“Sara, come on! We got to go.”

Her mother came into her room while she was starting the eleventh chapter. She sighed, her friends had gotten her mother to join the fight of getting her to go to the party. She looked up from her book glancing at her mother. She was a strong Mexican woman, she had jet black hair and piercing brown eyes, she wasn’t a woman you wanted to mess with. Her mother had gro...

This little bundle of energy barreled into the living room with excitement as she tried to tell me something. I watched as her arms and legs moved as her speech came out pushed together with gibberish. Confusion clearly written on my face while she continued on with passion.

“I’m sorry baby, I just don’t know.”

I spoke through laughter as she tried. Her frustration grew more and more as she rep...

Her frustration grew more and more as she repeated the same sentence. I knew she was trying to say, to convey what she wanted, but her toddler speech was so hard to understand sometimes.

“Sweetie, just slow down… mommy is trying to hear you.”

The tears welled up in her little eyes as I still was not receiving what she was laying down. She started patting her leg, so I thought maybe she hurt it...

He missed the days of when she walked beside him. The path always seemed welcoming, inviting, when it was the two of them. The morning air didn’t have as much bite and the ocean didn’t seem as ominous when she held his hand. The days where gone after the doctor said the damage was more than could be fixed.

One car accident, one mistake, that’s all it took to steal her freedom. She was wild, alwa...

One day, while I visited my grandmas old pawn shop, I came across a book with a silver lined cover. The pages shimmered and the writing was bold like it was written to be read in the fading light. I walked around the shop, she said I could pick one thing, but I always found myself standing in-front of this book.

“Do you think I could take this one?”

I said pointing at it, I figured I could kill...

Anna looked around their surroundings while she watched her daughter play on the swings. Nothing was the same after the flare, life had gotten increasingly complicated and people kept vanishing. Watchers walked around with riot shields and people were confined indoors.

Her daughter loved the park though, before the flare Anna took her everyday. She looked over to her black haired, blue eyed, bea...

I was so excited to be awake this morning. In twenty-three short minutes I will be eight-teen. I watched the clock as my mother set the table with every food she could possibly buy. I looked at it all with great anticipation.

“Now remember son, you can’t eat everything. Just a bite from each, okay?”

She was so worried I would be in pain, whatever that is. I hear it’s miserable, but I’ve never f...

She was always told to avoid the water, she had been warned of the fairy folk, yet she went anyway. When she arrived she saw the horse standing next to the water the light shining off it’s black coat. As she approached it the horse was eager to touch her, it began to rub against her.

The horse’s coat began to turn into a sticky, gooey, substance pulling the girl in like a spider web. She began t...

They never see, they do not know, they can never understand.

I watch and wait, I will not hesitate, showing all I know.

Their secrets, their lies, everything they try to hide.

One day soon it will all be brought to light.

They think they are safe, they think no one sees, but they can’t find me.

I hide in plain sight, I hatch my plan, I will make them understand.

Every action births a conseq...

Lights were flashing throughout the campus which could only mean one thing, this day was gonna be rough. I followed the line of people that were headed for the on campus bomb shelter when I saw her, the girl that had been ghosting me all semester.

“Hey June, looks we are going to the same shelter. Pretty cool, right?”

She was already not impressed.

“Bug off Mike.”

With a roll of her eyes and...