Blue Ships Publishing

To prevent anymore in-flight hijackings, the Government has decided it best to arm all the passengers with pistols. Does this help or harm? In theory it was a brilliant idea. Arm the passengers on a plane with Derringers. No one can take it hostage. However, in practice, theories always have…

You love the city at night. The lights. The people. The atmosphere. It makes you feel alive and reminds you why you stay alive. And on really tough days, nothing makes you feel stronger and more powerful than jumping from the highest point in the city and seeing the faces…

Write an opening using: I’m in a half-full bottle of water. It’s times like these when I feel like I’m in a half-full bottle of water. My boss is blathering on about something that I’m pretty sure has nothing to do with me or my department and I’m just sitting…

“I just need nine more,” I said to myself as much as to the people gathered around me. Nerds unite!!! I thought amidst all the chatter. Nine more dots. You wouldn’t think that would be so many, but after 20 straight rounds of Pac-Man, nine just seemed like eternity. I…

“In pitch dark/ I go walking through your landscape…” Ember looked at the radio as Thom Yorke crooned his way through the first lines of “There There.” “Huh. Interesting,” she said to herself. “What’s interesting,” Asher said as he kept his eyes on the road. “Oh, nothing. It’s just this…