In the beginning they were just echoes that twisted around her own childish thoughts: at eight years old she was too young to alienate that one brash voice from her own inner dialogue. Now, however, she heard the distant reply like dying embers in her mind, "I'll always be here." - When a hunter takes Jenny captive, only time will tell who the true monster is. *Reviews Returned

When I left that house I thought I had taken everything of mine. Four years of clothes and possessions and furniture shoved into trash bags and wedged into the back of an economy van. Then his house went up in flames. Maybe it's just wishful thinking but I like to imagine the part of me he hated the most had a part in his death.

A short writing exercise following the events surrounding an auction of Unused Newborn items.

She would look back and remember this exact moment and wish it had gone a different way. She wished now that she had come up with something witty and haughty to wipe that sadistic grin off his face. The smell of cigarettes and blood permeated this memory like so many others. She replayed this moment over and over in the year to come and she came to realize she never had a chance.

Flash Fiction A high school student devises a macabre way to gift her class mates with a second chance.

A short psychological memoir of how a girl came to be sitting in the chair across from the head psychologist at a psychiatric hospital. **Warning: Graphic - Involves self-mutilation**

Not necessarily a short 'story'...but short none the less. This is the 1st in a series of unrelated 'shorts' that chronicle true events from the lives of unfortunate, every day people who feel like they don't fit into the mold that society, religion and heritage has created for them. In this piece, a couple is simply unable to have children.

A poem of retribution from a woman scorned.

A metaphorical piece about a tumultuous love affair. A Siren and a Captain.

A short metaphorical piece about the act of falling in love.