Stories tagged “rocks”

  • Gomorrah, Tennessee

    It looked like I was going to have to take the bus home. Where only four hours ago had sat my spotless new silver Mercedes—still proudly displaying the dealer plates—there was now a car-sized lump of rock protruding from the bottom of a crater six ...

    • Author: uselessness
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Take Nothing For Granite

    “Are you sure you detected life?” the doctor quipped at the science officer. “There’s nothing here but rocks!” It was true. In all directions there were rocks; some more properly called pebbles, others perhaps boulders, an...

    • Author: April Raines
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • "I told you so."

    Rocks slip underfoot. Soft and warm, soothing water laps at my toes, pulls at my heart. The sunset glances off the water, sends stones of light skipping off the surface. Below… who knows what is below. But the surface looks perfect. Maybe that...

  • To Actually Care (Previously 'Smacked Meek') (Mature)

    I bet I’ll wet my beak In the inlet Of what trend setter’s seek, Shedding floating feather’s as I speak, Lending, doling, spending cheddar For the doting chatter boxes Flying off of crocs Snapping at me by the rocks The waves are lapp...

    • Author: Tad Winslow
    • Posted over 1 year ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Sit and Stand w/ Me; Simultaneously

    Do you Know how Rocks are When they’re large, Half sunken, Refusing to budge or barge? But when They’re shrunken To sand, Even then They are the same! Only now they fill your hand Dropping dry like strange rain On your toes, Supporting step...