Flemzo

I "What've ya got?" demanded Captain Rogers. He had just gotten the call about an accident on Virginia Avenue. Three automobiles, five victims, all deceased. It was an investigator's worst ...

My dad had a maniacal look in his eye as we weaved through traffic. I could only guess at what was running through his mind. Grandpa Erv had been diagnosed ...

Chad looked around nervously. Still groggy from the sedative, he blinked and looked around to get his bearings. He didn't recognize where he was, nothing looked familiar to him. There ...

My best friend died last night. He was stabbed five times in the chest. They say he bled out in the middle of the street, writhing in pain, his screams ...

So, a little background: we had to write a story about a kingdom named Worthingtonia, which is really my hometown with "-ia" added to the end of it to make ...

So I've had this idea for a book. My whole point I want to make is that actions have consequences, and sometimes one bad choice can spiral a life out ...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I made the mistake of telling people I'm growing out my moustache. The backlash led to this. I should have listened to them. Really, I should have. But ...

NOTE: I wrote this story a few months ago in response to learning about a friend who was bulimic. She's since started eating and keeping it down, in part because ...

[NOTE: I had the opportunity to listen to Dr. Maya Angelou be the keynote speaker at Augustana College on May 11. In her speech, she mentioned that people should be ...

[NOTE: The italicised paragraph is what appears at the end of Chapter 34 in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The following is how I was totally expecting the ending ...

It was time. The time I had to be strong in front of my best friend, even though I knew he was about to die. It started three days prior. ...

It's just you and I in my car. We had a great time country swing dancing, even if I almost dropped you on your head a couple of times. The ...

Tim woke up in complete darkness, his knees tucked under his chin, laying on his side. Moments earlier, it seemed, he had just fallen asleep on the black leather couch ...

I gave myself a word limit of 500 words. Normally when people do this, they struggle to cut down to 500 words. I, however, took a week trying to get ...

[NOTE: this story was actually inspired by my Psychology textbook. There was an editor's note in the "Split-Brain Patient" section that went something along the lines of, "When reading these ...

I usually don't do holiday stuff, but this ran through my mind more than once, so here it goes. ---------------------------------------- "Five minutes to midnight!" The people were milling around in ...

[NOTE: just an experiment. i played some dark classical music (who knew Chopin could set a dark mood?), and let my mind run wild. also, any crits i receive here, ...

NOTE: This is the fifth entry in what I hope to be a fairly interesting memoir. It's posted in non-fiction, even though most of the story is made up, because ...

"By signing this waiver, you agree not to sue us, and if you do sue us, you understand that you will not win." So ended the legal video that I ...

NOTE: this flash fiction was brought to you by having two sounds run simultaneously: This and this. Enjoy, and try it for was a rainy night, the sort of night ...

3/21/2011 -- This story just got accepted to the Wartburg College literary magainze, The Castle!The lights flickered as Katherine slowly regained consciousness. She struggled to move for a moment, and

A short story about confronting your past. Based on a true story. Names changed due to HIPPA regulations.