary school and started rewriting them shortly after.  I grew tired of the prince always saving the princess.  I wanted the princess to be ready and able to save herself instead of waiting on someone else to come all the while hoping…

I have spent years trying to forget high school.  The petty fights, the drama, the gossip, the rumors.  I wanted to forget everyone and move on and move away.  Why anyone stayed in their hometown for anything was beyond me.  The worst time I had was when all my friends got a ride for lunch, but told me there wasn’t…

“It takes one to know one,” was my sister’s favorite comeback line in the history of comeback lines.  As we got older, she got wittier, but I always knew she did really love me when she repeated her favorite line.  She could never get the words ‘I love you’ to come out of her mouth,…

When Eddie Mayford was killed, everyone was shocked.  Eddie was the nicest one in our entire town and now he was dead.  Dead and nobody knows why.  The police released a statement of ‘no comment’ so I know that must mean there is something going on they don’t want the public to know.  I have been in…

I always had to have fresh flowers in my apartment.  It was a tradition started by my mother and I have never been able to let the tradition die.  The local flower shops know me by name, but I am beginning to get worried about my finances.  As the years have gone on, the price of flowers have slowly…

Because I am grumpy, I do not like change.  I do not want large groups of people moving into town and I don’t want to have to wait in line to buy groceries.  Call me a curmudgeon if you want to, but I like what I like.    Here’s what’s happening.  My neighborhood is about to change and I don’t like it.  There is a…

I really wanted to love Chicago, I really did.  I always had dreams about living in a big city that never sleeps and being able to access all the art museums and listen to live music.  I wanted to be able to immerse myself in the culture I had longed to be a part of for years.  Coming from a town that shut down at seven…