The wheel turned and she was transfixed. Only half a turn to go and her life changed forever. She'd win thirty seven dollars. It was enough to buy the used bicycle. It spun like

"Oi, skunkboy!" shouted Crispin, the school bully. I groaned. " Get yer four eyes over 'ere!" he said, chuckling at his weak joke. " Oh, go and combust why don't you?" I said

It was her worst nightmare. She was the first woman president in US history. She was also a germaphobe. The campaign had almost killed her, now 4 years of this? She called

At the end said my friends that they are going to play with me... said little kite and one day all the kites were flying high and high in the sky. That's the best part of the party

He'd spent eight years in jail for causing an accident that killed an entire family. Kids died. He'd plead innocent, but went to jail. His eyes rose. Toyota had announced a recall

She sensed that he was alone by the way he stirred his drink, and the huge sky blue vampire cape he'd worn. Nobody'd told him it was a costume party, because it wasn't. This was

If Jim had one thing going for him, it wasn't good looks, good luck, a lightning fast intellect, nor a sexy cop wife. Each of things was had by Doug, who'd married his own sister

It was her oath to protect and serve and she was one of the few who took it, and the concept of honor, seriously. He married her without knowing she wanted to be a cop, which made

She sat at the console, mindlessly tapping away. Out her window, the world looked as it had for so many other days of her dreary existence. But the hole in the wall

Something crashed hard on the balcony. I looked out, but the light from the living room only extended a foot or two though the sliding glass door. The glass fogged and cleared.

Anthropologists have found evidence which proves ancient cultures used such bizarre materials as tree bark, paper and cloth as preventative measures against

Jim walked to the end of the block and turned into the alley. He knew she was following him. He wanted her to. She'd been watching him for days. He went for his gun but she was

The water bubbled, like outta some kinda sci fi movie, and Martha just stared at it, certain that if she stared long enough, Devin would crawl back out. She could still taste

Number crunching, it looked like the company could afford any of the options, but the

He saw green blood. Most people would run, but he was Austrian! He wanted to calm the muscular sweating Indian so he said, "If it bleeds, we can kill it." But the blood

The fletcher handed a silver tipped arrow to him. They'd never hit their mark, but they had to appear valuable enough that they would not be wasted when the sheriff came to check

Eleven minutes ago his world ended, but he was standing there in the office telling jokes. Had he known, he'd have been swallowing a bullet or climbing the 10 foot roof fence.

RUN! The secretaries looked puzzled. I SAID RUN! The man burst through the door and headed straight for the window. The secretaries saw what was behind him and

Treaties signed, the president walked down the hall. Y2k had gone well and the American people were worried about almost nothing. The budget surplus and economic prosperity were

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