Every day for an hour, she stared at the crystal apple, willing it to move, melt, burn, shatter... anything. And every day it sat glimmering, mocking her... every day until today.

The electric eraser vibrated in my hand, taking the pencil from the page as if it had never been there. On a whim, I held it up and pointed it at the wall, which disappeared and

'Do I have the emotional heft to get off the bus at the next stop or shall I just stay on until the end of the route and get kicked off?' This was the kind of question that Zoe ask

Beware of a petulant man with a vuvuzela

One day Pablo was walking down the street to his local McDonalds, just as he had been every day of his life for 5 years straight. It's a wonder that he is even alive still.

"Hey, I know..." I hated when she started a sentence with those words. Trouble would soon follow, I knew. Almost as bad was, "I was wondering..." I drew a deep breath and waited.

He listened to They Might Be Giants which only confirmed he was a nerd. But he was also dumb. Being a dumb nerd was like being the lumpen proletariat because

Everyone you did it. You should

I have adopted the practice of pacing...back and forth...left and right...up and down...day-in and day-out...but I'm not really sure why I do it, unless, of course...I happen to be

Pagi itu sungguh indah. Burung-burung berkicau di dada langit. Mentari menyebarkan sinarnya ke bumi untuk dinikmati setiap makhluk. Di bawah sebatang pohon rendang duduk seorang

Even without the smell of bleach stinging her nostrils, Mary new she was back at her old high school. It was the hallway echoed; she could almost hear the taunts of the other kids

In the Nevada desert, sits the Clown Motel. It has spacious accommodations, welcomes bikers, and dish tv. It also has an abandoned miner's graveyard. It was a steal for $900,000. O

I can't say I was surprised. In fact, I seem to have remembered reading about something like this in a novel. Something about clues unfolding one bit at a time

I was going to my friend's house .WHEN I GOT there,i opened the door and I STARTED CALLING MY FRIEND. THEN I NOTICED THAT THE HOUSE WAS FREEZING COLD AND THE FLOOR WAS SLIPPERY

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I had just been promoted to

Every time I turned it off was a chance for it to die peacefully, only to be revived again by the jagged jaws of my father’s jumper cables.

Nobody believes me when I tell them that I remember being born, but I was in that womb for five years. When I finally burst out in a display of gore and liberty, my (maybe) father

"What is this?" "Just take it." "I'm not kidding" "Me neither. It's a failsafe. For that kind of event, when things go pancake-shaped." "To put it mildly." Things have to be really

John R took the call from John T. "Get down to intensive care NOW. Phoebe's not going make it & she's asking for you." John R vowed revenge on John Q for shooting the only woman he

We found the fourth colony, about 450 birds, on 13 June. It was within the San Jacinto Wilderness, next to a pond on Warner Road. The strange