For six years, my home has been a foster home to teenagers in foster care. During those six years, my partner has only ever wanted to care for a girl of pre-schooler age. Just one – that’s all my partner …
The first thing Jane knew about it was a flash in the sky. A small flash in a clear blue winter’s sky, followed by a shower of condensation trails. It looked like a backwards firework, she thought as she watched the various …
“Apocalypse”, interactive episode of “Earth” series. Vote for the ending.
Jacek Wilkos is an engineer from Poland. He lives with his wife and daughter in a beautiful city of Cracow. He is addicted to buying books, he loves coffee, dark …
“Where the hell have you been? You’re 30 minutes late. I wanted you here at 6am. Get your worthless butt aboard, so we can get going,” Eric Hemming, who was standing on the stern of his fishing boat Juanita, shouted to …
Hands she’d clasped to teach walking, coaxed her into assisted-living.
Archit Joshi is a published short-story author who loves writing character-driven stories. Besides writing, he studies Computer Science and occasionally lends his hand to Social Services. He has also flirted …
Abbie and Mollie took a room for the week at the Pine Hotel. Friday was payday on this side of the mountain and they had ridden Abbie’s new 1924 Ford Roadster over the pass from Atlanta for the party. Mollie …
Elena giggles as a gorilla bear stares in bewilderment at her tambourine talents, still excitable, even after all these years, by even the slightest of attentions. I stand beside her like I have for a decade now, looking as regal …
He came home with flowers, to police tracing chalk outlines.
Zoey Xolton is a published Australian author of Dark Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Science Fiction and Horror. Her short stories feature in many well-loved anthologies. To find out more, please visit: …
We found out about her death because Dad saw her obituary in the newspaper. A week or two later, her property was posted with a sign advertising the sale of the contents of her home. Dad collected antiques and anything …
The guy behind the counter of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s department handed me a shoe box and said, ” Here you go, buddy. Here are your father’s remains.”
Begrudgingly, I took them, not excited in the least to be doing …