“You can’t watch it, sweetie.” “Why? It’s summer vacation so I don’t have to go to school tomorrow.” “Well…” Mommy wiped her hands on a dishtowel, and turned away from the sink. “…you’re still little, and the show is…” “What?” …

Ben had to work today, and ended up leaving around 10:00 pm. He was tired and stressed from having to work in the kitchen at the local restaurant all night. Letting his arms sway a little more than normal, he …

Solemn voices drifted down the hall from the television in the living room to the kitchen where Donna Bowman stared sourly at a box of elbow macaroni shells, and a half tub of cottage cheese. Husband Michael, a fan of …

Carter walked out of the bright June sunshine and into the coolness of the porch. It took his eyes a few moments to adjust, and at first June Winters was just a bodiless voice hidden behind a blur of orange/yellow …

I slowly woke up, and stared at my ceiling. Summer was over and the leaves were falling off the trees. If I don’t get up and out of the house soon, I might be volunteered by my parents to rake …

Imagine for a moment what life would be like had you been born without a conscience.  No feelings of guilt or remorse, no regard for the safety or well being of others. No shame regardless of what kind of horrifying …

The wind. The god damn wind. Every gust sends another chill through my body. I leaned against the car. The car that screeched to a halt in a sand and rock parking lot next to a swamp pond in the …

No windows. No doors. No escape. Compared to other women, I know I’m lucky. I’m the woman who has it all…a devoted husband, a beautiful home, and more money than I know what to do with. For the last ten …

She stood motionless in the kitchen, contemplating her plan of ending him while simultaneously grappling with her conscience. She had plotted and planned this event many times but, somehow she always managed to talk herself out of it. Maybe it …

There’s a beacon of light in the darkness, swaying to and fro, to and fro. It’s beautiful. Illuminating. Hypnotizing. I follow it, like I would follow a lover to the ends of the earth. Camping out in the woods was …