The grasshopper, dictyophorus spumans, perched on the red oat grass. The large black eyes and the thick antenna gave it an alien look. The waxy exoskeleton made the red and black color on the legs stand out even more. The body was covered with yellow and brown dashes. A swift side move and a jump away made it disappear off the grass leaf. The red oat grass,...
Open for contributions, this is intended as a collaborative story. The Savage Land is a hidden place, lost to time. Filled with plants and animals long thought extinct, dinosaurs roam vast plains and lush jungles of titanic trees while sabre-tooth tigers stalk their prey amidst its soaring rocky peaks. The vast ruins of long lost and forgotten civilizations...
I grabbed everything I thought I might need as I headed out of my apartment. My cell phone rang yet again and I answered it with an annoying hello. "I'm on my way for real this time, I promise". I hung up the phone, and practically ran to my car; I was not really late, considering we had hours before the club even opened. I tossed all of my bags into the b...
(From A Suggestion By MordMorgan) Molly Kerrigan, like many people, dreaded going to the dentist. It was an apprehension she'd carried over from her childhood. The core of which was her fear of the dreaded drill. Many people dealt with their phobia in different ways, the most common of which was to simply avoid going until they had a problem that had to be...
Foreword: Good Day loyal reader! I wanted to take a minute to thank you all for the feedback you have given me and especially for you select few who have offered words of encouragement or have seen some of the first drafts of these stories. It is sometimes difficult to get into my characters world, but when I do I find the time I spend there rewarding. I ne...
Let me start by assuring you that I'm neither rash, nor prone to acting without forethought. My name is Emma Thornton, I'm thirty-seven, with two kids in their mid-teens and a career in commercial property brokerage. My old man couldn't cope with the stresses that having a young and growing family inevitably brought, and headed out for easier grazing in newe...
Saturday 24th August Ohhhh, the office party last night was embarrassing. It all started off well enough, then I got talking to Karen Naismith. She's one of the partners in Naismith-Gordon, a firm of civil architects we do a lot of business with. I've met her a few times before, mainly in meetings where I'm taking minutes. She's always struck me as very sma...
One Halo, Two Wings, And An 'A' Thursday, May 16th, 1991, 2:03 p.m. "Karen Boswell?" "Here." "Ricky Burke?" "Yeah." "Angela Cadwick?" "Present and accounted for!" 20-year-old Angela—who preferred but did not demand to be called Angie—liked to announce her attendance in such a fashion. When the semester opened and she did so, pockets of classm...
A few weeks ago my friend Miranda called to say she was coming to town for a couple of nights. We hadn't seen each other in a long time since I had moved across the country. I immediately invited her to stay with me. I hadn't had many friends visit since I had moved so I was looking forward to it. Miranda met me at my office mid afternoon. We tossed around...
Jenny waited patiently, pretending to read her magazine as her husband went through his evening ritual, first stripping out of his clothes and then lumbering into the bathroom for a shower. After brushing his teeth and making some incredibly disgusting noises, he'd wander out, pull on his underwear and head back up to the front of the house. Amid a number of...