By Tim Rawson I awoke.   As that pleasant dream faded, I remembered I had to teach today, on Blackboard. 

By Dave Onofrychuk You merge into traffic and cut off the driver behind you, who traces his finger across his throat, baring his teeth at you.  He is the neighborhood weirdo; you watched him dig a deep hole in his yard last week. 

By Nora Miller I left the house with the kids and the babysitter.  An hour later I got a call from the babysitter that she was running late.

By Megan Farrow As a critical care nurse, I was accustomed to a patient’s health status suddenly changing for no apparent reason.  So, I knew no one else would notice either as I pocketed the lethal drug and continued my rounds.

By Rosanne Pagano And why would the gate be banging in the wind, the front door opened wide, the bedroom cold as a stray cat’s soul, and every dish, every cup, every saucer smashed to bits?  …oh why bother telling him now, a man too timid to cross his own threshold when she had needed him most.  

By Natasha Webster I never knew why they taught us to “Never talk to strangers”. That is, until I stopped talking to myself.