Short stories: Adventures in life 18 Articles

by Doug Gardner

In 1966, a friend of mine, Mike Miller, invited me to go to a football game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. The Green Bay Packers were going to play the Minnesota Vikings. Mike's father, I was informed, was a college budd...read more

by Kerry Johnson

"I have to go Mom! Dean and I are going to build a go-cart today," I pleaded with her. I was anxious to get out the door as only a 10-year-old could be. My mother had other ideas, though. She wanted me to finish cleani...read more

by Annalou Mack

A Day in the Life of a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine Can it really be morning? There's no sun shining through the drapes. Turn on the overhead light, look at the clock yes, it's morning it's actually eight o'cloc...read more

by hatter

A letter from the author: To my readers who are following the story titled "The will to survive," I apologize that nothing has been published for a few weeks. My daughter was sick. I love my writing, but I love my family ...read more

by John Kennedy

I remember the summers, the blistering hot summers in the South. I remember the itchy cotton fields, and the cotton wagons we used to play in. It's amazing how we remember childhood memories so vividly, so clear, just like...read more

by Leslie Shill

Sushi with Mr. Kenzo. The pathway was part of my usual evening constitutional walk. I imagined that even though it ran almost the entire length of a well-known park that it was somehow my own secret walkwa...read more

by Forman Skidsdon

I CHANG (PART II) "The Prophesy" "Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall t...read more

by Ramas Syre

It was just my father and I in the boat that day. "I'm glad you didn't invite Bob again, he always sits in my spot," I said to my dad, crafting another J-shaped worm at the end of my line. I had prepared my rod this ti...read more

by Jonathan Clayton

A Lost Childhood. A True Story of Decision. Johnny left home when he was sixteen. His tale is a common one. Sad, but very common. His entire life had been a waking nightmare. He suffered every abuse that you dare to think...read more

by Norman Mc Namara

The Adventure's Of Billy Gillam Billy was a scamp! His mother knew it, his Dad knew it, his brothers and sisters certainly knew it and the neighbours had been saying it for years, but to his grandad he was just a "La...read more

by Gulrukh Tausif

A Midnight Adventure Khurram closed his book with a satisfied sigh and put it down softly on the bedside table. His twin brother Talha was sleeping soundly and snoring a little. It was well after midnight. Khurram got u...read more

by Jill Jacks

Jennifer was forty years old. In fact her birthday was New Years Eve. The night of Julie's bash. No one had known it was her birthday. Most certainly they didn't know her age. It shouldn't have been too hard for anyone to ...read more

by Cynthia Wolfe

"Sssh. You'll wake them." she whispered as she rolled off top him. They had just fallen out her second story window. She couldn't stop herself from giggling. She'd never done anything bad in her life. They snuck down the r...read more

by J. D. Adams

The massive ridge lines of Mt. Jefferson plummet downward through timberline and across miles of the high country, carved by rushing snow melt. On the skyline shoulders of the mountain is a strange world of torn clou...read more

by Tina Mead

International I stood at the top of the mountain, looking at the path at my feet. It didn't look so bad. I looked farther along the narrow way: although it became wider, it also became much steeper, and much more in...read more

by Chantae Reden

SCATTERED He knew he would leave, he knew he just couldn't stay in one place. He loved her wholeheartedly but there was a desire within him that made him run, he needed to find something, anything. He would roam the wor...read more

by Ellen Hoover

The Three Musketeers Everyone has heard the story of "The Three Musketeers" that lived during the Middle Ages haven't they? But no one has heard of these "Musketeers" have they? Before, they were Men of HOnor and now,...read more

by Randall Gibbons

WE'VE GOT SOMETHING IN COMMON The train ride from Naples was kind of boring. The countryside in central Italy was not too exciting to look at. It was mostly fields and such, and if judging by appearance only, it cou...read more