Confidence

I remember thinking this is a bad idea. But it was the first night of freedom, and lots of bad ideas were given birth then. My roommates and I had met some random other freshmen in the courtyard [...]

“Doesn’t that sound like me?” My best friend Sarah looked up from her phone in between our monotonous task of packing my entire apartment into boxes. She was reading me the results from one of [...]

My brother Alex is passed out on the living room floor. His hair is a frizzy tangle sitting on the top of his head, his arms behind him like his body froze and he fell face-first into the carpet [...]

“Pff, you think you’re good at singing?” I turned to my friends and laughed. Hard. I looked back at him with a condescending grin on my face. I wanted him to lose. I wanted him to be embarrassed. [...]

I don’t even like this guy, so why am I hanging out with him again? It was a Sunday or Monday night and classes had finally started up again. I was in the passenger seat of a black Toyota next to [...]

There’s a hole in the sky. A dark void where thousands of aliens hell-bent on total destruction are portaled into this world. And there on the street, thousands of feet below, stands the small [...]

Kansas is so flat, I thought to myself as we drove on the backroad interstate through Nowheresville, Flatland. I looked over at my wife, and she was drop-jaw zoned-out. We were an hour into our [...]