Rachel is driving me to the place where she works. I look out the window, watching the green blur of vegetation on the side of the highway as the engine hums monotonously. I know this is a...

You put me on an altar at the end of your room like a holy relic. Before you bought me, you spent days looking at me online and at the store, dreaming of how different I was from the old box tha...

Rebecca Primwell is a historical figure known for making global warming in September of 1803, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Primwell, only 6 or 7 at the time, confided in her mother that ...

I didn’t believe my dear brother Fox when he told me of his plans.

“I’m going to the strange old man, in the cabin at the edge of the forest,&rdq...

To be taken with a grain of salt:

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking about the upcoming elections, and which side will win. At the very least...

You and I used to sit by the old oak tree when it was warm, and the sun beamed down in slow leaden waves, and the wind lifted armadas of dandelion seeds into the air for us to play with. B...

I had decided a long time ago that I’d resist with all my might if Love, with her frilly blue summer dress and large red handbag, tried her routine on me. I’d seen her at restaurants, movie theater...

(So I've been ogling over Symbiote's "The Iconography Of Angels" since I read it, and it undoubtedly inspired this RECord for Tori's 10min challenge. Seriously Symbiote, you write such a g...

Is that what your teacher said? That’s why you’re upset? Well, it’s a great question. But...before I answer it, your Grandpap is going to tell you a story from a long whi...

Blink

I’m a small child and I’m at a birthday party. Maybe it’s my birthday. There are balloons and ribbons strewn about the carpet. I reach out my

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Atlantic City.

I’d never been there. I’d never been gambling. Honestly, I’d never put much thought into any of it. Sure, friends had regaled me w...

INT. LIVING ROOM - EVENING

JENNY, a twentysomething, sits on her couch as she reads a novel. She’s had a long day, and the quiet suits her well. Kids play outside, birds ...

Five souls sat in the lifeboat. They shivered on the cracked mirror of the Atlantic, weathering the inky sea of stars that lay above and below them. Gusts of cold air skated along the surf...

Jill and her Soul

Did not get along

For one what was right

For the other was wrong

 

...

There lies a strange little house on a strange little hill, and this strange little hill is surrounded by other hills that make up the town of Cheerless. This house, the townspeople of Che...

Two little imps lurked in a shadowy corner of the unassuming living room. I do mean imps in the literal sense, by the way; these were not some vexatious little children to whom the term &l...

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Edgar was, without question, a rambunctious sort

Who arrived at the carnival in parental escort

In the bright circus lights of colors assort

The twelve year o...

Annabelle was tired. Her eyelids sagged, exaggerating the dark bags under her eyes. Her dark hair was starting to fray, and her shoulders slouched. It was time to put Mary to bed.

The sun sat out like a blurry orange stove burner. People held out inside except for a handful of stubborn busybodies and some punk ass kids. The kids looked like they were on the verge of...

(This is based on a neighborhood bully from my childhood. I was always so annoyed with him as a kid, but looking back I can see things more clearly for what they were.)

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NARRATOR:

Our person of interest, Allegory, is sitting at his kitchen table eating lunch. He has common enough features: brown hair, brown eyes, and wears a name-t...

By chance, a black hole and a star find each other floating in a popular new nebula only a few aeons old.

 

STAR:

I actually wrote this about a year and a half ago for this site, but unfortunately I haven't really been active for about a year. Since then I've rewritten it a bit, and I figure I might as ...