I’ve never been the emotional type.

Well, not in my adult life, anyways. I was taught to never show my emotions in front of others who would exploit them. A very cold a cruel lesson taught by my parents at a very young age whenever I would let a traitorous tear slip past my careful barriers.

It’s been 15 years since I’ve last cried, but that changed today.

It’s a da...

My stomach is rumbling.

Well, it’s almost always rumbling, but right now it’s rumbling a little more than usual.

I somehow let my younger brother, Jace, convince me not to take the tesserae this time, if for nothing but to make him smile a little bit. Not that it matters, anyways. My name is in 27 times today. I would put it in one hundred more times if it meant I could keep J...

It was a day like any other.

I’d woken up at my normal time to go to my workplace at the local coffee shop. It was pretty normal, as it usually is. I sat behind the cash register, taking orders, collecting money, and making large lattes.

“Hello, welcome to Marty’s, how can I help you today?” I joyfully explain to one of my customers. I look at those bouncy blonde curls and ocean blue ey...

It was never meant to get this far. Amara was only 16, but she was already down on life. Her parents were constantly abusive, and trained her to think that she was worthless at a very young age. It was only when Amara grew up that she realized the horrid way she was treated.

It was when she was 17 that she decided to leave the house for good. The only thing tying her heart to her house was he...

Have you ever heard the screams of a loved one, beggin you to let them in to save them. Have you ever refused, knowing that your loved one is dead. Well, I have.

On May 11, 2135, I got a call from my loved one. They called me in a frantic tone, exclaiming that a skin crawler had invaded her work, and she needed me to pick her up. I remember so vividly, how her inflection was just slightly lo...