Bella Fox

“"Slow Life"” by Bella Fox

        “You are so lucky that you can just live a slow, relaxed life! I would love to make money spending all day with horses and picking strawberries!”               Callie got those comments often, but they never were any less annoying. It was the kind of response she always got when people asked what she did, and she told them she ran a horse ranch and farmstead, with a stand out at the end of the driveway for people to buy ...

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“Sunshowers” by Bella Fox

Submitted to Contest #240

The rocking of the boat made it difficult to focus, as I had never been on a boat before and felt a little woozy. I heard the captain of the ship speaking in the background but couldn’t quite make out what he was saying over the sound of the wind assaulting my ears. Out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw a member of the ship crew waving his arms around slightly, as though gesturing for the wind and the waves to follow him, but when I glanced over, I didn’t see anybody on that area of the deck. That’s odd… the salty sea air must be gett...

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“Behind Stone Walls” by Bella Fox

Submitted to Contest #219

I knew if I paced much more, I was liable to wear a groove in the stone floor of my cell. Unfortunately, I was too anxious to sit down. I could only see the prisoner across from me, as the other walls of my cell were simple stone. These cells had been carved out of the earth, not constructed by human hands. The prisoner across from me had his head in his hands and seemed ready to yell at me. I knew I was likely infuriating everybody with my incessant pacing in a place where the only noises were the occasional cough, but I didn’t care. “A...

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“The Book of the Throne” by Bella Fox

Submitted to Contest #176

“What did you say we were looking for?” I grumbled.            Thorin and I were in the oldest, most worn down looking bookshop I had ever seen. Dust covered just about every square inch, and books were packed in and piled precariously everywhere. I could barely walk through the aisles without knocking a stack over.            “Well, that’s the thing,” Thorin said, catching a small pile of books as it began to topple after he bumpe...

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“Fire Under Her Ass” by Bella Fox

Submitted to Contest #175

“Alright guys, are you all ready for winter break?” I asked the kids, smiling at them. We had just finished reading a story in the library, and I wouldn’t be seeing the kids until school started back up again in January. Which was truly a shame, because I adored reading with these kids, they were all so sweet, from loud, brash Simon, who was here because his mom thought it would help him mellow out (it wasn’t working), to sweet, silent Emma, who never spoke and just sat and watched me read. She had smiled at me once and that was the most int...

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“The Dungeon” by Bella Fox

        “Father, you don’t understand!”                I felt the sting of a hand across my face, and forced myself back into the kneel I had risen from to protest against my father.                “You do not get to call me Father, you know what my title is,” he growled down at me.             ...

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“Brotherly Love” by Bella Fox

Submitted to Contest #174

I couldn’t stop pacing in the stables. Bastian was grooming Balder and shooting me nervous looks, but I couldn’t bring myself to acknowledge him, as I was still fuming over my brother putting my invitation to his wedding in with the traitors. I thought, not for the first time that morning, about how different things would be if Priamos hadn’t been killed.            My oldest brother had never understood me, much like the rest of my family, but unlike them, he made an effort to connect w...

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“Second Chance” by Bella Fox

Submitted to Contest #169

A flash of lightning awoke me from my slumber, so bright that my eyes felt seared even behind my eyelids. A crack of thunder immediately followed it, so loud it hurt my eardrums. I jolted upwards, my neck aching terribly. How I had managed to fall asleep against a gravestone was beyond me, but I did. Rubbing my neck, I turned to the gravestone I had fallen asleep against. “Sorry, grandma, I didn’t mean to fall asleep.” The words on the gravestone weren’t visible in the darkness, so I ran my hand across the top of the gravestone rather than ...

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“Summer Creek Apartments pt. 3” by Bella Fox

Maddie sprinted down the street, her cardigan flying in the breeze. She was pissed. When she found out who had led the cops to the place, she was gonna kill them. They set me up! I bet it was one of those junkies, they never know when to keep their mouths shut. Still sprinting, she darted around a corner into an alley and ran down the length of it, shooting out the other end and continuing her sprint down the sidewalk. Everyone taking their evening walks looked at her like she was crazy, but she didn’t care. She had tripped the alarm and esc...

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“Summer Creek Apartments pt. 2” by Bella Fox

“Do you mind?” Julia snapped at her ceiling. God, this is terrible, she grumbled silently. Her upstairs neighbors were having another party. It was the third one this week. It was only Tuesday. “Who has a party at 4:00 in the afternoon anyhow?” she asked herself. Furthermore, if she stood in the right room of her own apartment, she could hear a baby crying right above her, where the loud noise had woken it up, but no one could hear it crying over the pounding of the bass.            “Th...

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“Summer Creek Apartments pt. 1” by Bella Fox

“Lucas.” “Steven.” The two men briefly acknowledged each other before going into their respective apartments, across the hall from each other. As soon as they were each behind the cover of their own doors, they rolled their eyes skyward. “I’ve never met such a ridiculous man,” muttered Steven. “Always walking around like he owns the place. He thinks he’s such a gift to humanity, but I’ll bet he wouldn’t know how a fix anything in his house if it grew a mouth and gave him instructions!” Meanwhile, across the hallway, Lucas was muttering s...

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“Necromancer” by Bella Fox

         I stared at Thorin. “Wait, so if Morghan’s mom wasn’t the mysterious healer of Bastian, then who was?”            I saw Morghan edging back out of the corner of my eye; a quick glance at Thorin told me he noticed it too. I wondered briefly if she was going to help her mother, but it didn’t matter much now, her mother didn’t have the answers we were looking for anyway. I don’t know how she expected to heal her broken leg, but there was...

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“The Glass Palace” by Bella Fox

Submitted to Contest #141

I met Jensen at The Glass Palace, the worst rated restaurant in town, I had thought it would be funny to go to what had been unaffectionately nicknamed The Ass Palace by my classmates. I was a senior in high school at the time, and as soon as I walked in, I was hit by an overwhelming stench. It smelled far too similar to rotten meat for my liking, which did nothing to increase my want to stay and eat there, but that was when I spotted Jensen from across the room. She was drinking a milkshake at the booth in the far corner. She had thick, wav...

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“Poor Chemistry” by Bella Fox

God, this is the singularly most annoying, self-absorbed girl I’ve ever met, thought Brielle to herself as she smiled through gritted teeth at Olive, despite the fact that she kind of wanted to push her into the fountain if she said the phrase “laugh out loud” one more time. She didn’t say “L.O.L.”. She didn’t say “lol”. She said the full phrase “laugh out loud” … out loud. “And then she said that my purse looked cheap, like it was from Goodwill, like I would ever be caught dead shopping from Goodwill, laugh out loud!” Brielle was about to...

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“The Fox in the Woods” by Bella Fox

Submitted to Contest #86

         She watched, awaiting the fox’s return. A cardinal flitted to land on a branch near her, chirping. To anyone else, the girl tilting her head would have been musing upon the birdsong drifting through the air, but birdsong was the last thing on the girl’s mind.            “Drisk is returning now, just a few more moments,” the bird was saying.            “He better have a good reason...

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