The bus has been delayed

10 minutes I will be late

But still enough time

To be on time

Yet it’s irritating

Completely and utterly infuriating

A matter out of my control

Always leaves me exasperated

But it’s alright

I have time

No need to get upset

As it’s best to just let

Your mind have a rest...

I don’t know what I feel anymore. At first it was fear. Gut wrenching, intense, painful. Those were the words I would use to describe the feelings of my past self. I couldn’t come to terms that I would die. Dying itself was something I feared. I feared that I wouldn’t get to do anything I dreamed of. Perhaps I’ve come to accept it. I don’t fear death anymore. I see it as a relief from my illness. ...

“What is this?” Ash asked with curiosity.

“Oh you’ll see. Just taste it,” Daisy encouraged.

“Alright,” he responded hesitantly, looking at the strange drink in front of him.

He hesitantly sipped the drink. A sweet taste erupted in his mouth and he pulled back in surprise.

“That is liquid sugar,” he declared.

“No it’s not. It’s called a milkshake. It’s meant to be sweet,” Daisy said.

“You mea...

“How could you do this, Kaiden?” Lyra asked, her lip beginning to tremble.

He raised an eyebrow and sighed. “How could I do this? I mean it was really simple if I’m being honest,” Kaiden began to say.

“Stop that! Stop with your snarky jokes…” Lyra said her chest heaving and her head hung low. “I-I thought we were friends. What happened? How could you leave us like this? How could you betray us?”...

The salty breeze

Brushes past my face

The warm sand beneath me

Grounds me to this earth

Not a single person to be seen

Across this vast beach

It’s just my thoughts and me

My thoughts are intrusive

Always there reminding me

Of the things I did wrong

And can never do right

But here on this empty beach

My intrusive thoughts are kept at bay

And the turmoil in my head

Seems to quiet down

A thought ...

“Your crown is made of the people’s bones and hunger,” I sneer, staring straight into the eyes of the haughty man.

“Stop this at once!” he demands, his voice filled with authority. Yet his eyes filled with fear give him away.

“And that throne your sitting on? It hardly belongs to you,” I spit out voicing the anger of many.

“How dare you?” The king says, a hand gripped onto the side of his thron...

“Hello, can see me?” I call out to the person next to me. I wave my hands in front of their face, trying to get their attention.

Have I become a ghost? My mind wonders if I really have, no one can see me. I woke up today…and I wasn’t there! I looked on the mirror, but I could not see myself. I tried to get other people’s attention, but they can not see me.

I groan and flop down to the ground. I...

Cut the white wire

I say through the walkie-talkie

The signal is unsteady

And my voice sounds garbled.

What was that

I can’t hear you

The signal isn’t coming through.

I said cut the white wire

Only the white wire

Our situation is dire

Please cut the white wire.

Im trying to cut the right wire

But it is ever so important

That I know the color of the wire.

The white wire

Never the red wire

I ...

“Promise me you won’t laugh at me,” I ask my friend already regretting my telling her anything.

“Does this have something to do with why your late?” She asks.

I glare at her.

“I won’t. I promise,” she says, the corner of her lips already beginning to turn up slightly, threatening to let out a laugh at any moment.

“I…” I begin to say, hesitating.

“You…” my friends says, trying to get me to co...

Desperate. My heart beats fast and my breath is ragged. I turn around with anticipation and worry as I run forward. Please let there be an escape from this place.

The gnarly trees with their twisted roots try to trip me and prevent me from leaving. The fog shades my vision and I cry out in frustration. This whole forest is trapping me within.

Would it be cruel to wish for aid? For it was my own ...