We all look the same in the dark: shapeless, tall, scary.

That’s what allowed to be herself, no one was looking for the dead princess. That’s why the maids were scared of that wing. They thought it was a ghost, someone weird shape in the dark that they could attach their fears to.

I wish that was it, they were just scared of the dark. That there wasn’t a remnant of the past hiding in the south ...

Life is like a sharp stick, no matter how hard you try it will one day be dull. You can go on your adventures, you can go have the time of your life, but one day you’ll be a sad sack of bones, sitting on your porch, watching kids play.

And it’ll make you angry, it will make you distaste everything in the world because you can’t do that anymore. You can’t run, you can’t skip, hell you can’t even b...

Octavia needed to think and she needed to think fast. She couldn’t just go out a buy the bleach, people could see her. She couldn’t be seen on camera, she was missing god damnit. No doubt the corpse laying next to her shoe couldn’t just disappear.

Jesus, she was stuck. Of course her mom wouldn’t have given her any cleaning supplies for this kill; no, just the knives, rope and gloves. Glove that h...

Sabina didn’t know how long the lake was, the realm never got this cold, not for a long time. Her feet were numb, the soles of her shoes wear teetering over the line of unusable. She clung to her small frame for just a hint of warmth.

Soon, Sabina thought, soon, she would be able to go home. She could explain to her mother where she had been, help her father with repairs, listen to her sister bl...

I won’t lie to you, what I do is considered a scam. But it isn’t like those scams for money or for social security. No, those aren’t valuable, not from my standpoint. Those things can be returned, earned again. What I scam people is something on a larger scale.

Think of a time you ever waited in a long queue, maybe at the dmv or waiting for a roller coaster. That feeling when you walk out feelin...

It was just another paper. Just another essay on some important medical device that saves a bunch of lives on a daily basis.

Scrolling to the todo app on her phone, Claire realized just how much she had to get done.

English paper on Hamlet due on Thursday, AP Chem lab analysis due on Wednesday, Spanish 4 presentation in two weeks. And that was only the first few bullet points.

From taking as...

Miriam sulked around the cemetery. Her friends, ever the rebels, were running around the cemetery, making a mess of the tombstones, laughing about the dead.

“Look at her last words,” Jenna laughed, her dyed hair flung back as she giggled, “‘if you jump, I’ll jump.’ And then here’s her husband’s ’Emily, wait for me.’” She read farther on the grave, “They both died by jumping in jellyfish infested...