The plane was crashing. I didn't know what to do.

Or so I think my father thought. I wouldn't know exactly because that was the last time we all saw him. He knew he was risking his ...

Alice was in trouble. She was floundering. She was sinking. The worst possibilities her friends had suggested were no longer abstract ...

Clouds of dust plumed up as sheets of residue fell off the windowsills. Long abandoned, the house shuddered under the force of the ...

We are building a bridge...a new path to a new town. This area was recently bought by a big company and they want to develop a new ...

Never leave a container of mint balls next to a witch's cauldron. But the trick to this is, what exactly is a witch? When I first came ...

Maybe it was the length of time I’ve spent in the silence of space, but music has meant a lot to me these last 5 years. I’d gotten ...

Once, I had read how the mushrooms we see in the forest are not individual organisms, but part of a much larger whole that exists underground ...

Her hands trembled as she took the reigns, knowing what it meant to leave. She tapped Lancelot with her heel and he left the open door ...

My partner and I pulled up outside the scene of the crime, annoyed to find the news crew had already beaten us there. It was the third ...

Mitch and Mindy leapt up, terrified what lay beneath. They twirled around, examined the human remains occupying their chairs and, in ...

Where am I going to find a box of grits at this hour? It’s an unconventional ingredient, as far as magical components go, but Southern ...

The boy suddenly woke up on the shores of a beach. Bitter cold and the familiar stench of coastal decay overtook him. The deafening ...

Finally after 3 years of searching, I had found my little sister. There was only one problem, directly on top of the cage that she ...

The giant’s body lay face down in what this morning had been Halbert Haversham’s home, stables, and small orchard. The giants left ...

The doll continued sewing in the dark corner, greeting the needle spiders as they clattered across the wooden shelf. Many avoided her ...

He brought his hands together in glee, his eyes gleaming. He received looks as if he had lost his mind, but that just increased his ...

I ran through the hallways trying to get to class. It seemed like one of those scenes in a movie where the main character is comically ...

Grind the beans until they turn as smooth as sand in an hourglass. Pull the lever until the water streams down in an iridescent cascade ...

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 ...