Title: So Sweet and So Cold
Rating: PG-13 for violence (WHAT A SURPRISE, amirite?)
Word Count: 772
Summary: A man's roommate takes the fruit he was saving and he confronts her about it. Also, there are zombies.

( Maybe that's the only thing that will keep us alive. A healthy dose of fear and paranoia. )

Title: This Sort of Thing
Rating: R for violence, I guess.
Word Count: 1257
Summary: ...Ugh, I don't know. I need to start writing things with a lot less violence, haha. Just needed to write something because I haven't written in forever and a day.

( I know you didn't do it. But you're covered in blood. )

Title: The Art of Being Gone
Rating: G
Word Count: 1029
Summary: A young woman can do anything she puts her mind to, even vanish.

( Once you start to disappear, there is nothing left to do but to go forward. )

Title: Past Mistakes
Rating: PG-13 for language
Length: 930
Summary: No matter how much you study the past, books can't prepare you for what it's really like when you're thrown into a world you don't belong to.

( I have never felt such immense pain in my life, as in that one instant when I was ripped from my own time. )

Title: Of Jeweled and Golden Eggs
Rating: PG-13 for language
Length: 2220 words
Summary: A young man's cousin, in an attempt to get him to toughen up, gets him a job with the mob.

( Paul had never liked pansies and he could recognize Tommy as being just that. )

Title: Keep Me Alive
Rating: PG
Length: 1237 words
Summary: A random free write, edited for grammar, since I haven't written in ages. Basically a post-apocalyptic group try to make their way north to a group of survivors. (Fact: I am obsessed with post-apocalyptic stuff. Also time travel, but you don't have to worry about that today.)

( I was not made for the world I ended up in. )

Title: Buck Starstream: Renaissance Man
Rating: PG for some violence
Length: 1598 words
Summary: Grace Hawthorne is sent by her publishing house to visit a new author they are interested in, but soon realizes she should have done a bit of homework on the man first.

( I was born on a stormy, wind swept field moments after my father had safely landed the plane he and my mother were piloting to Antigua, which had experienced engine failure after being struck by lightening. You don’t appear to be writing any of this down. )

Title: Rain Maker Found Dead
Rating: G
Length: 657 words

( It was only a matter of hours before the whole town knew: we were doomed )

Title: Melt Molten
Rating: PG
Length: 623
Summary: We either mourn or we don't. It makes no difference: we're still losing something.

“Father’s dead.”

I put a finger on the page to remind myself which sentence I had just finished and glanced up at Georgia. She was staring down at the contents of a torn envelope with her pale brow wrinkled, her clear ( Read more... )

Title: Demon
Rating: PG-13 for language and violence
Lenth: 867 words
Summary: Maybe if you got the chance to hear a monster speak, you'd understand why he kills.

Dogs never liked me.

If I'm going to be accurate, which is the whole point of this, I guess, all animals hate me. Cats, birds, horses, even hamsters. They just flip a shit when I'm around, ( Read more... )