Cast away she floated. Upon new soil she cried bitter tears into a moat around her heart. He swam it.

"But it's all you have."

"If it was a crumb I would halve it for you. Hunger is only temporary..."

I'm a clean, mean writing machine ready to leave my timidness and spread my words of wisdom to all humanity.

The monitor line went flat as the nurses became frantic. Outside the room a woman watched, and smiled to herself.

Laugh, because you can. Live to learn. Make no excuses. Give no quarter. They will find out who you are.

As Mark rode back in the boat, he knew that he would never be the same again. He had changed.

She flits and floats, trapped in the golden light she creates. Fairy dust she leaves everywhere she goes, like stardust.

I ponder my existence

Do I exist at all?

Do you?

How do we know any of this is true?

She stood there frozen; door-knob in hand. The other side her assaulter sat. She exhaled vengeance. Her hand, decisively turned.