It is a very long, dreary corridor. You hear a door slam behind you. You hear laughing and voices, but it is so faint you can scarcely understand what they are saying. You walk to the end of the dark,

When I first met Mike just over a year ago, he hadn’t expected it to go so well, but it was one of those random situations where familiarity and common interests made chatting together pleasant, so they

There was a warm feeling in the air of the laboratory. The other scientists were excited at the discovery of their magical discovery. The magic was so powerful that they could not believe that they had

"And this one will make me a fully fledged Mage?" Lord Andrew gestured at the circle of runes sketched out on the stone floor. He felt he was about to burst with anticipation, it had taken years

This was the first time I had felt like this. The hurt was throbbing and the memories flooding back of my youth. I had wondered during those times if something was wrong with me. When I met Krissy and

The girl did not look up when she entered her father's workshop. Her office had become a home of sorts, but she felt that it wasn't the same as being at home. She knew that she would be moving sometime,

You want your powers? If what you know is true, they're in my blood. Drink it and they'll be yours. Forever." It's hard to believe how a voice can be so seductive. I find myself drifting toward it.

“I must protest, deputies!” Thomas Putnam, Esquire, said, standing up from his seat. “These girls are obviously being made to manufacture some falsehoods against this unfortunate, young woman.” “Whose

I was awakened by an obnoxious buzzer. I swung my legs off the edge of my metal pallet, pushing myself up to a seated position and then stood up, groggily. The factory lights turned on, brightening my

I don’t know how it started, but the trouble between humans and mononoke started after the witches were all executed in the early 17th century. Before the witch burnings, the humans and the mononoke had

On Madoopalus, there is no dawn, no night. But there is day, when the Queen shines her face upon her newest subjects. On such a day, the carriage of the Prime Minister Euler hit a bump in the road, and

The team leader, Corporal Allen Coonrad, walked quickly through the snow-covered mountains of Scotland. The other members of the team, Corporal Kim Parker and Private Eugene Davis, followed closely behind

The smell of pine wafted through the air. As we rode, I soaked in the scenery. The Aranian hills were beautiful, lush with green vegetation and surrounded by fields of wildflowers. I felt Cragg's hands

As he was running away from his mother, he heard the whispers at being following. He knew for sure that he smelled something. His mother had gone crazy and she wasn't making sense. She was hiding something

Just like the water had come in and surrounded the beach, so too people came in and surrounded the town. We were left with little fertile land, so we looked for hardier survivors farther inland. When I

Turn on the light, I said to myself. Looking around the dimly lit room, I already noticed that I was not alone; there was another person, on the other side of the room. The person I was looking for was

“What’s the matter? You got a boo-boo?” “What do you think?” The man’s voice was cold and his face was twisted with anger. His blue eyes burned with a ravenous fire—an anger that would be impossible to

Just another glorious, sunny day in the history of the United States, another day of leisure on the white man's land. Christopher Columbus, an Italian Explorer in 1498 (not the one you're thinking about,

They needed to coordinate a date to go to the store and get some items. They knew what humans liked to have in their kitchens for a snack (salty snacks like chips and pretzels), but they could never agree

My time machine looks like a beat-up old motor cycle from the 1960s, in the days when such bikes were shiny and chromey. I call it my Time-Glider and have never told anyone about it. You see, no one believes