Ranger 229 stepped out of his aircraft and onto the squishy, purple surface of the unknown planet. He stood motionless for a few moments, surveying the lifeless landscape. Softly moving in quiet waves, undulating ground stretched as far as he …
Dialogue is dead. Good conversations are hard to come by. My girl Tina gave it pretty good, but sometimes you just gotta get it from somewhere else, you know? Sometimes you want it raw and dirty and from the lips …
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Two. I’m serious.
Three. Right, I’m calling your mother.
Hannah Retallick is from Anglesey, North Wales. She was home educated and then studied with the Open University, graduating with a First-class honours degree, BA in Humanities with Creative Writing …
“Hello-o-o, Canada!” I cheered, grinning at my teenage son in the passenger seat. I glanced in the rear view mirror and watched the border checkpoint fade into the horizon behind us. We had officially left Maine and were entering the parish …
Your wife won’t let you take over-the-counter medications. She won’t even allow them in the apartment. You act oblivious to her motives, but deep down, you know she thinks you’re weak and is trying desperately to toughen you up. This …
“Keep that up and I’ll fall in love,” he threatened.
Based in the United Kingdom, Sumana writes young adult fiction and poetry. Her best ideas are scribbled on envelopes.…
The Deadhorse Hotel is little more than a 1970s trailer park surrounded by Alaskan permafrost and gas companies hellbent on drilling through it. There’s only one road into town, the Dalton Highway, a 400-mile stretch of the most dangerous pavement …
The wrappers in the store candy bin mesmerized me, a well-surfed chocolate sea of reds, blues, and golds. Reaching in, I cut myself on a jagged piece of tarnished metal jutting out like Florida. I wanted to ask for a …
The new hires we pair straight away with the new corn. New corn is more energetic, more eager to prove itself, yet easier to scare. There is more leeway for the newbies to make mistakes, more ground to tolerate error. …