“You jerk!” she says, pushing him away, disgusted with him.  “I can’t believe you said that to me.  We can’t do this.  You can’t kiss me.  I can’t be your girlfriend.  It was all so perfect and now it’s ruined.  Why’d you say it?  Wasn’t my friendship enough for you?”
Brandon L. Rucker

They had nothing more to say to each other, the chasm between them wider since Josh brought Maggie home. Distraught, Carol puttered in the kitchen with anger’s dark mask mounted on her face. Josh  flipped unread book pages to fill the taut silence. Finally breaking the mood, he said quietly, “She’s only a dog.”
Jim Harrington

The night crept up imperceptibly and smothered the whisky coloured day with darkness.
Leon’s bones creaked with shame and guilt as he smashed the hammer into Milton’s face.
Later, his stomach growled with hunger and fear as he fried the corpse of the only other human left alive.
Paul D. Brazill

I don’t remember his name. It may be that I never knew it, but we sat together  the entire ride. His thoughts were of his late wife; a series of faded, yellow newspaper memories. I stared at the green lawns, dreaming of old friends, praying he wouldn’t speak or cry.
Lewis Kahler

The evil spark in his eye lit up as he pulled the switch on the wall. Electricity flowed through every wire meeting its three victims. Too bad his wife had died the year before; their three children dying would have been something he would have enjoyed seeing her watch.
Nicole E. Hirschi

Before she broke it off with him–because he didn’t believe in the saving power of the cross of Christ, she mentioned her threesome with her high school ex and the Godly man she was predestined to marry.
Catherine Zickgraf

First the engine screech, then the tire flung gravel pocking the tin shed. Clanking a menthol cough drop against his molars, Herb Bernstein looked straight over the dash, his jaw creased, foot on the pedal, mumbled “Fatty” under the growing roar of the engine, and dropped the shift into gear.
Doug Bond