Category: Shorts

Scared and Alone

Anica walked around with her head held low, staring at her bare feet smacking the bricks of the busy sidewalk,

“Don’t worry Jonas,” his mother said to him as he wiped away a tear. “Do you see the painting on

Working in an airport you see thousands of people every day, business people, families, vacationers, and random stragglers just going

My shoulder hurts from the seatbelt. Daddy is slumped over the steering wheel. I shout, but he doesn’t answer. Amy

I woke up, not in my bed like I expected to be in, but in a musty flea ladened pile

“Daddy…” the little girl said to her father while tugging on his overcoat. “Come on Daddy…let’s go back and get

I had just put the last piece of the new entertainment center when I saw the waters coming towards my

“I’ve done it!” a man dressed in a long stained lab coat exclaimed. He pulled his welder’s goggles from his

John’s wife knew he had to work every day to keep up with the piles of medical bills that flowed

She held him in her hands, gently caressing his hair with her fingers. “I love you,” she said with a