Anthony was a junior-year high school student and member of his school's varsity basketball team. It was a gloomy Tuesday afternoon as the sixteen year old began heading home from practice. The sky was cloudy, and it looked like it was about to down-pour at any moment. Though he had wanted to pick up a gatorade at a local convenience store down the road, the teen figured he'd have a better chance of beating the rain if he just headed straight home instead.
There was a large vacant lot across the road from the school building that conveniently connected to his block. Anthony and many of his friends often used it as a shortcut when commuting b
Show and Tell (Commission) by TDMGenius, literature
Literature
Show and Tell (Commission)
Noah sat quietly on his bed with his feet dangling off the edge. As he held onto the edge of the mattress with curled fingers, he stared blankly at his bobbing legs. The boy bit his lip and looked around the room, but he still couldn't think of a single thing. He blew his dark hair out of his eyes. At the same time, Aaron couldn’t believe his ears. There was no thumping, no cries, good or bad, nor off-key singing to be heard as he walked upstairs. Just silence. His brother’s door was wide open, revealing a sullen fourth-grader sitting quietly on his bed.
Laughing, Aaron said, “What’s the matter?” To which Noah s
Backteach Bay (Part 2) [Commission] by TDMGenius, literature
Literature
Backteach Bay (Part 2) [Commission]
The screaming became harder and harder to hear after the giant boy tilted his head back and swallowed the tiny man. Everyone in the valley heard Bradley gulp. The tiny creature squirmed and writhed as he got sucked down the giant’s throat. High up near Bradley’s face, up in the tallest palm tree, a cameraman with a baseball cap zoomed in and captured the gargantuan swallow on film.
Poor Bradley immediately went red in the face. This is not happening. This is not happening, he told himself. Coincidentally, he felt like he was going to be sick. The giant boy turned to the ocean, bent his knees, and vomited into the sea. Like a cann
Backteach Bay (Part 1) [Commission] by TDMGenius, literature
Literature
Backteach Bay (Part 1) [Commission]
Only when Gavin stepped off of the ferry did he begin to feel the heat of the island, but as soon as he did, it didn’t feel like work anymore. As far as he was concerned, this was a vacation on the deserted tropical island of La Portchesca, a few miles east of the Virgin Islands. Gavin Macintosh was just seventeen, and getting to work with this mysterious director on a secret project was going to shoot his career up into the sky. They would be shooting in Backteach Bay, and all Gavin could hear whenever his agent said the name was the sound of waves crashing as he layed on the sandy shore. He ran his fingers through his light-brown hair
Not-So Little Brother (Part 1) by TDMGenius, literature
Literature
Not-So Little Brother (Part 1)
Jason quickly unlocks the front door. He and his friend, Matt, run inside. They've just been let out of school, and Jason has something exciting to show Matt.
"I still can't believe you got one. They haven't even been released to the general public," Matt said. The two boys rush up the stairs and set their bags down in Jason's room.
"My dad knows a guy who works for Samsung, so he got us a beta version," Jason replied. Matt was at a loss for words. Jason's room was about a messy as you can imagine a teenage boy's room might be. There was dirty laundry completely covering the floor, and the bed sheets were twisted into a knot, half on the fl