Morality is something questionable, built upon a multitude of variables. I learned from a very early age that those who shout louder about their holiness are the ones hiding the ugliest sins. If even Adonis drowned in his vanity, how would a mere mortal fight against temptation? That parent-teacher meeting had two big effects. After ...

People ask parents what they would do for their kids. Most of them will answer that they would die for them. Sacrificing yourself is easy because life ends in the natural border of the human limit. I would kill for mine. More than once. Soon after those fortunate events, the school hired Richard Steele and ...

When big felines see their prey, they wait as long as they need to make the first move and finish their hunt successfully. And that was my time in college. In my early years, Shanaya gave me a promotion and I became a hostess upon entering college. Now, her restaurant was a success and was ...

The life I left behind was the beginning of a world anew, filled with excitement and possibilities, far from any violence not born within me. After hours of riding at night, I arrived in the big city in the morning. Everything looked like it came out of a movie: lots of stores, fancy cars, and ...

The flow of memories brought me back to my childhood. We lived in a small town near the state’s capital, and our community was like all other small ones in our country: embrace tradition, go to church, and avoid sin. My mother, Susan, was a beautiful, fair-skinned blond woman. She was suspicious about me being ...

“Ugh…” My ears buzzed, louder and louder. A headache joined it and amplified the pain tingling through my body. My neck, arms, back, and legs all ached. Pain pulsed through me. That was good, though. Pain brought me closer to reality. I tried to move, but that made everything hurt more. I growled with discomfort, ...

The landlord was right. The passing trains behind her row home had become white noise. Hattie lived her life around the comings and goings of thousands of commuters. She was one of them. Departed at 6:39, returned at 5:10. The train rattled like a dog shaking the rain from its fur just before it dipped ...

Read entire series The last thing Julie remembered was Old Hank pointing a taser at her. It felt as if she had been electrocuted. Not sure if she was dead or alive, she felt her skin crawling with tiny bugs as she lay on the damp ground. Unable to see her hand in front of ...

Read One through Eight The plan was to land in San Francisco and purchase a vehicle. The address of the business was in Kansas City ‘on the Missouri side.’ Pearl had never been to the U.S., so she had no idea what they meant by that statement. She just followed directions and only asked questions ...

Read One Through Seven Holly, excited to end midterms with A’s in her classes, decided to surprise her parents by driving home rather than heading to Miami with her sorority sisters for spring break. She knew it would be all mayhem and debauchery. Plus, Zack asked her specifically if she were going so they could ...