A gentle breeze caresses your face as you slowly walk through the forest. The sound of leaves rippling in the wind above you fills your ears to the accompaniment of birds and insects singing their primal songs. The sun low in the sky casts a crimson shade across the horizon that transitions to a deep blue above and a dark purplish black behind you. You smell the scents of wild flowers around you w...

I’ll never forget the day that I awoke from a nap and heard the choking sobs of my favorite assistant, Emily, in the other room. This isn’t a feel good story. This is a story of my greatest failure. My failure to protect the most important person in my life.

I jumped up and ran as fast as my four legs would carry me. When I rounded the doorway I saw the Intruder knelt down in front my Emily, hand...

Growing up on a lake might sound amazing to most people. Looking back on it, some 40 years ago now, I suppose it lent a certain excitement that other kids didn’t have. To us it was normal. The backyard sloped down gently toward the water and ended abruptly with a foot or two drop to the water, only a handful of inches deep here at the edge of the shore. We had a pier that jutted out into the lake ...

John hesitantly walks in and the front door of his house. He feels anxious, what little argument will they get into tonight? What small thing will become an enormous divide that they can’t bridge this time. He finds his wife Martha waiting for him on the couch, a packed suitcase on the floor next to her.

“John, we need a break”, she says choking back tears.

His pulse skyrockets, is this really...

Anna got back to work from her lunch break and found a large bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates waiting for her on her desk. “Who could have sent me these?”, she ask’s herself. She searches around the flowers and finds a small card tucked into the stalks of the flowers. It’s reads:

“Can’t wait to see you later!

From Mark”

She smiles and she lifts the bouquet to her face and breaths in th...

Jan. 5, 2014

Today started as any other day. I woke up and ate breakfast, brushed my teeth, and left the apartment to begin my commute to work. Work was as monotonous as usual, writing scripts for a new app that they say will change the world but really it’s just another trash money grab that will fail and disappear in a few months like the many before it. As I sit here writing this I can’t think ...

The soldiers scanned the barren wasteland for movement. Nothing living could be discerned from the pockmarked ground, only the sound of the wind gently blowing through the alien flora. As they walked through the foreign landscape their intelligence officer on the ship above came over the radio, “We are picking up movement to your 3’o clock!”. The soldiers snap to attention looking towards to direc...