Felix had rehearsed his speech for days, but when someone in the audience snickered, he began an impassioned diatribe on the lack of civility in today's society that left the crowd stunned and embarrassed.

Standing on the hill they watched the river overflow its banks and begin the inevitable destruction of all they had worked towards for the second time in five years.

Like a siren's song the scratching of the squirrel's feet drove the dog into a frenzied fury.

In memoriam F.C.A.

When Simone anonymously turned in her drug dealer to the police, an act of revenge for cheating her on her last bag, she didn't expect that she would become a pariah among her fellow addicts, who had quickly discovered her betrayal.

The old men stared across the room at one another unable to place where they had met, but both feeling hatred bubbling up from the depths of their memories.

The sun began to set and with its departure went their hopes of being rescued for another day.