The waters layed silent and the sky glowed with the brightly lit stars. I sat there imagining how my life would be to live here. To come out and see this setting every night. But this was only a trip and tomorrow I would be leaving. I didn’t come here alone though, more of a family trip, only me, dad, and my little brother Luis.

Dad had let me and Luis pick the vacation. We scrolled and scro...

The stands were filling up as the contestants stretched. Today wasn’t like any other day. Today was the big banquet of the year, ‘The Symposium.’ Lots and lots of people come to these events every year all over Ancient Greece. The winner takes a grand prize, although not many people have made it to the finals, what, with all the violence and competitiveness. Only a champion could go through with t...

Betrayal and lies don’t just happen out of nowhere. There had to have been a sign or a warning to stand out that didn’t quite catch my eye. Something had changed with him. Something that I couldn’t explain. I had tried to simply talk to him, but he wouldn’t even look at me. He turned cold out of thin air. I had wished for him to ‘break the ice.’ To talk to me, and not be so cold, to tell me what w...

I raced down the stairs as I heard the front door open. I had been waiting nearly two days for them to come back home. They walked inside with something unrecognizable in their hands. It was…a carseat? I walked closer to them and examined it. What was in it?

They crouched down with the carseat infront of them.

“Max, this is the new member of the family. Her name is Lilly.”

I started s...