Nemophilist

You cannot run forever. You can try, but each time you think you’ve pulled ahead, you will glance over your shoulder and it will be me who has gained ground. You can run until you’re unable to take another step,...

Tonight

Tonight you're perfect, because we have more in common than you'd like to admit. I can see it in the hollowness of your eyes, the all consuming void that's steadily tearing away at your soul. It leaves you blank and...

Potential

Yellow sunlight crept in through the windows that lined the hall, but through the aged and dirty glass it only managed to cast a sickly fraction of its full potential. It had been years since I had last been here,...

Alice: Part 2

This is a continuation and if you missed part one, you can read it here. After leaving Alice’s house, I walked a few miles across town to a bus stop. This was the part of a hit that required the...

Alice

Alas, I have once again returned to stir envy in your hearts and souls. Did I mention how AWESOME this course is??? The prompt for this piece was to confine two characters to a kitchen, one of whom does not...

The Cost of Love

Behold: Sam's fiction assignment based on the instruction to write a short story starting with the line 'Where were you last night?' “Where were you last night?” His voice was soft, but there was an underlying edge. He was tired...