Morgan Douglas

“The Last Rain Rider Adventure” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #112

The Carod family were amongst several families that belonged to the biker club Rain Riders. Her family had been a part of this tradition for three generations while other families had been participating for even longer. They would wait for a rainy evening to take a ride together as an event. Rain was pretty sparse in Fanson so it was a treasured occasion. The year that Frankie Carod was finally old enough to take to the road with her new motorcycle there were only five instances of rain making each outing all the more noteworthy.  On N...

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“The Inner Secret of Jahu” by Morgan Douglas

What constituted the inner core of Jahu was a mystery to the people who lived on the surface of the planet. There was only one large continent of inhabitable land amongst a vast ocean of dark violet water. Jahu is one of thirty planets making up the Mopah solar system. It was known to the scientists on Jahu what the inner cores of the neighboring planets were because they had sent probes to those other uninhabited worlds. Yet up until this point in time, they did not know how to break through the hard crust of their own world.  Fahats ...

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“Why can't you hear me?” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #101

How do we truly know that we are dead? There are myths and stories surrounding what happens post-mortem. Whether it be that be one just seizes to exist. Or a religious belief that there is in fact an afterlife that you are sent to when all is said and done with your life. Where we may think that we will be scrutinized for our actions which will, in turn, determine the fate of our eternal souls. Ghosts can be thought of as a dead person caught in non-corporeal form. Perhaps they are trapped and cannot move on or that really is what we all bec...

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“The Release of a Sunset” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #99

It had been too long since Tracy had gone outside to truly take in the beauty of the sunset. So, after coaxing herself outside she looked at it as it was setting in the west. In fact, it had been years. During those years spent inside day in and day out, she kept to herself, locked away from all that she was afraid of. Her agoraphobia had set in right after her teenage son was killed while they were walking to the coast. The investigation into his death had gone nowhere and neither did she. The attempts her friends made to help her cope and ...

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“A Forever Closed Door” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #98

Getting kicked out of the house is an unfortunate reality for many young queer people after coming out to their families. Whether it is the fact that their family is religious and does not tolerate homosexuality, or just plain ignorance these are usually the cause. It is an unfair and unjust situation in which parents do not support their child and instead push them away.  Neil had known that he was gay for what seemed like a long time. Never having a girlfriend all through school despite his mother’s persistence in telling him he neede...

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“Can the Moon Heal Her?” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #97

She had been through a lot with her newfound illness. A problem that infused her with extreme anxiety. What if it were to happen again? Would she be able to recover or would she be able to handle it? During this time she felt the weight of the world crashing down on her with all its horrible might. Why me? Was a common question she asked herself and the universe, hadn’t she been through enough trauma already.  At about three in the morning unable to sleep she got out of her purple sheeted bed and walked slowly up to the large window. M...

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“The Yes Man ” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #95

There were many times when Herold’s mother told him that he needs to make decisions instead of staying complacent. Hannah tried to teach her son to be more like her than his father. Herold’s father had been a man that never took anything seriously and didn’t think he needed anything to do with his son’s life. Now it wasn’t that Herold was lazy, it was just that he struggled with making clear-cut decisions. His ability to weigh the pros and cons of situations often left him stammering for an answer. Leading to many missed opportunities. ...

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“Compromise for Love” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #94

Growing up children have been exposed to the expectations of being a parent one day. Girls tend to be given dolls to play with and are shown how to play “house.” This leads us to believe that our lives will not be fulfilled if we do not have our own family someday. If you decide that this is not the path for you, then you tend to be subjected to a slew of questions as to why you don’t want to have kids or why are you waiting so long?  These expectations of house and family future endeavors were thrust upon Anita at a young age. Also at...

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“No Pets, no Joy” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #85

“That’s the thing about this city, no pets allowed under any circumstances,” explained Janice, the very peppy realtor.  “Are you serious? I have never heard of a town that didn’t allow pets in,” replied Harris as he looked over at his wife.  “I am unfortunately telling you the truth.” “Well, I wish you would have told us that before we bought the house,” mentioned Willa. “I am sorry, I didn’t think it was pertinent information. Most people who move into Garrison are aware of this stipulation.” Janice then handed the keys off t...

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“Maybe Tractors Shouldn't be Able to Drive Themselves” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #82

You’ve heard of self-driving cars and remote usage of drones but within the next ten years, a whole new kind of self-driving technology will be on the market. It’s the way of the future, replacing human transit and machinery with technology that can do this itself. An aid to humankind and it would turn out to be a great asset. However, people, just like with self-driving cars are apprehensive of self-driving tractors.  In its prototype testing phase, the results were surprisingly great. The self-driving tractors were functional and wer...

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“Concerts Can Bring People Back Together” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #81

Unfortunately, plenty of marriages end in divorce. Nathan and Alejandra didn’t think they would be one of those. They became acquainted not too long after Alejandra and her family immigrated from Mexico. She enrolled in his high school but it wasn’t until college that they really hit it off. Taking it past casual flirtation to a committed relationship. It seemed like a classic pairing, him a football player for the university and she a cheerleader and a scholar. She never let him or her extracurricular activities get in the way of her school...

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“A Shot at a Date” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #81

Romance was hard to come by for Florence, most of the time her dates didn’t get far past the first one. For three years she had decided to put her heart in a box when it came to dating. She simply thought she wasn’t ready to try again. Instead, she focused on her single life, putting her needs first. Thinking that if she explored her own self that she would figure out what she wanted in her love life when she was willing to go back on the hunt for a lover. Thinking that maybe this next time she would explore her bisexuality and try dating bo...

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“Animal Calls, an Unlikely Hobby” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #78

An important event that Kara had hoped to create and host was finally coming to fruition. She had planned out a convention for a hobby that she had explored since she was in middle school. Her classmates and friends thought she was weird and poked fun. Kara didn’t care though, she loved following her passions and thought that the ridicule was not worth worrying about. As she was setting up the decorations in the recreation hall, she thought back to her times in school when people were making fun of her, knowing that they couldn’t keep her do...

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“Working Towards a Daunting New Year's Resolution” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #75

Every year people make resolutions for the New Year that they plan to carry out but never do. Things that may just be out of their reach or things that get sidelined by other obligations. They say to themselves that next year will be the year that they finally follow through and that tends to be pushed back as time goes on. Whether it be something like losing weight or saving money instead of spending it all. New Year’s resolutions are hard to accomplish.  For several years Greta had put off applying for college thinking she was not go...

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“Experience is not Always Enough” by Morgan Douglas

Submitted to Contest #74

Franklin Howard was known as a great excavator and explorer of not just the tombs of Egypt but many sites all over the world. Many artifacts that he has unearthed from these sites have been displayed in museums. Being that he has had so much experience in these matters he felt that he was capable of going to a remote location deep in the mountains of China. A place that was known by local legend to hold a small palace that once housed an emperor by the name of Li Jing. The closest village to this mainly unexplored building is nearly thirty-f...

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