The skies were dark and cloudy. The

There was the sound again.

It sounded like a beeping that one would hear from a monitor in a hospital.

You may think you know what you've seen, but in hindsight, nothing was what it seemed. Memory threads

He stopped looking on the outside long ago. Your clothes, makeup, and skin tone no longer mean anything

The cattails thrashed in the heavy wind and pouring rain. The sky remained dark and ominous as Leah

Lisa listened to her friend as she twisted the phone cord around her finger.
Richard, her Mom's live

The party to celebrate my mother’s fortieth birthday was a memorable night for many reasons, but

Runaway

The hot sun shone on his back as he walked along the dirt road. His footsteps were loud; his

I stared at the paper for minutes, not fully prepared for what I was reading. It could have been hours.

Gone, he has gone and left me here, with a smile and a kiss and a wave and a suggestion to come and

It was just another day in my boring life. Mother was determined to find some post Christmas bargains.

The Runaway

Her left arm was stretched out as far as she could reach, to grasp on to something that

Tears of anger and hatred pound on the pillow beneath my swollen face. My head feels like a trapped

TOMORROW... AFRICA.

At first appearance she was rather a delightful child, with her two golden brown

Ruth.

The last light of the day.
'What's on TV?' is a common demand. The dinner is bland. We are all bored.
The

School Uniforms

Running away seemed like a rash decision but, Max had thought about it lingeringly.

12:56 am. The red digital clock blazed on the bathroom counter. Ellen had been staring at her face

Looking down from the Hollywood Hills, the L.A smog set like a murky cloud under a sunny sky.
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