Stories tagged “bad idea”

  • Bad Idea

    I moved my hand over the bark of an old poplar, tracing a pattern with my index finger. I marveled at the fact that Mother Nature can weave an amazing tapestry, everything in perfect place, nothing seemed out of place, and if it did, it was beautiful. ...

  • Violence, Blood, and Money

    Thus ushered in, Ryan and Peter followed the lumbering hulk of a figure down a narrow, dimly lit corridor, approaching ever closer to the glowing source of noise and odor. Peter just kept mumbling, “Bad idea, bad idea…” “Shh,...

    • Author: THX 0477
    • Posted over 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Plucky Is As Plucky Does

    Our plucky heroine… Teffin didn’t feel very plucky. Some days she did, and in fact it was practically a one word summation of her idiom. Eight miles out into the woods near her home, late at night, and in the beginning throws of a Texas siz...

    • Author: THX 0477
    • Posted about 2 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Good Question

    Becky hiccuped. Another shot was definitely a bad idea. The cute guy who had finally come in, what was his name? Matt? Mike?- looked at her, shot glass in hand. “Cheers!” The tequila slammed into the back of her throat and burned on the way...

  • Splinter In My Mind (Mature)

    Look, I know it’s a bad idea. I know. There isn’t a lecture you could give me that I haven’t already given myself a dozen times today. And I try to stay away, I do. I never go looking for him. I keep to my duties and if he happens by,...