Backseat

The relief flooded his being as the infant’s first cry rang out, mixing with the exhausted yet ecstatic sobbing of the child’s mother.

“It shouldn’t have happened here”, he thought, “in the back seat of my car, either now or 9 months ago.”

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 8.7/10 (10 votes cast)

Shock

Kelly was my girlfriend at the time and she tried to shock me one day by showing me that she had shaved her head. I just laughed because I knew I had a far better shock waiting for her in my backyard where I kept the dead bodies of all the people I had murdered.

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 6.3/10 (57 votes cast)

Isabella’s Basil

He’d been a quiet sort during their marriage, and he was still a quiet sort now she supposed, as she plucked the leaves and popped them on top of the tomato and mozzarella. In a way, they were closer than they’d ever been – and lets face it, he was delicious – her husband, her Basil.

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 7.7/10 (21 votes cast)

Somwhere in April

Four months ago, I remembered he just rang on my mobile and said that I have to forget her and forgive him for was being trying by force me to do so, then sudden warm tear drop came from somewhere in my eyes and went down through my cheeks, felt my heart almost stop there, and kind of butterfly effects in side my stomach. Deeply I went blank, which felt to me that whole world was deteriorating on top of my head and still don’t know why he did that to me but he seems to be very happy and moving on nowadays.

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 5.3/10 (14 votes cast)

Long Day Ahead

The autumn morning was crisp, as fresh as the river water Jim could see from his porch as he sipped his coffee and watched the sun rise. He sighed then, upset by the contrast between the beauty of the world and the ugliness of what he had to do in it that day.

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 9.2/10 (13 votes cast)

The Fire Rises

Batman was broken, physically and mentally broken. Gotham City, his city was broken too under the reign of terror of a madman named Bane. Part of his conscious demanded that he get out there, get healthy and take the city back; another part of him just wanted to give up and escape, right now he wasn’t sure which way he would go.

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 2.7/10 (17 votes cast)

OCD Torture

When he left the office, his desk was clean, free of clutter, almost pristine. Three days later his coworkers had managed to pile it high with files, random junk and their own personal belongings.

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 6.2/10 (13 votes cast)

The Rescue

The red headed woman working at the animal shelter hated all the stupid humans who left without an animal; how dare they not adopt one of the cuties. She noted their addresses and later that night murdered them in their sleep.

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 4.3/10 (20 votes cast)

The Newspaper Man

All of his customers thought he was a perfectly normal guy selling daily newspapers and magazines at the underground subway shop. Little did they know he laced every page with poison and was slowly killing them all.

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 7.3/10 (21 votes cast)

“Oh, I’m afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive…”

Luke Skywalker heard Emperor Palpatine promise to murder his friends and felt the dark side boiling inside of him. Giving in to the darkness he activated his lightsaber, chopped the Emperor’ s and Darth Vader’s heads off and hit the Death Star’ self destruct button; sending them all to hell.

VN:F [1.9.22_1171]
Rating: 5.4/10 (20 votes cast)