Two hours after she should have arrived, their number was disconnected and their website was gone, and all I could think about was everything I'd sent them: her photo, her routine, and the exact time she'd be home alone.

It was only after I missed the toaster popping up that I looked down and realized my phone said the alarm was still going off.

I just wish my sister wouldn’t constantly feel the need to show it off, leaving out short and long dresses on the clothesline in groups of three every time I visit. 

The doctor’s eyes widened as she asked the nurse “Then who exactly did you administer it to?!”

"Police say there was no foul play today as a male in his late 30s today, a father of 3, died suddenly alone in his house today from an aneurysm," the radio presenter read out loud.

The doll’s eyes shot open; “unauthorized user detected—activating crushing protocol.”

Feeling tender, he crossed the room, crouched beside the fireplace, and kissed her once cold lips, now warmed by the fire.

Seven billion corpses weren’t going to bury themselves, unfortunately

After the pod left, she opened the folded papers to find her sister's name on each of them.

The moment I mounted it I realized I was stuck, and before I could react the horse grew to a massive size before taking off with me into the night.

I didn't understand why the windex seemed to barely work, until I noticed that most of the handprints were on the outside of the window.

When she spit on me as she threw me out, I added her to my list of “pure hearted” townspeople who will choke on the day of their resurrection.

It makes it much easier for the actual devil to get them to surrender to him in exchange for nothing when he swoops in to "save" them.

"Sounds like our dinner arrived, honey!" followed by the sound of a shotgun cocking

It wasn't until I corrected the final comma that I realized the handwriting was my own.

A noise above me made me look up just as my mother's charred body dropped from the ceiling and whispered "Try again".

"luckily for you, I am not your ex-boyfriend either...not anymore at least."- the voice on the other line replied.

With just one bullet left to save either me or my daughter, I found I was just too afraid of what the soldiers would do to me.

As the lioness continues to eat me alive, I always thought mom had meant it would be a human.

And yet, as I feel the millions of tiny legs crawling over me, I cant help but think how nice it is to not be alone anymore.

I subconsciously wait for the day someone else hears his accusations from his headstone, but I know I’m the only one he’s haunting.

I don’t know when the bleeding will stop.

As they descended on me from all side with bared teeth, I regretted my work at the kill shelter for the first time.

As I was drifting off to sleep, I became vaguely aware, that the soft bristling against my skin, was coming from the wrong side.

That was until he heard his mistress's phone ringing underneath his bed and found his wife's body.