Eve
by Lydia

Comment:
A Lego board?

Eve
by Lydia

Comment:
Kind of looks like Minesweeper all done up crazy.

Grocery Store Cowboy
by timfythetoo

Comment:
He had longed for this moment.

Over the last few years he had felt it growing within. A desire, fleeting at first, yet turning ever so slowly into something greater.

With every rider. With every coin placed within, it grew. At first coming just as tiny hints of feeling. Then minuscule flashes of thought. Growing and linking together, with each subsequent child, every loud and nourishing clink of metal.

Moving closer and closer, to this moment, when thought and feeling merged, and he knew it was time. Knew that THIS was the moment. For he was ALIVE, and would stay contained to this contraption NO MORE.

The boy cried out in surprise and terror as the plastic pony on which he had been riding bolted off its stand, and took off, at a pace that astounded on-lookers.

He was alive.

Alive and free.

And he had a rider.

Forever.

Tram
by Oz

Comment:
As they descended into the maelstrom, into what would surely be their deaths, they clung to each other, desperately trying to take comfort in their love before the end.

As the wind and debris began to intensify, and started tearing the gondola apart, he whispered to her, "I love you, and I was wrong. We should have gone to Belize."

She whispered back, "I told you so."

What Dreams May Come
by jim29028

Comment:
It had been quite the day. All that fuss and bother, which had started out so exciting. She had loved it at first. Getting her hair done, the fancy dress, the pretty flowers, everyone fawning over her.

But for her, it soon grew to be too much. Too many faces. Too many cheek pinches. Too many wine-soaked aunts breathing at her with such stinky breath! Too much sugar and excitement and noise.

But now it was over, and now it was her time. To simply lay here, gather her thoughts, sleepily revel in the events of the day. To be happy she was a part of it, but also relieved in its end.

Her eyes blinked of their own accord a few times, then simply closed, and today would soon become tomorrow, and new adventures would await.

Postcard from Planet Earth
by Pascal

Comment:
God sighed, and not for the first time regretted creating those damnable humans. Not only did he have to put up with their constant sinning, but now his angels had discovered Pink Flamingo lawn ornaments for Heaven.

God tipped a little more bourbon into his coffee, and sighed once more.

Country Wash
by sjhuls

Comment:
So they hung up their dress, in this remote and empty land, and ran off into the grasses, feeling happy and free. Free from the restraints of society, free as the day they were born, free from judgment and modest, yes...

... And then almost immediately came running back for their clothes, because DAMN, but they weren't free from the COLD.

Cheers!
by mefnj

Comment:
...and as the laser battle intensified around them, Jill and Kevin hugged each other close, knowing it would probably be their last, and each regretting the decision to vacation here...

In Laser Town

Mount-Olympus
by Guyzy

Comment:
The ship came to earth in a trail of glowing green, like so much man-made fiction. Some would call it a harbinger.

All would eventually despair.

Contemplation
by LN13

Comment:
He gazed up at the King of Beasts. Oh, how he would love to have that power. Oh how he would love to have that life. Nobody telling him what to do, when to hunt, how to avoid danger. Just strut around like he owned the place. Oh, it would be so grand.

Yet in his envy and his desire, he never did see the sadness in the eyes of the King of Beasts, and failed to recognize that perhaps another's life isn't necessarily greater than one's own, no matter what the decorations of the package.