The electronic chime above the door went off as it did every time there were customers. Megan walked in with Carrie trailing slightly behind her. She felt an odd compulsion to lead her sister by the hand, but was wise to refrain from doing so lest she be accused of going on a so-called […]

    For the rest of the week, Kazard was on edge. His close run-in with the boss’s rare interest with his personal life and the fact that Arya was behaving normally around him, if not talking to him as much as she usually did. She hadn’t spoken a single word with him the entire […]

Then Mary turned her full attention to her ex-husband. Thomas crouched on his hands and knees at her feet and gazed up at her with an expression that was both embarrassed and fearful. She looked down at her ex-husband and smiled condescendingly at the sight of him confined to a playpen wearing nothing but doubled […]

“Ok, let’s go and find one,” Donna said with a huge smile. “And just so you know, I like you wearing my things too, El. If I’d had a daughter instead of a son, I’m sure we’d have shared a lot of my things. My mother and I loved to share her pretty things. This […]

      The nurse laid me down on a little cot and then helped me out of my jeans. I then lay down with my eyes closed wishing I was somewhere else. I felt the now familiar rustling of plastic, the too-cool cleansing of the wipe, and then the dry paper feeling of the […]

I tried to attain some form of cheerful smile for Lea’s sake during this situation that the three of us were in, but ultimately failed as she saw right through my disguise. With a hostile motion, she slowly walked toward us. I took a decent sized chair nearby and sat on it and with my […]

Of course, he had to break the barrier to creating selective brain degeneration, there was no way he could test the current serum, which could cause total regression, on an actual person. It was a week after he had his medical that Eric received an e-mail from the New Zealand Immigration Service telling him he […]

          The judge smacked her gavel down almost instantaneously as every eye in the courtroom turned to look at me. “Order, order,” the judge said. “Young lady, you need to take a seat.” Properly admonished, I hastily took a seat, though I couldn’t help but notice the judge attempting to hold […]

Chastity shook her head and tried to speak, but laughter stood in her way at first. “I’m sorry,” she gasped, and with that was able to gain the upper hand. “I just had this really funny thought.” “What about?” Jack asked, genuinely curious. Remembering what that thought was made Chastity blush. “Um…” Jack arched an […]

    The scene before me was both beautiful and kind of scary. It was like the park had been frozen in time. The only sounds I could hear were the creaking of tree branches and the distant cars that were passing the park entrance. I was deep into the park, past the fountain and […]