glimpses shared by our authors
  • I can't bring myself to do it yet. Two and a half months later...and I still can't watch SNL, because it reminds me of him so much. He is everywhere, ...
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  • They watched him from the shade of a palm thatched roof. Their legs were draped in colorfully dyed, loose harem pants, their feet bare and covered in a mat of ...
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  • Something about just sitting here alone makes me wonder about what life could be like. I think about when I roleplay with my characters and how I live my life ...
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  • Pain was everything. Relationship after relationship was built on the theory that pain was the answer. Pain would take away the doldrums of everyday life, it would create a new ...
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  • Violetta didn't know. She had left, she had come back, she didn't know what to do. He had lost his appeal, yet the musky smell of his unshaven face in ...
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  • When Alma broke up with that good-for-nothing, I said to myself, “There. That’s settled, and we will just write this off as a phase.” I am often quick to do ...
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  • "The thing. The reason you called me." "Oh, right. I thought that would be obvious. Paul... Looked out of your window lately?" "Not really, I- What in the name of ...
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  • First he cut off his ear and let his spirit leak out. It was black and viscous, and it dribbled slowly into a clay bowl. "Is it supposed to look ...
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  • Tonight was a night of many firsts. 1. I went to a bar with five, beautiful friends of mine at 10PM at night and stayed until almost 1. 2. I ...
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  • blink his eyes. Tears streamed down his face, and Sophia felt tears start to streak her cheeks too. She threw herself on the ground beside him and lifted his body ...
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