Writer: North Star Editor: Woody Smith "Dave!" She shouts slightly exiting the building. Carrie only hopes to grab his attention before he leaves the campus for the day. He turns to face her on the stairs amidst all the students coming and going around them. For a moment she stops to catch her breath as she feels she has been chasing him since forever,...
Chapter 1 "It Begins" The sun was beginning to set as they pulled off to the side of the road. He walks around the van and asks if he may hug her once again. As he did, she felt as though every ounce of energy was melting from her. What he didn't know was how attracted she actually was to him and how she had resisted the urge to ask the same from him. His...
The soft rustle of keyboards being touched, books opened, pages folded over, it is all but quiet. Yet it is very peaceful in the university library. A stilled day too, the third week of the summer break, the campus practically deserted. It's just me and a few other students that still have to finish their work. It's my final year and I am going to graduate....
Esme's heart was pounding, and she held her cell phone in a shaky hand. She had Ben's number dialed but hadn't had the courage to press the 'send' button. What was she doing? Why was she doing it? She wondered briefly what she would do if she accidentally hit 'send' and the call went through before she was ready. The possibility terrified her, and she quickl...
Fairies don't get a lot in the way of formal education. We come into being more or less needing to know most of the things we'll ever need to. I mention this because I want you to be impressed with me when I describe the arc the cartwheeling form of my princess was cutting through the air eight or ten stories above the treeline as a 'parabola'. Shut up. I h...
Rick was in a good mood as he prepared for the Halloween party. "This was probably going to be another one of those boring parties where nothing exciting happens, but what the hell, you never know," he thought to himself. His friend, Robert, had told him about this fabulous party at an old estate on the edge of town. He told him this was a special party but...
Kellenn found the Prince sitting on the edge of the pond casually tossing pebbles in. He sat down beside him and tossed a few as well. They stayed there watching the fish slowly swim with the occasional splash as one broke the surface. "How long do you think it will take" The prince finally said breaking the silence. "A turn of the large moon, maybe less w...
"You're still on time! It's all right, you're still on time." You say to yourself for the thousandth time as you check the clock on the dash, also for the thousandth time. You aren't wearing a watch because that would be out of costume. Watches are worn only when one is working. "I mustn't be late!" you think to yourself for the millionth time, because you'...
[Revised and fixed missing pieces 10/12/09] Sue struggled over which costume to wear to the *ADULTS ONLY* party for which we were already late. Though she favored a body-paint only getups, there was no way to do it right and dry in seconds. I jokingly suggested she could be ready in two minutes if she went in her long blonde wig and boots, otherwise total...
Many thanks to goodoldeditor for the editing—the story wouldn't have been posted without it. Gentle ambient lighting, classic blues songs birthed from a retro jukebox, and the symphony of colliding pool balls playing from five different tables constituted the ambiance inside the Southern Cross bar. Most of the people in the bar seemed to enjoy it well enoug...