College sucks. The teachers don’t like you, they don’t care if you pass or fail, and they certainly never give an easy assignment. Maybe it’s just me they hate, or maybe the rest of my class mates feel it too. My track coach in particular hates me. Today he made me run eight stadiums, also … Read more
It was Independence Day, just before the fireworks started. Away from home for the first time, John and Ben, both 18, were just watching TV in the small old house they had rented on the outskirts of town. That’s all they could afford while going to university. The term had ended and they would be … Read more
My name is Sammie Fromm, a 16 year old high school sophomore. I live in Miami with my 20 year old step brother Devin. I came from Russia 6 years ago but Im fluent in English. I get straight As and my goal is Harvard University. Most people say I have a better than good … Read more
Such Good Friends The Bus Ride Teeny and Carla and thirteen other girls on the school soccer team had just finished loading the bus for a trip to a neighboring town to play a soccer game when a car pulled up in front of them, partially blocking the bus. Two men jumped out of the … Read more
Troy was getting tired of canned food and decided to do some hunting. Get some fresh meat for dinner. He had been tracking a deer for a bit when he came to a small pond, hidden amongst the trees. He had often found animals here rehydrating, which made them easy prey. He could hear some … Read more
It’s a nice summer evening. The sun just started to set. Jenny wishes she could have stayed longer and watch the sunset with her friends but she has to be up early the next morning for her swimming practice and she still has a long drive ahead of her. She approaches the parking lot. It’s … Read more
Afternoon break I watched her as she finished her shopping and then made my way out to the parking lot so that I would be able to see her leave the store. I saw her come out and started walking in a direction that would force her path to intercept mine. You wouldn’t believe how … Read more
Gabriella lay in bed in the strange room in the house of the house party, wreaked of the night before. Dave had given her a couple of sleeping pills and let her sleep. He locked the door and went downstairs. There were still some people partying. The curtains were closed so it still felt as … Read more
It was one of those days of long eve studies that would leave me catching a late bus home, though on that night, I wasn’t alone. A classmate of mine needed some help in programming, and for lack of better things to do, I did just that. As we left the faculty and made our … Read more
I went on with life as I had always done before. No girl, no fun, no life. I went to work as I had always done before. About two weeks later, the same guy and Mandi walked in. She came up to me and ordered this time. “I want a number 3 without cheese or … Read more
It was quite a bit chilly today Morgan thought as she shivered in her tree stand. She had just gotten over a cold and almost didn’t come, but the family needed meat. Her voice was gone and her throat itched some, but she was no longer sick. It had been a new feeling for her. … Read more
“…of the total number of baryons predicted by Big Bang nucleosynthesis, as inferred from density fluctuations…” there was a knock at the door. Newlyn had been studding again. He did this when ever he could. It started about eighteen years ago as a cooping technique to deal with the pain of his greatest regret. As … Read more
fucking idiots! Kelly crumpled the small bit of paper in her hand and threw it hard at the door, the effect was underwhelming and just barely had enough force to tap the 3″ thick plate of solid steel that was the door to her office. Nobody took her warnings seriously; the pool had grown at … Read more
June Mondragon watched bemused as the other women struggled to pull their chins up over the bar. She hated the idea that the physical standards were lower for females. She herself had trained for this for years and could do 18 pull ups before she had to take a break, with the only actual requirement … Read more
Patient 92 was no longer a patient. Her doctor had been reassigned to a new experiment overseas and had to leave her and the branch behind. Her time with him was very brief, only a couple weeks of intimacy and peace before he got the news. It was a weird and painful goodbye. He had … Read more
“Dude, give it back!” I yelled at my older brother Jason. “Dick want his little dolly back?” Jason taunted back at me holding the figurine just out of my reach. Curse him for being just a few inches taller than me. I jumped up for it, but he has quick reactions being a basketball player … Read more
The Sinister Six had been beaten by Spider-Man on countless occasions. This time would be different Harry Osborne thought. This time Spider-Man thought he was dead. Harry cackled as he flew on his Goblin Glider with Mary Jane slumped over his shoulder. This time wasn’t about domination, money, or power. It was about the humiliation … Read more
For a few moments after she woke things were normal- then the pain flooded in on her. It had been months since he had left her, and the initial sharp pain had dulled, now subsided it hung about her like a lead weight. It suffused her life and suffocated her soul. Nothing really mattered, he … Read more
I feel this needs to be said – This is a complete work of fiction, the characters and circumstances are not real. Also, if you liked my story, please up-vote it. If you didn’t like it, go ahead and vote but leave a comment as to why. Everyone could use constructive criticism. If the only … Read more
Gwen Stacy had been investigating a file she swiped off her father’s desk. Her father being the caption of the police he never would have willingly given Gwen the file. Stacy being a former Oscorp employee knew the evils of the company, and how Harry Osborn had become the green goblin like his father. Although … Read more
