glimpses shared by our authors
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Tokyo is a massive place. A massive city full of tiny places to stay. My hostel, for instance, is tucked around a back street corner at a throwaway train stop ... read more -
"I should get dressed." "Yeah," Derek said offhandedly. He took Nell's dishes and put them in the sink. Nell jumped from her chair (when she sat, her feet dangled about ... read more -
The idea of writing comes in to the mind every now and then. the confusion of what to write and how to write always holds back the true intention to ... read more -
June 10th, 2010 2:54 am David, We have been together just over six months now. I know that a lot of the time we've been together you have done a ... read more -
She woke, gasping, inhaled the most refreshing air she'd ever had in her life. Drenched in sweat, she surveyed her surroundings to convince herself she was in her own room. ... read more -
Once there were two teenagers. They'd both been hurt by loved ones in the past, and after being friends themselves for a while, soon found solace in one another. They ... read more -
At 5:12 PM on Sunday afternoon, detective Jane McNally woke up from another daylong nightmare. She had wallowed in light sleep for a couple of hours but failed to break ... read more -
She squinted back. "Nope," she said, after staring for a moment. Her eyes peeked from behind slightly parted bangs, slowly blinking. Sometimes it could take me awhile to figure out ... read more -
I held my breath. No one understood why. I was twelve when my mom asked me a question that caught me so off guard; all I could do was hold ... read more -
I held my breath. She noticed. My dad still didn’t ask me day after day how everything was. It didn’t matter really, I would have just said fine. I held ... read more
