Stories tagged “surprises”

  • Choices

    A gun is a way of making choices, Pamela, her father’s voice echoed in her head, the memory redolent of sunlit afternoons. But it ain’t the only way. Remember that. Her young hands were practiced as they ran over the contours of the gun. Th...

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

  • No return without receipt.

    I glanced to Mary’s smiling face as I selected her present from the dwindling pile in front of me. It was silly, to have a party like this – I was turning seventeen, not seven! Why had she teamed up with my own mother against me? Jeeze R...

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

  • They're Not Real

    “C’mon. It was just a movie.” Mike tried to hide his smile. “What if a nuclear catastrophe waits around the corner?” “Then the bugs will be a hundred times bigger than they are now. Possibly even carnivorous.” ...