Please note this is fiction and any similarity between real people is purely coincidental. Anna stifled a sob as she lay on the cold ground assessing the damage and the imminent danger. She was lying face down in the dirt after tripping over some unseen protrusion in her haste to escape the taunting
I was very tempted to leave this page blank. I mean, do you really want to know anything about toilet paper? It’s one of life’s necessities (except for the four billion people in the world who don’t use it) that we don’t really think about. Yet, a survey that asked what people would
The furious woman started screaming incoherently, spittle settling on her lips, and it took me a moment to realize the rant was aimed at me. As other shoppers stopped to determine what all the fuss was about, a few of her words started to become clear. She was talking/yelling about baby pigs. Even
You don’t have to do bad things to go to Hell. Anyone can get there. The tiny Michigan town in Livingston County is a popular fishing and swimming spot. Or there’s the European alternative, Hell, a tiny village in Norway. For me, it ’s more than 20 hours flying either way, so it
Please note this is fiction and any similarity between real people is purely coincidental. However, the information about retinitis pigmentosa and the AFL history has been researched and is believed to be correct. Tommy could feel the excitement emanating from other spectators like an electrical current. Noisy chatter, children laughing, rapid footsteps, rustling
According to various studies, I am more apt to suffer from migraines, allergies, moodiness, and insomnia. Sounds like menopause, doesn’t it? I am one of the 10 per cent in the world with the dubious distinction of being a leftie. I say dubious because, throughout history, lefties have been feared and despised. Well,
It sits there quietly waiting for death. Not its own, but that will surely come too. The house waits for its owner, no longer living there, to pass. Within its walls, it holds her secrets, her dreams, her love. It holds her memories in a way that she no longer can.
As Tess sat on the toilet in the hospital she knew she would have to be brave to get through this. She was a survivor, as anyone who knew the 93-year-old would tell you. Born in Holland, she had endured being raped by first the Russians, and then the Germans, during the war. The
This is the final part of the short story about broken relationships and broken minds. You can read part one of Broken here and part two here. Please note this is fiction and any similarity between real people and places is purely coincidental. Paranoid schizophrenia is a subtype of
Clint Eastwood believed they were not listening when he ‘talked to the trees’ (Paint Your Wagon) but he may have been wrong. French scientists have discovered trees do talk – well, at least they make noises when they are running out of water. The scientists at Grenoble University, France, used slivers of dead
