Stories by Silver Haze, by newest first

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  • Spaghetti
    I was alone with a hunger rattling my ribs. It was afternoon, they left me alone, no cars in the lot, not even my own. I stepped outside my door into the pale gray light, the dead grass whimpering beneath cigarette butts and
    by Silver Haze 300 words, on Jun 17 8:45 PM
  • Nauset Light
    The beach water is warm. In this cave, it cocoons like a bath, froth and salt clings to my skin, but the sky is dark, the sea is not calm. The clouds smother the sky, smooth like icing, no bulges of rain or lightning, just th
    by Silver Haze 100 words, on Jun 17 8:44 PM
  • In the Elementary School
    I stray down the hallways, high ceilings stained like dark rust, walls green like the hemlocks beyond the windows. There is my first grade classroom, door swinging on its hinges like the door to a saloon. As its mouth gapes I
    by Silver Haze 200 words, on Jun 17 8:43 PM
  • Burlington
    I was on my way downtown, walking in a cold that made my legs and arms feel like numb limbs, pins and needles that wouldn't cease. The cars around me were twisting on their axles, front tires and back curling the frame into S
    by Silver Haze 300 words, on Jun 17 8:40 PM
  • Blueberries
    when I was six I stole an egg from a nest and hid it beside my bed under a 60 watt bulb, but it never stirred.1
    by Silver Haze 100 words, on Jun 17 8:39 PM
  • beasts
    In the woods it was dusk and everything was damp from rain. Wide-capped mushrooms billowed up from the dirt like fog. Tiny hemlock needles
    by Silver Haze 300 words, 1 comment, on Mar 30 11:05 PM
  • Catfish
    I have a bouquet of red roses laying on one of my windowsills. They've been dead for months. I resented them when I got them and I still do, but they're pretty so I have kept them bundled up and on display ever since they rea
    by Silver Haze 500 words, 1 comment, on Mar 5 1:49 PM
  • bonfire
    It was quarter of eight and I told my boyfriend I'd be home 15 minutes ago. He always got mad when I went out without him, but Renee made t
    by Silver Haze 1000 words, on Feb 26 1:59 PM
  • fruit and chocolate
    My grandpa died when I was six. We were apparently very close, but now my most vivid memories do not include playing hide and seek or baking together, but instead I see his funeral. I can taste the refreshments afterward - ce
    by Silver Haze 200 words, on Feb 10 8:42 AM
  • Hunger is Good Discipline
    I too was in Paris with my stomach growling, maybe brushing shoulders with Hemingway's ghost, and maybe he would have been impressed, appro
    by Silver Haze 200 words, on Feb 3 12:13 PM
  • Double Helix (shorter/revised?)
    My grandmother died of cancer the day before NASA told us that they had found God.1
    by Silver Haze 300 words, on Nov 24 11:11 PM 2008
  • Fishbowl
    As always, the alarm struck me awake so fast that my stomach felt sick. I swung my legs heavily off the side of the bed and sat there for a
    by Silver Haze 200 words, on Nov 24 10:41 PM 2008
  • Like Chicken Pox
    It's just a part of growing up, like getting shots and taking off the training wheels. When it happened to me I was in the living room with
    by Silver Haze 400 words, on Nov 19 11:55 PM 2008
  • Double Helix
    i remember where i was when they told us. it was my sophomore year of high school in biology class. i sat next to my best friend and we wer
    by Silver Haze 900 words, on Nov 5 11:30 PM 2008
  • Terrifying
    for some reason the pain hits me now. the guilt. i've become the kind of person i would never let myself love. i think back several years and remember the willing start to a young love, but at the same time, a hesitance loome
    by Silver Haze 200 words, on Nov 5 5:53 PM 2008
  • Cinderella
    Ella pried the cork out of the wine bottle with her teeth and took a few gulps. When knuckles pounded against the front door she panicked a
    by Silver Haze 1300 words, 1 comment, on Nov 3 5:52 PM 2008
  • Pupcicle
    Alberto's is a high quality Italian restaurant downtown. Sam thought he'd take Andy and I out to dinner to celebrate his new job since now
    by Silver Haze 900 words, on Nov 3 5:50 PM 2008
  • Saltimbanco
    Nancy was incredibly imaginative but she was a weird, weird person and I really never got along with her that well, she was kind of mean to me. She was my singing and acting leader person for this group Carrie and me were in
    by Silver Haze 1100 words, on Nov 2 2:32 PM 2008
  • Only Six Years Later
    We stared at each other like the last drops of water in the desert, chanting yes we need each other, this must be real. How convincing it all was, thinking that “high school sweet hearts” was some sort of cosmic deliciousness
    by Silver Haze 100 words, on Nov 2 1:00 AM 2008. In
  • The Shed
    “The customer comes first,” he chanted from gritted teeth. But no more orders soon, no more gross hands slipping up and down their girlfriend's legs. No more footsie in the booths. Soon he would have sent his sister enough mo
    by Silver Haze 1100 words, on Nov 2 12:43 AM 2008
  • keep yourselfs warm and dry, kids. that's all you need.
    It's important to believe in something. Having your own beliefs is what gives your life substance. Opinions, religion, philosophies... These are all different for every person,
    by Silver Haze 1000 words, 2 comments, on Mar 24 3:45 PM 2005. In <200 lines, Other
  • Run Windows?
    The Secret Means of Microsoft
    To the average computer user, an operating system and a computer are one in the same. The machine is ordered
    by Silver Haze 1200 words, 41 comments, on Mar 1 10:52 PM 2005. In <200 lines, Other
  • Piano
    Placing my fingers on the cold, smooth keys, I try to play. I trace the black and white pattern with my eyes, noticing every gap, every grouping, every space. My thumb presses
    by Silver Haze 200 words, 1 comment, on May 28 6:04 PM 2004. In <200 lines, Other
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