• Experiment TCA-276 (pt5)

                    Morgan paced the office, biting a fingernail. Rita was pale and sweaty, taking shallow breaths, but her eyes followed Morgan back and forth. Morgan had spent a minute crying after she realized the police weren’t going to come to their rescue, but she’d snapped out of it when she heard the pounding on the…

  • Experiment TCA-276 (pt4)

                    “I think they’re breaking in,” Morgan said, leaning out of the office door. “I think I heard glass breaking,”                 “Okay…” Rita’s jaw was clenched and she was sweating as she tried to keep her leg still. “There’s a security door that closes over the stairway… The key pad is on the wall… Type…3-4-6-7…

  • Experiment TCA-276 (pt 1)

    *New short story I’m putting together for you. This will be another first draft posting like my story When the Rains Came. Hope you enjoy :)*                 Morgan watched the steady drip of coffee fall into her cup. She went cross-eyed for a moment before shaking her head and stretching. The shift in her sleeping…

  • When the Rains Came Part 3

    (part 1 and part 2) “Hey, new kid!” Marcus yelled across the hall as the new student tried to squeeze through the crowd. He looked around, eyes wide as though expecting something bad. “Yeah, you! Come here,” Ethan motioned him over to their group. “Hi,” he said once he’d reached them. “I’m Kevin.” “I’m Marcus,…

  • When the Rains Came Part 2

    *Part 1 available if you missed it* Drew folded the newspaper over to read the last of the article, shaking his head. “But that doesn’t explain the people that weren’t missing until the next day.” He’d heard the frantic calls on his police scanner. People that had been safe during the storm had gone out…

  • When the Rains Came part 1

    “ And then the rains came. They came down from the hills and up from the sound. And it rained a sickness. And it rained a fear. And it rained an odor. And it rained a murder… Soaking. Spreading. Penetrating. And it rained an omen. And it rained a poison.” – Tom Robbins Annie was…