I wake up each morning wondering what unexpected occurrences will confront me. Naturally, I hope for the best, but ‘best’ has its...

Everything ends. Family, other relatives, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and you are all temporary. Everything your five senses can...

Once in a while I feel as if a tsunami is forming at a great distance, getting closer every day, and it’s focused on me. I don’t know its...

Nova Central School Nova, NY 14414 Nov. 7, 20__ Dear Mr. and Mrs. Arnold, I am writing to you with concern for your son, Ben. I know that...

It’s not true that wood carvers have a chip on their shoulder. Out of all the wood carving clubs wood carvers may be very boring people...

I was far too young to die. Actually I was murdered. But when you get murdered at my young age of thirty-one, your vengeful spirit goes...

I fainted. As I was returning to reality I felt as if I was floating in a rocking and rolling boat. My head started to clear, but now I...

I woke to a pleasing memory of my Grandparents. A memory, not forgotten, but possibly fading. It was as if some internal stimulus was...

It was a dark and stormy night … Fuck you Edward Bulwer-Lytton, screw you Madeleine L’Engle, but most of all, piss off, Snoopy. It really...

Journal Entry NOVA is an astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright new star. That was the inspiration for the name...

I like water. Something about it attracts me, like a pleasant experience that I want to always have. I think that water likes me, too,...

I have been a detective first-grade for twenty of my thirty-four years as a police officer. Sure, after that many years, I am tired and...

“Shit,” I yelled as I ran to the parking lot in a torrential rainstorm. Just my luck, I muttered to myself. I had been working late in...

Christian Boyer is a twenty-one-year-old college graduate of Reverend Luke and Martha Boyer. Christian grew up in a deeply religious,...

Arriving home from work, tired and in a foul mood, Jack walked directly to his wife. “Fix me a brandy, the Korbell, not the cheap Mohawk...

PROLOGUE Approximately eighty-four million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, a meteor the size of a football stadium struck and...

I am Reggie (Reginald) Townsend, and this is my tragic story. Maybe I’m one of those mad scientist guys who gets obsessed or, perhaps...

“I’m sorry, Mary. I truly am. It won’t happen again. I promise.” Mary’s slender body ached from the bruised cheekbone and the black eye....

Cave Entrance It was an alien experience. Never had anything like it. Funny as a laughing clown, shocking as an unexpected bullet wound....

It’s difficult to write about this strange occurrence because I don’t know where to begin. I do know that I was in an airplane. How I got...