It is muggy and warm and humid with little to no breeze and I am fed up. I sit up from the reclined garden chair, throat parched, hand shielding dry eyes from the sun’s glare as I peer down at my legs and arms. Not an inch of skin has tanned in the two hours I’ve been sat here. What’s good about a bought of weekend sun if you can’t even tan? The air is thick with the silence that accompanies a hot...

“I’m sorry but we are going to have to do it now.”

“Well,” I say, slinging my bag onto my shoulder, blinking back tears, “this is goodbye.” I reach out to feel his fur beneath my hands for one last time. Goodbye to the happy memories, the sad memories, the funny memories. Goodbye to his elated face, the morning walks and the countless nights we spent together. He pushes his face into my hand, his ...

“I think I just met the happiest person in the world!” I say after looking in the bathroom mirror. It felt good to be happy for once....

He hides, under the shelter of an

U m b r e l l a

Out of the rain.

He lurkes, in every child’s

I m a g i n a t i o n

Waiting to inflict pain.

He stares, ever observing the phenomenon

O f l i f e

Which is exploited in surplus.

He fears, that he will be resigned to

N i g h t m a r e s

Because that is his purpose....

There’s a knock at the door just as I’m drying the dishes and I look up at the clock. 10:46pm. Could I really be bothered to answer it? No, I wasn’t but suddenly the knocking intensifies, getting louder and faster with every second.

“Alright, I’m coming!” I shout, hurring out the kitchen. The hallway is dark, so I switch a side lamp on to illuminate my path and grab the door keys from the bowl ne...

The tension in the air is as thick as the gray cloud that obscures the sun’s rays. I’m sat on a chair at the back of the stage with the rest of the candidates, trying to take it all in, trying to study as many of the faces in the crowd as possible. My knee bobbing up and down on overdrive. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. A human becoming president in such a diverse world? I don’t think so. Nei...

For a monster so capable of destruction, I found it to be quite beautiful to behold. The true peak of mankind’s engineering, born into the world after many mistakes were made. It, the epitome of its era, reduced to a killing machine evolving on its own concious knowledge. And now it had turned on the men which had built it. As I stood in the line with the others, waiting for the general’s command,...