This bicycle is lying in the street not for any obvious reason. No one got hit by a car or swerved to miss a dog and fell off it. No one got dragged off it to be abducted. This isn’t that kind of story. It fell off a van. It was not broken when it first fell off the van but it broke when it fell. The van was being driven by a man named Adam Bunk. It was getting dark outside and Adam and his friend...

Helicopters parent. That is the term so many members of her family teasingly called her when her son took his first steps. Thinking back, they even criticized how much she held him as a baby. “He’ll never learn to self soothe.” “You’re nursing him too long” “he’s just attached to your hip.” “He’s just a mama’s boy huh!”

Her favorite was when people would surprisingly say, “well what are you doin...

Paul rushed to his bike before his colleagues could reach him. Bigger and taller than him, though, the three boys got to Paul just as he was about to climb onto his bike.

“Not so fast, four-eye.” Ben said, grabbing him by the shoulders. “I gave you a week to bring me ten bucks. Where are they?”

Paul tried not to shake but it was stronger than him. How could he justify asking for ten extra buck...

Jessica O’Mally was just a regular 17 year old girl. She had friends,a phone,and a bike. She was on her high school’s cross country team. And this morning she decided to go on a nice bike ride to get ready for practice. She ran out the door and threw on her air pods. She was humming her favorite song softly. She was biking so fast she didn’t even see the car.....and 3 hours later her parents foun...

When you trip and fall on a blade that goes through your eyes and skull.

Then you finally make out it was an icicle.

Break your ribs on an already broken bicycle.

Pour me another glass or I will.

Give you a tour to the part of your ass you’ve never seen before.

Because now you’ve awoken and you can see your head was so far up your ass you started to see what’s been waiting, a broken bicycle.

One ...

Joey was a regular kid nice, sweet & loved bicycles. His bicycle was his best friend, but this is the day that joey and his bicycle depart forever.

Joey woke up that morning excited for the day ahead. Joey ran passed his mother and out the door straight to his bike. Joey's mother yelled,” don't forget to be in before the streets lights come on”!

As Joey is riding his bike, he ran into his fr...

“Be back by 10!” My fathers voice echos. I stare down at my watch, 9:45. My breathing is rushed and my legs are burning.

“Come on, you got fifteen minutes.”

I keep peddling faster and faster, the handle bars on my bike swinging back and forth.

9:50.

I reach an intersection and screech to a stop. A women in a white beat up truck speeds past, honking, and putting a finger in the air. I roll my eye...

“He liked it, that’s all,” Harry said through his tears. “It was practical.”

That bike and it’s basket had been one of Adrian’s most prized possessions. From the day he ripped it out of the Christmas wrapping and box he had whizzing up and down the neighbour laughing with glee. He’d taken to it like duck to water, as they say, and had progressed to riding through the woods while the light still ...

I’ve always loved riding my bike. It allows me to feel free and to travel where I want to. Long bike rides in the park or in town, they bring me joy and relaxation that I rarely get anywhere else. But sometimes what you’d least expect happens.

A short bike ride home from work ends up leading to a night in the hospital. I got hit by a car. It wasn’t their fault. It wasn’t mine. It just happened. B...

I get up and go to the garage hop on my bike and just start paddling. I didn’t feel anything, nothing, it seemed like the world had came to a stop. Then all of sudden it got real bright so bright I was blinded. The world hit play again and I laid there. Was it my time right here right now. All I wanted was people to know the real me was that so hard to ask not even my own parents could look at me ...