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 short story about a care home worker and his battle to save one of his residences from a broken heart — I didn’t use to believe in life after death, but after what happened last week, I now do. …

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…

A brown paper box finds itself all alone in the carriage of a fast-moving train — 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 man who wants out of his life as a drug runner comes across a goldmine — 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 university student decides to have a chill day but instead finds himself being taken on a wild adventure to a place he never expected to go — ever — 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 teenager unwittingly feeds the family dog a slice of chocolate cake and has to deal with the repercussions — I couldn’t take my eyes off the chocolate cake, or rather the one slice of it that remained. It had been my little brother’s birthday cake, how was I supposed to know a slice of it would be poisonous for dogs? Nobody had told me that, it’s not fair that…

With stopping not an option a man battles to complete his goal — My heart was thumping, adrenaline the only thing keeping me going — no surprise, I hadn’t slept for days. But I had to keep going, even if I wanted to I couldn’t stop. It was against my nature to do so, some people say that to achieve their goal they…

A man is trapped in a cave with only his phone for a light and the battery is 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 middle-aged man who has lost the use of his hands fights to stand up — Don’t give up, that’s all people kept saying to me, that’s all I kept saying to myself. But it was so difficult, I was lying flat on my back on the floor, and the task my physiotherapist had given me was to stand up. …

A story about the mental turmoil of an Instagram picture and the search for understanding the meaning of nothing — 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. You read that right, I’m studying philosophy you see, and have to…