His mother had always taught him not to ever think of himself as better than others. He'd tried to live by this motto. He never looked down on those w...

He was an expert but not in a discipline that anyone could fully appreciate. He knew how to hold the cone just right so that the soft server ice-cream...

Dave watched as the forest burned up on the hill, only a few miles from her house. The car had been hastily packed and Marta was inside trying to roun...

All he wanted was a candy bar. It didn't seem like a difficult request to comprehend, but the clerk remained frozen and didn't seem to want to honor t...

Hopes and dreams were dashed that day. It should have been expected, but it still came as a shock. The warning signs had been ignored in favor of the ...

Dave wasn't exactly sure how he had ended up in this predicament. He ran through all the events that had lead to this current situation and it still d...

This is important to remember. Love isn't like pie. You don't need to divide it among all your friends and loved ones. No matter how much love you giv...

One can cook on and with an open fire. These are some of the ways to cook with fire outside. Cooking meat using a spit is a great way to evenly cook m...

There are different types of secrets. She had held onto plenty of them during her life, but this one was different. She found herself holding onto the...

They rushed out the door, grabbing anything and everything they could think of they might need. There was no time to double-check to make sure they we...

It wasn't quite yet time to panic. There was still time to salvage the situation. At least that is what she was telling himself. The reality was that ...

She was aware that things could go wrong. In fact, she had trained her entire life in anticipation that things would go wrong one day. She had quiet c...

She wanted rainbow hair. That's what she told the hairdresser. It should be deep rainbow colors, too. She wasn't interested in pastel rainbow hair. Sh...

The paper was blank. It shouldn't have been. There should have been writing on the paper, at least a paragraph if not more. The fact that the writing ...

The trees, therefore, must be such old and primitive techniques that they thought nothing of them, deeming them so inconsequential that even savages l...

There was only one way to do things in the Statton house. That one way was to do exactly what the father, Charlie, demanded. He made the decisions and...

She was in a hurry. Not the standard hurry when you're in a rush to get someplace, but a frantic hurry. The type of hurry where a few seconds could me...

She had a terrible habit o comparing her life to others. She realized that their life experiences were completely different than her own and that she ...

The rain and wind abruptly stopped, but the sky still had the gray swirls of storms in the distance. Dave knew this feeling all too well. The calm bef...

He couldn't remember exactly where he had read it, but he was sure that he had. The fact that she didn't believe him was quite frustrating as he began...

He wandered down the stairs and into the basement. The damp, musty smell of un-use hung in the air. A single, small window let in a glimmer of light, ...

She has seen this scene before. It had come to her in dreams many times before. She had to pinch herself to make sure it wasn't a dream again. As her ...

It's an unfortunate reality that we don't teach people how to make money (beyond getting a 9 to 5 job) as part of our education system. The truth is t...

The robot clicked disapprovingly, gurgled briefly inside its cubical interior and extruded a pony glass of brownish liquid. "Sir, you will undoubtedly...

It went through such rapid contortions that the little bear was forced to change his hold on it so many times he became confused in the darkness, and ...

She patiently waited for his number to be called. She had no desire to be there, but her mom had insisted that she go. She's resisted at first, but ov...

If he could take ten more steps it would be over, but his legs wouldn't move. He tried to will them to work, but they wouldn't listen to his brain. Te...

He had three simple rules by which he lived. The first was to never eat blue food. There was nothing in nature that was edible that was blue. People o...

The chair sat in the corner where it had been for over 25 years. The only difference was there was someone actually sitting in it. How long had it bee...

Things aren't going well at all with mom today. She is just a limp noodle and wants to sleep all the time. I sure hope that things get better soon.