Robert could feel his heart beating faster as his clammy hands death-gripped the podium that stood just beyond the large screen filled with legal graphs, facts, and flowcharts.  His reason for pause wasn’t because he was nervous speaking in front of people, it was something else.  

While staring over…

The boy made up his mind by the first strike of lightning as he swam hard towards the raft.
It was an eight-foot square platform made from treated pine, green outdoor carpet, and held immersed in the water about seventy-feet offshore, by two aluminum pontoons.  Upon its top was a…

She could barely lift the pen as she struggled for breath.  It was a contract.  One that was worth a thousand times more than anything she had ever signed in the past.  This one, allowed hospice to perform one final act which, would solidify her love for those she…

I lie in bed, sleeping, yet awake.  I can see my dog staring at me from the mattress on the floor next to the TV stand.  She looks confused, wondering if something about me has changed.  As I look around the room, I notice it is the room itself,…

The soldier couldn’t believe his eyes as he watched the farmer sitting smack-dab in the middle of combat.  And of all things, smiling.  He sat cross-legged and calm, as fire engulfed his home, his farm, and everything he had spent his entire life building.

Just moments ago the battle…