Short Story

An electronic beep of an alarm clock begins Crystal's day. She wakes up, groggy, swinging her legs to the edge of her bed while rubbing her shoulder. The cold wooden floor against her feet sends small shivers up her back, as she walks across the room to her dresser. She thumbs through her shirts in the top drawer, quickly deciding on a black stone wash tee. She spends even less time choosing her pants, grabbing the first pair of pants in the bottom drawer, dark blue skinny jeans. In the bathroom she quickly showers, styles her hair, and does her make-up, making herself look presentable for her job. She wakes up her son, who after ten minutes drags himself out of bed, and gets ready for the day. She hands him the lunch she packed for him,

The lopsided battle raged for over two hours, the Army and Marines, also cleared the housing area. They captured seventy-five of the enemy combatants to include one make believe General, who told them they had no right to hold him as the United States of America no longer existed as far as he was concerned. Finally, out of exasperation at hearing the man rant and rant, Captain Gaston, who was now in Tomakow headquarters, had him tied and gaged then set into a corner so they didn’t have to listen to him anymore.

Imogen’s class went by very slow. The clock on the wall in the front of the stiff, plain room went by painfully slow. Imogen knew that she should be paying more attention on this, but the thought of finally knowing her biological parents and why they gave her up for adoption made her completely forget about everything going on, imagining what her mom would be like. In the middle of day dreaming, the class got up and out of their seats and started to leave.

“Mello, what are you doing~?” (y/n) asked the blond who was busy to read a file.

At half past nine Matilda picked up her bookmark and closed the book around it. She rose, walked across the room and put it back in the bookcase. She placed her glasses in the case and put it where she always kept them. Without looking at John, she went to the bathroom like she always did at half past nine.

“I’m bored.” a young man said, after looking at the clock. He was laying on a couch in living room in a weird position. Few hours have passed, and he didn’t do anything else. He was just staring at this clock, that was ticking every second.

The ring of a screeching alarm clock awoke Peyton from slumber as she questioned where she was. She then remembered that Bree had stayed the night and apparently, hadn't been phased by the intolerable clock. Peyton pulled of her covers exhausted from a night of pizza, movies, and Uno. She woke Bree up and they trudged down the stairs out of complete starvation to the refrigerator. She pulled out the orange juice and made two glasses, she also put some toast in the toaster. Her mom came down the stairs with her hair in a tight bun and a pleasant smile on her face. As far as Peyton was concerned this was just a normal day, but what she didn't know was that this day would be far from normal.

Gran sat on her living room couch and stared at the front door, fearing Zach would never return, but also fearing he would. She spread her hands around the Cartier jewelry box, knowing she should’ve told the truth about the watch, but once the secrets and lies got their grips into her, for right or wrong, the stories persevered.

Sitting in the back of the room, waiting for any sign that class was coming to an end, she stared intently at the clock, counting down as each hand moved barely a centimeter. The room started to black out. Nothing but the clock shined. Gleaming down on her and the desk. Click.click. The hands are almost at the time. She dreaded the number three like black licorice is disgusting to children. Once that bell rings, her life is about to fall down a hill. The count starts down from 3,2,1…

Waiting until her husband, Jerry left for work before she showered, dancing around the room wearing only her underwear, Marlene whispered. “I am a lucky woman, a great husband that provides exceptional well for me and the out two children, Ashley and Mark. What more could I ask for?”After spending ten minutes choosing the perfect pants, shoes and top for the day, it was time to finish her makeup, before putting on her jewelry. Looking in the tray sitting on the dresser for her favorite earrings, but they were not there. Knowing where she always put her jewel each night when she took them each night. Shocked, they were not on the dresser where she left them, she said, “Oh, shit, Jerry will kill me if I lost those damned earrings again. I know I laid them on the dresser.” Looking around on the floor and under the bed, she was unable to find them.

"Why did he collar you, then?" asked Lyron. Smoke curled from the spell he'd cast to warm himself, framing his long, serious face. The precision of Lyron's magic reflected a complete mastery of the blue energies in the boy's body. A child

On a dark and stormy night, Kirito waited outside the game store to get the new invention that was sure to change the world the nervegear. He wanted to get the nervegear for the new MMO that only 10,000 copies were released to the public call sword art online. Kirito then waited in line for 6 hours until he got in the store. Just before he got to the register a man who had a hoodie on bulldozed into Kirito knocking them both down. Then as Kirito got up he saw a glimpse of the guy’s face. Then he thought to himself isn’t that the weird kid from school. After that, he asked the cashier for a copy of sword art online when suddenly the store started to get robbed. There were three what seemed to be men with baby masks on. They told everyone in

“Hello sweetie we can talk tomorrow, right now we have to leave, your room is on the top floor first room to the right.” Her grandmother said in a rush. “We love you.” Her grandfather said frantically as if he was in a hurry to leave. The car drove off as specks of dirt flew in the air. The opened the car door and skipped inside the house.

Jimmy is out with friends at the movies theater. The movie ends at 10 o’clock and his curfew is 10:30 pm. His friends want to go get food after the movies so they did. While on the way there a car accident happened that slowed down traffic for a little bit. They finally got to the restaurant to eat at 10:45. They went in, sat down, talked, ate some food and then left. When Jimmy was pulling into his driveway he looks at the clock and sees that it is 12:30 am. He knew he was late; his parent is going to kill him for being this late. When walking into the door he closes it back quietly and starts to walk up the stairs but then the kitchen lights turn on. Jimmy looks over and sees his mom and dad sitting at the table waiting for him. Knowing that he is about to get yelled at he forms a story in his head. As soon as his father asks why he was so late Jimmy starts to tell the story. “It was so crazy. When I was on my way back there was a horrible accident. It happened right in front of me. Both cars were totaled there was nothing left of them really. No one was badly injured but we had to wait for them to get out of the car to start the flow of traffic. I was sitting there for almost an hour. I was so traumatized by seeing the accident that on the way back I drove the car so slow and carefully as I could.” During the entire time of Jimmy telling the story, he makes sure to have a scared face on and to sound very convincing. When he finishes his parents have a very sincere

Karen wakes up. She immediately knows something is wrong. She sits up and stares at her clock on her desk. It was black. Now she panics. Karen goes to her right side to find her phone. She discovers that it have a dead battery She hates it when the battery is below 50%. She quickly finds the charger and plugs it in. When she does that, she opens her desk drawer and picked up one of her many watches. She looked at on pocket watch. It says 7:10 am.