Stories tagged “surprise”
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The Summer my Daddy used the Baseball Bat
I’ve had this idea for a while, but it really came to life when I listened to a song called White Houses by Vanessa Carlton. It really inspired me to write, and I hope you like my idea (: ~ I sat in the front seat of my mother’s station w...
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Boo
He sat quietly, plans of how the attack would unfold were spiking through his mind. She walked in. “Boo” he shouted as he leapt from behind the bed. He looked as the horror subsided from her face and her beaming beautiful smile flashed at h...
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Sleeping in the City of Dreams
I stood with my back to the closed door and stared at the ceiling, a grin splitting my face, something doing a tango in my stomach. H was… no, not perfect, but simply… Right. He’d coped spectacularly with the ceilidh; Sandra, 16 at la...
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Birthday
She asked him “well what have you got for my Birthday?” He flashed back “well now that will be a surprise” A surprise it would be, as she would not be participating in her next birthday celebration.
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Something
“Katie, where are you taking me?” We just finished dinner and were now leaving the restaurant. She said she had a surprise for me. I’m not one for surprises. “For all the years I’ve know you, you have ruined every surprise...
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Corporate Zombie Attack!!
He was standing in the front of the auditorium, beginning his “uplifting” talk in light of the recent zombie attack. The teenagers were gathered in the ghastly orange chairs, barely listening. He began, "ZOMBIES. What image come to min...
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Surprise Customer
Mitch heard the scuffle of shoes and he stiffened, ready for his next customer. He stayed in the shadows though, in case it wasn’t a customer. The footsteps stopped and there was an eerie silence before the man spoke. “I’m here for th...
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Misery Loves Company
Mitch desperately wanted his hoodie back. He couldn’t deal anymore tonight. His eyes were full of tears and he just ran home. He ran past the part where his legs screamed in protest. He ran past the part where his lungs threatened to come out of ...
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Chocolate Pudding
The pudding sat in a bowl on the counter, uneaten. There was no one else in the apartment to eat it. For that matter, Jeff didn’t even know who’d made it. He hadn’t. As he flipped the light switch on, he heard a faint sound, and he tu...
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What Devon Saw In Her Eyes For Just A Moment
Well she did ask you to tell her. I took a deep breath and just spit it out. “You looked like you needed a friend. Like someone had hurt you and you just needed to get away.” Well there, you said it. Kalyla dropped her gaze for a second, bu...
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Birthday surprise
“Hello, my name is God but you can call me dad” the old man smiled benevolently at the intoxicated man before him “Wow, you’re either a bad comedian or a drunk nut-job who somehow got past the security” The drunk 20 year o...
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Cookie Dough, Reeses, And Female Intuition
I’m standing in line for ice cream with this sun-tanned California boy, Devon, who’s obviously more perceptive than I first thought. “What kind do you want?” He asked, distracting me from my train of thought. “Chocolate ch...
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The Soup Kitchen Ninja
“I’m tellin’ ya, this one’s fr’real!” I shook my head as I dumped an armload of bowls into the sink. “Sacco, think about it: how likely is it that there’s a ninja that uses only kitchen utensils as weapon...
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YAY! Wait...
My mother smiled at me, it WAS my birthday, everyone was happy. My mother put a blindfold over my eyes, and led me out into the backyard. My mother told me that the present was very expensive, and that she hoped I liked it. The blackness covering my e...
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homecoming surprise
When the homecoming committee voted on an outdoor homecoming everyone was on board. The girls took to decorating the lower field with white awnings and many candles. The boys built a elevated wooden dance floor in shop class. The gym teacher’s br...
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Man in the Box
I could feel the expression on my face start to change. Another dimension? Say what you will about Lovecraft and Star Trek, but … it’s not real. “You mean…you just plucked me out of our reality and put me here?” My express...
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Time Heals All Wounds (III)
“Tell me you’re becoming a fat hoe,” My father says to me, his eyes not moving from my stomach. “No, actually, I’m not. People get fat when they’re pregnant,” I say. I’m done with lying to them, they need...
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Impatient for Fate
“Excuse me, gentlemen,” I began suavely, leaning on the empty half of the table. Four or five of my male peers occupied the other half, a bit surprised at my bold approach. “Would any of you be interested in participating in the ballr...
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What I Wish Would Happen (Part III: Wow)
“So you’re basically saying that I… I’m your fallback. Your plan B. Your second choice.” The words spill out of my mouth and swirl in the open air between us. I wish they didn’t sound so bitter. I wish I could pull t...
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Blooms
In a few hours, I returned to my room and looked the flowers over thoroughly. They seemed a little perkier, but I couldn’t see much change. As my phone call with John rapidly approached, I wondered what I was going to tell him about the flowers. ...
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Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
My mother married into Blue Blood; my grandmother had “a thing” for engineers; and my great-grandmother settled with an oil tycoon. My mother would always say, “next to every Esposito woman is a success story.” Doctors had the ability to coax m...
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Tee and La: Unwanted Surprise
For a moment I couldn’t see anything. It was all to bright. Then, everything became much darker. It took a while for my eyes to get used to the lighting. But, when I could see, the room we were in looked familiar. It was large, with huge windows,...
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Shattered
I’m an impartial kind of guy. Granted, I prefer women — their soft lips pressing against me, the way blood-red nails rake across my sides — but I’ll take what I can get. Thinking about the way a man’s tongue flickers again...
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Cemetery Surprises
A giggle erupted from behind me. I turned expecting exactly what I saw- nothing. Mary delighted in hiding from me, proving that the graveyard was hers and reminding me that I was a guest. Slim, cold hands slipped over my eyes. A new game today? Well I ...
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First Impressions
When I turned, the girl who stood there was as different from my Mary as she possibly could be. While she looked roughly the same age, perhaps nine-teen, she was curvy, heavy in the hips and generously endowed. Her eyes were confident and full of misch...