“I kept staring at the door as if it held the secret to the universe.” — A.B. Shepherd Door Copy Share Image
“Maybe when I’d wrecked I had hit my head. Could that be it? Did I have a brain injury? Was I hallucinating?… — a.b. shepherd Brain injury Copy Share Image
“Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.” — A.B. Shepherd Hesitation Copy Share Image
“My skin also blue tinted from the cold, and completely spent, I let go allowing the current to do what it longed… — A.B. Shepherd River Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.” — A.B. Shepherd Confusion Copy Share Image
“I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and… — A.B. Shepherd Despair Copy Share Image
“...I’m tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I’m tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped… — A.B. Shepherd Death of a loved one Copy Share Image
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn,… — A.B. Shepherd Time Copy Share Image
“The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands… — a.b. shepherd Death Copy Share Image
“Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It… — A.B. Shepherd Communication Copy Share Image
“We were like any other couple at the end of the world.” — A.B. Shepherd End of the world Copy Share Image
“I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.” — A.B. Shepherd Blurred Copy Share Image
“What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?” — A.B. Shepherd Life and death Copy Share Image
“Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.” — A.B. Shepherd Life and living Copy Share Image
“I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.” — A.B. Shepherd Anxiety Copy Share Image
“He had a smile so warm it could melt a girl’s heart, and her knickers, all in one beautiful flash of teeth.” — A.B. Shepherd Smile Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.” — A.B. Shepherd Anticipation Copy Share Image
“Why was it always easier to say the things in the dark, you couldn’t say in the light?” — A.B. Shepherd Dark Copy Share Image
“I wanted to soothe and comfort her, the way she had comforted her daughters.” — A.B. Shepherd Children Copy Share Image
“...The best guess we have, is we are on some kind of space craft. As for why, we don’t know anything other… — a.b. shepherd Sarcasm Copy Share Image
“In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode… — A.B. Shepherd Hope Copy Share Image
“Our town was christened Buyan, after the legend of a Slavic island that appeared, and disappeared, at will. That would later seem… — A.B. Shepherd Eerie Copy Share Image
“Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never… — A.B. Shepherd Confusion Copy Share Image
“On this one long, blessed night we refused to worry, allowing only hopes and dreams for the future of the human race,… — A.B. Shepherd Birth Copy Share Image
“She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my… — A.B. Shepherd Longing Copy Share Image
“A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s future. So we could… — A.B. Shepherd Cynical Copy Share Image
“Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire… — A.B. Shepherd Childbirth Copy Share Image
“He took his time looking around for anything interesting to salvage, but found only broken bits of what once was.” — A.B. Shepherd Exploration Copy Share Image
