I come home for the first time in a year, and what do I get? A house full of sand. A world that is all sand. I can’t find any survivors. I’m all alone. So, this is the end of the world? Disappointing. No robots, no zombies, not even a plague, as far as I know. But what caused this? Extremely high tide? I think not. Maybe some kind of incantation? Perhaps that could be true. But what of my beautifu...

“What do you have to say about this?” It was my crush’s mom. She was holding a picture of me as a six year old, wearing a hot pink bikini that looked itchy. I was bending over to pick something up off the ground. My little round belly poked out of the swimsuit. It didn’t match my body shape now, I had lost weight and replaced it with muscle (because of the basketball team forcing me to work out ve...

I opened the box under my bed. “I know I told myself I’d stop, but I know that wasn’t true.” I told myself as I put on my crimson-and-black gothic dress that I count as a hero costume. Someone my age shouldn’t do this, or have to for that matter. But this is what has come upon us. This is what the new generation has to do to save this world before the previous generation destroys it any more than ...

All I had wanted moving to this wretched little town in Texas, was (human) friends, popularity, and to graduate middle school with flying colors. Of course, I got one of those things. Just like every day, I went to go into the woods to get away from mom’s old and smelly cottage. Most of the time I know exactly where I’m going, but today I was very angry over a particular thing. Or was it a person?...

The dark room, the dark walls, and the often moaning in the back of the room, seemed as if it were nothing compared to the absolute betrayal burning a whole in my heart. Why of course, it must have been shriveled if not turned to stone by now, for my own sister had turned her back on me and was about to kill me, in front of my own children, for goodness sakes! “You don’t have to do this, Katherine...