Flash fiction under 500 words. If you want to know why the heck she is wading through a swamp at night? - It's because her boat broke down on the way home and no one has come to find her. Will she make it to where she lives? She's so close, but what lurks below?

Someday your time will come. A Scikick 1000 word short story.

Elanclose Series STEP INTO THE WOODS...EXPERIENCE A LIFE OF SURVIVAL, FEAR, ADVENTURE, LOVE AND BETRAYAL WITH THE TEENAGERS THAT SURVIVED THE APOCALYPSE. Mankind has almost been destroyed, except for a few saved by those with the foresight to inoculate babies against the Devastation, an apocalyptic event that was to happen twelve years later. Only the young survived, aged twelve and under they withstood the toxic air that killed everything. Now, six years on, survivors eighteen years and under have worked together, creating their own clans and villages, each group living differently from the other. Young love blossoms, families and friendships are formed, personalities grow and change, skills develop in discipline and management. Some experience jealousy and unrequited love whilst others find serenity and hope. In their utopia they enjoy freedom with faded memories of the dystopian world they were born into. But free choice is suddenly lost with the demand of another that they must go to. Through his emissary Rancor, Kisin kills to show his technological power and places fear upon them all. The clans are pulled away from the safety of their homes and made to journey to an unknown place where a sociopath awaits them. Cultures must be understood. The clans have to put aside their differences and work together if they are to save the lifestyles they have created or let them be destroyed by a clan that has powers they do not understand. Youth cannot avoid emotion and love. Fear and anger abound as our clans face danger, and put themselves in peril to save the ones they love against the evil that even The Devastation could not destroy. www.elanclose.ca Available at all online digital stores (amazon.ca, barnesandnoble.com, itunes.com/ca, chapters.inidgo.ca, books.google.ca, ebookit.com) in paperback at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I APPRECIATE ALL COMMENTS. I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT READERS LIKE MOST IN THE STORY. Krys

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.

When Earth was running out of its resources, scientists called, "Seekers", found Tanis through solar codes which revealed its coordinates. It had always been the plan to return to Earth, living on Tanis was just temporary. However, finding the solar codes guiding humanity back to Earth, isn't easy. Only certain people can reveal the codes. Why? Because it's in their DNA.

Sometimes, I hate my life. Wouldn't it be better for everyone if I just got the courage to slit my wrists, put the gun of a barrel in my mouth and pull the trigger, or fasten a noose around my neck? These were my thoughts before half of the people in my life were murdered and before I met the best person in my entire life. Now I fight monsters with a group of people who basically kidnapped me off of the street. I get to stare into the most beautiful and majestic eyes as I fall asleep. I get to kiss angelic lips... literally. This is me, Melody Pond, as I live through hardships, sex, and most importantly, living with an angel. My angel. (Supernatural fan-fic)

Flash fiction under 500 words about an elderly lady who loses everything but manages to rise above and build a fulfilling new life.