A Few Short Story Ideas

This is where you'll find random story notes or beginnings. Let me know in the comments if it's a story you'd like me to start or keep writing.

1. Caleb Roundhouse stood in front of one of the high-back chairs of honor in between his sister and his mom, numb to everything that was happening around him. His brain, his heart and his soul had been hurting so badly for so long that every ounce of his sadness and fear and anger and confusion and grief had been wrung out of him. All he had left was nothingness, and the endless line of mourners passing him by, saying the same hollow words about something that they couldn't possibly understand only made him feel more empty. But that all changed when Alan Ryker walked in.

2. Harper Macintosh swerves into the employee entrance of the police department, ignoring the “Police Vehicles Only” sign, slams on her brakes and lays on the horn. She collapses onto the wheel, sobs racking her body. Her forehead resting on top of the steering wheel, she hoarsely whispers: “Help. Help me. Please. Please. Somebody please help me.” Then she can longer speak as the sobs take over, growing into guttural screams as her body spasms and practically folds in half from the weight of her despair.

3. “Thank you for letting me know.” Calla Bauer croaked into her phone as an unimaginable tsunami of grief washed over her, threatening to drown out all of her senses. “And sparing me from hearing it from a stranger…” she trailed off, dropping to her knees as her phone tumbled out of her hand and skittered across the floor. She doubled over in agony and reflexively hugged herself tightly, vaguely believing that it would somehow keep her heart from breaking.