Cast away she floated. Upon new soil she cried bitter tears into a moat around her heart. He swam it.

I'm a clean, mean writing machine ready to leave my timidness and spread my words of wisdom to all humanity.

"But it's all you have."

"If it was a crumb I would halve it for you. Hunger is only temporary..."

The monitor line went flat as the nurses became frantic. Outside the room a woman watched, and smiled to herself.

I turned and our eyes danced. After twenty years, she remembered? She took my hand and said, "Who are you?"

Laugh, because you can. Live to learn. Make no excuses. Give no quarter. They will find out who you are.

As Mark rode back in the boat, he knew that he would never be the same again. He had changed.

She flits and floats, trapped in the golden light she creates. Fairy dust she leaves everywhere she goes, like stardust.

I ran my finger through the ash, smearing it across the pavement. I couldn't believe it only took one match.