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Justified

The last thing she remembered was falling off the cliff into the sea. Some people were after her; she could not remember who and her memory was blurred. Lying on her back on the shore, she was trying to calm her breathing. She tried moving her right hand, but it pained like hell. Using her other hand against the pebbles lying beneath her, she raised her body up to sit up. Her right hand was swollen in the elbow region. The tinted skin suggested it was quite bad and stale. She held her right h...

In Lieu Of

Things had not been smooth between Holden and Grace off lately. They were into the fifth year of their marriage and the bond between them had already fissured. He wanted to understand her mindset, but she was gone far off. It began with the miscarriage she had a couple of years back. If he thought about the time before that, all he could conjure in his mind were happy memories, they were high school sweethearts after all.

Their relationship had not been a happily ever after affair after he ha...

Hellbound

Ten people had gathered in the lawn with the house owners standing in front of them. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas were chic in their professional attire that included a formal blazer paired with black trousers for him and a long skirt with a white blouse for her. Even though they must be in their sixties, their attire and the way they carried it made them look much younger. Despite of the history of the villa, Brian had not expected only nine other competitors, but it was relieving. If he could be hon...

Ghosts on Tape

“Don’t tell me what to do! I know my job pretty well. I have been doing this since the first episode of Ghosts on Tape,” Harry shouted at Isla.

“If you knew your job well, the ratings would not have been falling,” she lashed back at him.

Harry took off his gear and began walking out of the house. He punched a wall painting before exiting the door, which startled the entire team.

“Relax Isla, he will be fine. We all are under a lot of pressure right now, it’s not his fault,” Sofia said consoli...

Frozen

Despite of the dozens of clothes wrapped tightly around their bodies, they were getting numb. “C’mon guys, we are almost there,” Sameen encouraged her team. This climb was proving to be the most difficult for Emma because she was the one behind the camera and had to document everything. One of her hands was always holding the camcorder, but Olivia had been a good support. As usual, Trish was cracking the stupidest jokes, but that was not helping right now. What began as a light snowfall glist...

Enter With Caution

It did not look even close to nice. Jenny and David were standing in front of the amusement park’s gate with their eight years old child Angela. It was a rusted iron gate that was capable of ruining your mood instead of offering amusement. What could they expect? David had to shift with his family to this new house out in the barrens for a multinational construction project. Jenny had always cooperated with her without complaining which often made her feel lucky for finding her in the first p...

Devil Walks Among Us

Everything around him was diffusing into a blur. He blinked his eyes several times and tried focusing on anything that could keep him awake. Her head was throbbing with pain and he could feel the blood gushing out of the back of his head. He was lying on a stretcher and his mother seemed panicked about his condition by the kind of things she was muttering.

“You’ll be fine love,” she said kissing his forehead. “The doctor is going to look after you. Please be with me.”

“Yes, I will be fine,” h...

Circle of Life

“Hush little baby, don’t say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It’s just the beasts under your bed
In your closet, in your head”

Hannah and Amy were screaming at the top of their lungs along with their favorite lines of the track. “Nobody is better than Metallica, especially when you are high,” they both agreed to the notion. In fact, their true love for Metallica is what had brought them together in college.

“Exit Light, Enter Night,” they sang as the speedometer rushed past 80mph o...

Bloody Mary

It seemed like an eternity happened before the door opened and Susan’s parents greeted Tyler’s parents with a friendly hug. She hated these reunions because a) Everybody pretended to be something they were not, b) The elders spent the entire night drinking and c) The other kids bullied her.

In all such previous reunions, the kids had targeted here and made fun of her. She was a shy girl with reserved temperament. Her parents were not as rich as their friends and that was the prime barrier bet...

Atheist

“Do you believe in God?” Alex asked his friend Chris, who was equally drunk.

“Of course I do! I go to church every Sunday, moron! You are drunk out of your wits. What kind of question is that?”

“Why not the Devil then? Every entity in this world has a mirror identity of its own self. Why don’t you believe in Satan if you believe in God?”

“Because when I worship God, he is there to protect me from Satan. I never said I don’t believe in Satan; I do, but he is in hell and earth is protected by t...