Stories tagged “14”
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14 Words
Its time for him to leave but he doesn’t want to leave her alone…
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A million emotions
My name. Spoken by him resonated within me like the vibrations you feel after a gong has been sounded. I stood motionless, a million emotions going through my mind. “Becky?” he asked, his smile fading as tears started to slide down my cheek...
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They don't make mitts for bullets
Harold falls to the forest floor, unable to stumble along any further. The pain in his leg is intense, and in the dead of the night he’s certain he can still see the bullet’s smoke rising off his thigh. Amber stops, but he yells at her to l...
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The most brilliant Dream
14; is it a lot or is it a little; is it enough to make one strong, or are they still brittle i’m in that cocoon, i havent seen the moon; just the sun, intensely bright, terminating the light but once i emerge; there’s a sudden surge; of co...
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Stranger
When I was fourteen, like many other fourteen-year-olds, I started high school. In the most cliché way, I remember first stepping into that big, intimidating building, backpack on, math book in hand. I remember the way my tennis shoes squeaked on the ...
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1110. XIV. 14.
The year 2222 is not that far away. A little over 200 years. A blink of the eye. A breath of the world. Not long ago people lived through the year 1111 and before that, though they didn’t know it, the year before year one. We pride ourselves on n...