It’s on the tip of my tongue to say, ‘I told you so.’ Those four little words dangle in the air between us, producing tension thicker than the fog we wade through.

Ben huffs as he halts. His hiking boots stomping a bit petulantly on a large flat rock that the shallow stream caresses.

“Alright,” he relents, hands on hips, “we’re lost.”

I match his stature but decide to add a smile.

“Was that s...

Delphine has noticed her life getting repetitive lately: groan herself awake, resent the dawning of a new day, embrace the all consuming dread summoned by the responsibilities that await beyond the sanctity of sheets, repeat.

So, she knew that she shouldn’t have gotten out of bed today.

If anything, that knowledge was her only constant within the monotony.

Refusing to be an accountant for he...

“I’ve always said, if I only had one day left to live, I wouldn’t want to know about it,” I complain over the rim of my latte.

Jane squints her red rimmed eyes at me and leans forward, chest pressing further into the small table between us, her hearing apparently impeded by the frantic screams of passersby.

_‘Really should’ve made coffee at home today,’ _I think.

I try not to leave my place on...

“Careful of vampires!” Jade calls as I’m halfway out the door.

_Just one more step. C’mon. You can do it._

My body turns back into the apartment anyway. _Curses._

I can’t help it and she knows it.

“There are no such thing as vampires,” I grit out to the beaming psycho.

It was endearing at first, the random roommate I was assigned being so into the supernatural. Less so after months of made u...