Emily Dickinson: 158 books

Eric looked at his watch, it was 4:15 and he was supposed to meet Sandy at the beach in a half hour. His work loomed before him like the Great Wall of China. He had to make a decision as what to do since his boss had not been happy with his work performance as of late. His mind searched for an answer...

Finishing my shift, I hastily waved goodbye to my boss as I left work. I was really excited for tonight. I had a date with my best friend Rebecca and it had felt like ages since we hung out. Rebecca was always begging me to come over, her husband was incarcerated and she was terribly lonely. I was...

It was another hot, miserable August day in Iowa, and Alison Taylor was goddamned tired of trudging along Interstate 80, feeling the softening blacktop beneath her soles, her backpack getting heavier every mile. But she wasn’t about to turn back. She’d hated every moment of the past five years,...

“Can you stay a little late tonight Jessica?” my boss asked me as I was gathering up my purse and coat. I glanced over my shoulder, keenly aware that there was no one else in the break-room with Mr. Turner and I nodded quickly, hoping I didn’t seem too enthusiastic. I loved Mr. Turner. Not really...

Saul opened the door to the apartment he shared with his room mate, Brian. It was a two bedroom off campus apartment that they had been sharing since the start of freshman year at the community college they attended together. They were Sophomores now. Both working towards a degree in medicine. Saul...

It was a beautiful summer. I was planning my vacation and together with my best friend we were search beautiful places where we can rest, have fun and make some new, crazy memories. I was in my best friend house all day. She is living with her parents, but they were on some business trip, so she was...

All is fair in love, passion and vengeance they say, but when it comes to real thing – it’s about the priority. Priority makes people think, unless you are soaked away by vexation and wrath so much that the part inside of you cannot rationalize your consciousness. When it comes to love, the sap...

I could barely open my crusted eyes. My head felt crappy and my throat scratched like miniature tumble weeds were trying to escape. It took me a moment to realize I was my living room….but I was laying on something rather lumpy...and warm. God it was moving too! Staring into sudden bright light...

The colony's new Hawking-class pulse turrets were a sight to behold, if one was into that sort of thing. John “Echo” Edwin was, most certainly, into that sort of thing; there was even a little bit of a romantic in the Redrum Laires colony's chief maintenance engineer. He liked to wake up early...

“Bethany and Luke will be here soon...” Maggie moaned as Bryan kissed his way up her neck, his teeth nipping playfully at her earlobe as he nuzzled her. Maggie had worked tirelessly throughout the day preparing the food and arranging the dining room table in the hopes that she would successfully...

“Thank God it was Friday!”, I said to Kelly, as the week had been long enough with the exams beginning next week and all the studying that I had been doing I really just needed a break, a moment to laugh and take a breather, something to release some of this pressure as my body felt tense and...

After sixteen years of waiting, the day for which he’d been chosen was almost here. Two days after his birth, Prince Telitzin, one of a score of royal children fathered by the king upon the bodies of negligible concubines, had been taken from the Royal nurseries and sent here, to the temple of the...

Joseph seemed like an average guy, but he held many secrets from the public eye. Some secrets not as dangerous as others. Nevertheless, Joseph was able to manage keeping what he wanted hidden and what was deemed ok, he let out into the light. Joseph was a Puerto Rican guy. Joseph was handsome, sweet...

In a land that eclipses reality, my heart found peace. I have finally been laid to rest, no longer plagued by the havoc that pursued my soul. I have finally found what so many men yearn for; a place to rest my head. A home to embrace. A fire to warm me, when the nights are at their coldest....