Category 2022 SS Prompt 1: Jewel

Calm yourself. It is all going to be ok. You can do it. I told myself as I took a deep breath and looked around. There they are.  I grabbed my car keys, scooped up the go bag and raced…...

I rise up from the wooden kitchen table, pick up my coffee, wrapping both hands around the mug and step over to the window.  The landscape of bare trees stares back at me, the early pink sky just beginning to…...

Life doesn't always go to plan, but if you're lucky, you'll have someone who can help you handle it.

I don't fit in, never have. But with you it was different...

A whirlwind romance, a seemingly perfect relationship - is it all too good to be true?

The first in an anthology series of stories called Poison Pen. Read them all together for a larger narrative, or individually as each can stand on their own

Poor boy finds the Jewel

A woman finds herself trapped in the criminal underworld.

Rama finds a nugget of yellow Topaz in an old copper mine, but what does it mean for his life.