Gravel – John Cook
It pressed into her face, the sharp points and edges like a hundred needles igniting her nerves. Her lips pulsed with her beating heart. She could taste the blood in […]
It pressed into her face, the sharp points and edges like a hundred needles igniting her nerves. Her lips pulsed with her beating heart. She could taste the blood in […]
The boy chewed madly on his lip as his eyes fought to bug from their sockets while the elderly Chinese woman used meticulous care in removing the slivers of glass […]
I loved planes, I mean really loved planes. I had over 120 models; about the only things I could afford to buy, or that my dad let me buy, with […]
When we want to quantify the immeasurable we talk about the grains of sand on a beach. To imagine such a number is impossible so we use this to mean […]
“Oh, dang it!” “Hey down there! What is it you’re up to?” “Oh, geez. I lost a contact lens.” “Down there?” “Yeah. Ah, golly.” “I don’t see anything.” “It’s a […]
(i) The darkness swallowed him. Hid him as he sat under the awning, rain mixing with sweat as it dripped of the end of his nose into a small puddle […]
Growing up in poverty in the US isn’t what you imagine. It’s not like some sappy Sarah McLaughlin infomercial about alleviating hunger in a third world country. Food wasn’t the […]