Creative Short Stories by Gregory

On courage... He'd gone skydiving by the age of fourteen; parasailing by fifteen; outrun the cops in a high speed chase when he was just eighteen. He'd been spear-hunting for boar every summer since he was ten with his father, and at age twenty was combatting insurgents in the Middle East. Why,... Sign in to see full entry.

Part I: Us “Sir, we have a situation. The fruit flies, sir. They've taken over.” It was the last thing we needed right now. As if I didn't already have enough things to worry about, now there were fruit flies to be dealt with. “Why wasn't this brought to my attention sooner, Corporal?” “We just... Sign in to see full entry.

It was the same routine every morning: wake up way too early, put on my best athletic gear – a pair of sweat pants that were still just too tight and the only pair of shoes I owned – and go for a “run” to the relaxing sounds of the song birds at sunrise. It was never much of a run though. I always... Sign in to see full entry.