The trees were blackened stumps and the once bustling city was a pile of rubble. Sirens wailed but the people on the streets wailed louder.

A plume of smoke billowed in the sky, darkening the world and hiding the sun. When I looked around I saw nothing familiar.

I coughed into my shirt and scanned the desolate wasteland, hoping to find something-anything-that I could call home.

As I trailed over ...

You and I laugh at the joke

That wasn’t really funny

But I don’t care because you

Because you understand me

But then you suddenly switch up

And you’re a whole new person

And when I think it won’t last

You have left me in the dust

I’m a messed up kid

And you all know it

The way I complain when

Things don’t go my way

Like when you told me

To tie my shoe but didn’t

And then I tripped on it

And the...

I was swinging from the tree branches, the tire swing spinning out of control. Amir was watching from the sidelines.

At last I jumped off of the tire swing and rolled into the grass.

Amir was laughing at how my skirt was now stained with green. I didn’t care. I got up and walked over to her and stood beside her.

“I haven’t seen the sunset like this before,” I said, recalling the sky filled with pi...

Excerpt from my the last chapter from my trilogy “Ten Year War”

Only a fool would believe that I would survive the night. The way he stared at me was unnerving.

“You bitch,” I replied, doing my best to avoide his prying eyes. “If you want me dead, just do it now.”

He didn’t say anything. He was still staring at me, those stupid hazel eyes sharper than needles.

“I’m waiting. Crown doesn’t want me...

“LAIR!”

I chucked the fruit bowl at her face but she ducked just in time and it hit the wall and clattered to the floor. Apples and oranges rolled on the carpet.

Mrs. Bronx had started for the candle stick that was burning faintly. I threw an apple at her but it missed and landed by her feet. She tripped over it and fell to the floor.

Before she could get up, I grabbed the candle stick from its pl...

Tied to the blue

The yellow ship in the harbor

Dips above the waves

A fisherman waves to his wife

As a bell tolls

Signaling his departure

The mask is slipping

Off the pale-man’s face

As he hobbled over the man

“Do you need help with your luggage?”

The fisher shakes his head

“It looks like it’s going to rain.”

The pale-faced man raises an eyebrow

And looks up at the sky

Not a cloud, no speck of...

“Let’s skip the pastries, shall we? You and I both know we’re not here for small talk.”

Enoch scowled at the man. “Then what are we here for,” he said blatantly.

Lucardi grunted. “Definitely not small talk.” He slid a bulging folder across the table to Enoch.

“What is it?” Enoch raised an eyebrow. “Don’t tell me you changed your mind about it all.”

Lucardi smirked. “How did you know?”

Enoch shiver...

I had been friends with her for seven years. Ten years of playing dolls from when we had our first play date.

The longer we were friends, the tighter we got. We passed notes under the desk, shared makeup and secrets and clothes.

But when we reached jr high, Liz started acting…Differant.

Sometimes she was right bext to me and other times she was so far away even when she was standing next to me.

It...

He fell

To his death

The rocky edges

Of the mountain

It was a hike

That’s all it was

A hike to the

Very top

But what was

Once fun

An idea to

See the veiw

Turned into

The ambulances,

The sirens

To take him away

Taken by the wind

And his friend

Vowed that he

Would never.

He would never

Ever climb that

Mountain again

For his friend

Was taken by the wind

Falling asleep

Was harder

After that

Wit...

She stared at the post-it note knowingly.

She couldn’t. She just couldn’t. She looked at the boy who had planted it there.

“Why are you like this? Why do you write instead of speaking?” She put a hand on his shoulder. “I’m right here.”

Oliver nodded, not saying a thing. “Are we going?” He signed.

The girl rolled her eyes. “Why aren’t you talking to me lately? This isn’t like you.”

Oliver’s face sc...