He looked at the night sky and imagined other worlds. Alternative universes where he was happier, wealthier and maybe a couple of inches ...

It had been eleven months to the day since the storms first began. Most cities were but flattened piles of crumbling brick and rotting ...

I started out as any normal child. I’d pass the days away playing silly childish games, like duck-duck goose or tag with the neighborhood ...

Once a year we traveled to the same camping spot. It was a place called Camp Wanakalagooga. Wide open space in the middle of nowhere ...

How do you know if you’re crazy? What if you’re actually on to something you’re not supposed to know, and being labeled “crazy” is ...

I watched the fire burn what was left of the rubble away. My nose filled with smoke, my heart with vengeance I walked to the woods ...

The plane was landing, and I was running out of time. I frantically looked across the aisle at his slack-clad legs, crossed at the ...

“A hero’s journey is long and winding, but a hero always finds the way,” my mother read. “That’s the end of the story, Anya. Good night.” ...

I twisted the noose in my hands, curving it into a heart shape. Happy Valentine’s Day, I thought. Nothing else I’d done or tried to ...

“Please don’t hurt me...” Kay was curled up into a ball, her arms over her face. In the dark she couldn’t see who was there. “No, stop!” ...

Days later Houston, having recovered from the attack, stood in a dusty atrium in one of many deserted, faceless municipal buildings ...

When humankind first encountered an intelligence equivalent to its own, it was not at all what we expected.

Fortune cookies. I've been making them for eons, directing entire Chinese restaurants in the delicate art and penning the predictions ...

Once upon a time there was a man who likes seeing stars. That man was married and he had 2 daughters. One day, while he stayed at home ...

Wearing a mask is a beautiful thing until the moment dawns on you that taking it off is a lot harder than putting it on. I had been ...

I had always been an unremarkable demon. I came from a proud bloodline of many a well known incubus that had seduced some of the major ...

It was a beautiful night. The moon was shining over the mountains, illuminating the treetops and silhouetting the owls and other night ...

There is snow everywhere. It keeps piling up. It is not melting. It’s almost June.

Whenever someone asks me about my childhood, I don’t smile and think of good times. I shudder. I think of the only thing from my childhood ...

The night was cold and foggy, the perfect scenery for a gruesome crime. Detective John Mason was assigned to the case, he was the best ...

Crunch. The bug bit into its snack once more, covering yet keeping in time with the ticking of the clock it was captured in. It gleefully ...

Day 304: I am still all alone with no answers, just as I have been for the last nearly year. The lack of human companionship is finally ...

You think you know me. But I’ve fooled you with my ordinary clothing and passive manner. I want you to think I’m weak, submissive ...

Hola

The damp murk of the cellar, unaided by the arm of moonlight reaching in through the grime of a solitary window, was silent and still ...

Before their eyes was the frozen ocean, fractured but solidified once more underneath. It seemed like an undulating ballroom floor ...

Felce had always been a quiet town on the cliffs bordering the sea, the only racket emanating from it coming from the waves crashing ...

Well, it's not every day that you discover your mother is the most despised supervillain in the history of Mars.

I ran up as fast as I could. I could hear the loud booming voice ahead, bellowing "Giddy up, Giddy up! Last train out to your new life ...