Tag: short story

Scared and Alone

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

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

The constant sound of dripping woke him from his dreamless sleep. His eyes had a hard time adjusting to the

It is the 7th day into our voyage across this unnamed sea. The storm clouds are above us, threatening to

“I can’t believe I won!” the man said looking at his lottery ticket. “Bullshit Frank. Let me see that,” a