As a little girl, the people around me seemed different. They all looked at me funny. I was always told by my loving mother that they were envious. I did not know what they could be jealous of, definitely...

“Just take a deep breath,” I hear from my coach behind me. I finally open my eyes to see a line of people waiting for the start lined up along the right side as if they were waiting for the grand opening...

I suppose I should start at the beginning - or now, given that time and my life have been as unchanging as the barren landscape I walk. I’ve been on this pilgrimage as long as I’ve had a will to live,...

Eternity. Eternity scares people. Nothing in all of history scares and enthralls people more. Countless lives wasted and lost, all for the search of eternity. Every culture tried their own sense of immortality,...

Timid. All that early Monday morning Jack felt uneasy about the procedure later in the day. He dreaded the idea of getting his wisdom teeth pulled out for an insurmountable amount of time, but now that...

  The Grams packed up the car to make the ten-hour trip to North Carolina. They were headed for Charlotte, not for a family vacation but for a wedding. Uncle Brian was finally getting married,...

He didn’t have a name, not a real one. The townspeople knew him as the Outsider, but no one could remember when they first started calling him that. If asked, they’d say he’d always been there, but...

Everyone in the small town of Carlton Minnesota knew Alice Fields. The Fields moved to town when Alice was about nine years old. Right away the other children could tell how odd Alice was. She still talked...

Twins wasn’t the right term. No, the word “twins” conjures images of cutesy little girls, matching dresses and bobby socks slipping down ankles, hand in hand, pigtailed and precious. Twins were mirror...

  The child began playing with his green army men on the floor, imagining an exuberant battle as he smashed the small, plastic soldiers together. The mother had left the room and went to the kitchen...

I walk into my office bright and early on a rainy Monday morning.  Walk over to my desk, sit down, open my laptop and what do I see?  An application for a job at my company.  Can I not escape this bumbling...

Medic! George Cameron caught shrapnel from a mortar the Germans sent his way. The blast left him unconscious and unaware of his surroundings. With the bullets whistling by, George tried to find his fox...