Everything was moving too fast. My thoughts were a confused jumble. It was evident that there were undercurrents operating of which I had been completely unaware. For some reason, I believed that my ignorance protected me because using my convoluted logic made it seem like…
Nicole opened her front door to find Rachel and Thomas standing on her porch. Nicole masked her irritation with a frozen smile. Nicole’s raised eyebrows telegraphed the question, “who the hell is this and why is she on my doorstep?” Thomas shrugged his shoulders and opened…
Someone was coming. Janet tensed up and strained her eyes against the darkness. Ethan started to speak and she angrily motioned for him to be silent. Dread bloomed in her as the sound of rustling vegetation became more pronounced. She grasped the talisman to reassure herself…
Daryl and I watched in silence as the mortally wounded man’s frantic flailing of limbs quickly lessened to a palsied twitch followed by stillness as his life’s blood drained out into the filthy carpet. Ordinarily, I would have been horrified by my actions and the…
Janet stomped out onto the compound parking lot. She was so angry that she needed air and ran through the first door she saw. Janet was pacing and didn’t sense a presence behind her. A current of electricity surged through her body, locking up all of her muscles. …
Rachel went back to her mother’s house fairly trembling with outrage. If her own family didn’t want her around then she would leave the house, but she would get even with them all. Rachel wouldn’t rest until they were all brought as low as she…
I spent the remaining hours before sunrise, tossing and turning in my bed feeling as though the stolen cell phone, cash, driver’s license and chit were burning holes in my purse. The next morning, I was up and dressed at the crack of dawn. I…
Janet had been sleeping fitfully all night. At midnight, she sank into an exhausted deep sleep. Images began to flash in her mind. Janet dreamed that she was back in the pantry of the abandoned house with her sister. She looked over at Andrea and realized they were children. She could…
Rachel examined her face in a small mirrored compact and used a powdered puff to repair tear tracks in her makeup. Joshua’s reflected face suddenly appeared over her shoulder and she nearly dropped the compact. He looked so much like their father Gabriel, the only father she…