The wet sand between her toes soothed her soul as she walked. “I guess it soothes my soles, too,” she mused as she continued down the beach and might have laughed if she hadn’t been in such a sour mood ( Read more... )

I am a weird little multi-level house. Maybe like those houses in the Hollywood Hills. Hard to find. Around a curvy road. But the driveway is inviting, and roomy. Maybe, quite possibly, I am a house with a whole entire pretty-big lawn people could park next to, and even on. There is room for lots of friends and family. And there's an apple ( Read more... )

Sienna cradled the tinder in her cupped hands like a small bird. She held it near her lips and whispered: fieri. Her voice echoed inside her head in unison with 1000 other voices that whispered with her. A light breeze blew through the forest as tiny leaves trembled all around her. A small orange spark ignited in the center of the tinder, and her ( Read more... )

Lyla quickened her pace as she made her way to History class. She knew she shouldn't be late, especially today, the day of the pop quiz on the Great Gnome War of 1712. But something caught her attention in her periphery. Silas's hand left the board, right by a thumb tack, and she thought she heard him chuckling about something. Was that a new ( Read more... )

If you're going to stay in my house, you could at LEAST make yourself useful. Here I am, taking my child to school, doing dishes, walking the dog, folding clothes, and what do you do? Sit there all day, like a lump, just smoldering on the couch? I do the laundry, you've got the tv on, I cook meals, you've got crumbs everywhere, I take the trash ( Read more... )

“Oh, DRAT, and curses!” Ember shouted as she tripped for the eighth time that week over an old suitcase. It sat under a table, atop the bricks. A pathway of red bricks formed a circular ring around the grassy area, in the center of which sat a large cauldron, currently giving off quite the odd aroma as the brew came to a boil. This large yard, ( Read more... )

"Be brave," he said. And he pushed at the small of my back ( Read more... )

James had awoken not long after his Papa. He pulled a stool over to the counter, and climbed gingerly up to the counter. He put the coffee beans in the grinder, then the grounds in the pour-over above the mug ( Read more... )

Ok, today's the day. I'm going to do it. I am. I don't know HOW I'm going to do it yet, but I just feel the possibility in my bones. No, wait - The certaintyHow can it be so close, and yet so far? That glorious yellow orb, out in the open. I know I can get to it. I must, afterall. It just feels like some invisible barrier is blocking me. I ( Read more... )

This is an entry for therealljidol. Prompt: Where I'm From. Hope you enjoy!Ted sat in front of the blank computer screen for hours. It wasn't blank the entire time. In fact, he had typed plenty. Every time, he typed a line, read it, sighed. Ctrl + A. Delete ( Read more... )