A bloodthirsty tyrant travels into a series of poor villages every year to capture children, who are promised a life of wealth for themselves and their families if they manage to survive.

The lure of wealth and the desire to live overpowers the kids’ care for one another, causing them to kill each other in the most horrific ways. Most of the ones that live, find that they’ve lost themselves in t...

Eager to start moving, Benjamin hurried to the car and started the engine, but his two friends lagged behind.

“Come on!” he shouted.

“Now don’t be like that! You don’t know what disaster we’ve avoided by being late,” Liam said.

It turned out that Liam was right. Once they encountered the morning traffic jam, a plane slammed into several of the cars in front of them engulfing them in flames. ...

You call to me,

And disrupt my life.

A promise made,

That’s free from strife.

Are you real?

How can you be?

What is this,

Your gift to me?

Dare I look?

Dare I gaze?

Dare I consider

A fall from Grace?

A frozen Will,

But can’t I choose?

And if I do,

Then will I lose?

You call to me,

But I’ll not go.

I’ll turn around,

And keep control....

Jack's car vibrated heavily as it halted next to the peculiar stranger. The rain was coming down in sheets, and it was his attire that made him stop.  This guy is surely going to freeze to death, he thought. The temperature was thirty-four degrees, and the man was wearing knee-length gray shorts, a sleeveless shirt, and flip flops. 

Jack rolled down his window.

"You okay man?" Jack yelled over ...