After an Armageddon event three people find themselves alone in a bunker, but there is only enough food and water for two — All I could do was stare at the heart-shaped locket in my hand. I had got it for my father to give to my mother. Had been due to give it to him tomorrow. I no longer could. He was gone. My mother was gone. Everyone was gone. Not everyone…

A guy gets called into work by his girlfriend and the consequences are life-changing — As I dropped to my knee, I rested my blood-soaked hand against the gravestone, I still couldn’t believe the name written on it. But it had happened and all I could think about was the day where all this began. That day in The Raging Bull. I stepped out of…

A brown paper box finds itself left alone in the carriage of a fast-moving train, and is left to wonder just what is inside it and why it has been abandoned. — I’m sat on the floor of the carriage and the train is now thundering along the tracks. My owner has either forgotten or abandoned me. I thought he had just gone to the bathroom, but it has been over an hour now and he has not returned. And now I…

A university student decides to have a chill day but instead finds himself being taken on a wild adventure through space and time — I had so much work to do for my university dissertation, and I really should start doing it, but it was such a nice day that I managed to “persuade” myself that I deserved some chill time first, just to clear my head before getting started. I lived in the…

A man is trapped in a cave with only his phone for a light and the battery is rapidly dying — The ground has finally stopped shaking. Wow, that was close. I should open my eyes. Wait, they are open. I’m opening and closing my eyes, but all I’m seeing is the same thing, absolute darkness. What the heck? A flashlight, my smartphone’s got one. I need it. I’ve dropped it…

A university student is given an assignment on the topic of nothing, and soon finds himself on a journey trying to work out just what the meaning of nothing truly is, and whether an Instagram picture holds the key to the answer — I was in the front room lying on my sofa, in terms of what I was doing, nothing. I shouldn’t be doing nothing, I should be writing my university assignment, the problem was my assignment was on nothing.

A man who wants out of his life as a drug runner comes across a goldmine and believes it will grant him his freedom, but soon finds himself trapped with only one way out — Dammit, what a bloody fool I am. I knew better than this. Forget that, just keep running, it’s happened. It had and now I had to deal with it. Easier said than done, I couldn’t stop damn well coughing, the dust in the air from the ceiling collapsing was choking…

A man has to decide whether to back his wife and have lab-grown children or not — I stared over the edge of the old stone bridge at the frozen pond below, when my wife had said that she wanted to put her eggs on ice so that we could have children later in life, this was not the way I had thought that things would go…