"You really want to get this tattoo today?" Avery asked Gen wearily. He pulled out a cigarette and let dangle between his dry lips, cursing himself for having so many pockets

I'm gonna start eating carrots and spitting them around like a bad ass.

For some reason, my father prepared his uncle's best friend over me. It's been like that since I was six and dying of a fever. I never understood what he found in that tiny man.

Agnes Faulks laid her dingo to rest on the Salisbury Plain. It was just a dingo, unspecial to most, but it was her dingo and he knew her name. Their private moment was interrupted

This ain't a song for the broken-hearted No silent prayer for the faith-departed I ain't gonna be just a face in the crowd You're gonna hear my voice When I shout it out

So she writes. She creates the most simplistic, annoying, horrid stories, and for what? Oh, that's right, because she's bored. So she forces us to suffer with her by reading her st

She knew that he was never coming back but she'd forgotten how long a day or a week or a month could be and how hope is so violent. So she went to a bar & found a man there who

Dave was back on Earth hosting a morning talk show with the Monolith. Just before going live, Dave said, "Hey, M, maybe turn sideways and check your ratio?" M looked at Dave.

The tea had long since gone cold, but I didn't want to get up and reheat it.

I never really understood the concept of love; I never could grasp the concept of "loving" someone. What does love feel like? How do you know its love and not just a simple ache.

Blinding white lights. the smell of antiseptic. the scratchy paper shift she was wearing. frantic voices swirling around her head in a chorus of blurs and slurs. where was she?

smckrobinson really wanted kristyleann to attend a strange party that was being thrown for her two months after her wedding. They've known each other IRL for years, and

"One more hour, then I can get out of here." He whispered as he checked his watch. Only one of the doors was closed. He could hear something in his office.

We reveal a new way to speed up cancer drug discovery: free medical knowledge! We passed a law stating that all medical knowledge is to be freely obtainable, now rich and poor can

"Convergence my eye!" groused my smartphone (unbeknownst to me at the time). "I'll show you Convergence!" It filled me in later by way of a trojan dream-rec app, and now

With my hands on the railing, I stare into the darkness beyond the veranda, listening intently. But the night rests silently: only mosquitos, flies, a dog barking in the distance.

"It says here we can get a energy credit from our electric company if we buy into the hamster-powered generator farm. Should we sign up?"

I believe you are deceiving me miss, for only pigs can fly. Well then, how do you suppose that little robin got all the way to the top of that tree? I don't know..it must have been

The little girl watched as the car ran right through her. "What the actual..."

Some of us just can't bear with frustration,which only builds up more frustration as we become impatient.