glimpses shared by our authors
  • The room is packed with people who are just as shy and reserved as i am, alcohol has loosened them up and oiled up their social machines. Now they're all ...
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  • "You 'ere cuz I doin' a bad job?" Samuel asks, movin' his right hand 'way from the gin. He turn completely to me, raisin' one eyebrow, an' givin' me a ...
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  • find the same boy standing there. He had dark, shaggy hair and a nice face. "Um," she started. "Sure. Yeah, thanks." She handed him the bottle and he squirted some ...
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  • Vroiam sa scriu in fiecare zi si ajung sa scriu la aproape 3 luni distanta fata de prima pagina. Tipic. Am trecut peste dezamagirea proiectului, si scarbei provocate de modul ...
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  • Roxanne took out her earrings and the stud from her nose. She could feel the sway of the ship under her feet. At first, it did make her stomach uneasy, ...
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  • Day after the crying fest. Feeling significantly better, as I usually do after these things. Not completely though...still a bit unmotivated, a a teeny bit glum...but better. Maybe what I ...
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  • "If you're lonely, be patient." Through a video poem with background music and animation, a homely bespectacled type thirty something whispered to me this morning, on YouTube. I've decided I ...
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  • Andrew made a valiant effort not to snicker as Oliver dashed away from the septic tank, retching. Carlos, however, suffered no such compunctions and guffawed loudly and raucously at his ...
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  • I guess it's hard when I will suddenly get to thinking that I maybe shouldn't be pursuing a psych degree, that maybe I really should just be in a major ...
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  • Fo' a moment I almos' forgot she was a slave. I still saw 'er color, there starin' at me right in my eye, mockin' an' laughin' at me fo' carin' ...
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