She was wearing all black when I met her. A long black dress, not many details, not too flashy. But it wasn’t plain, it was calm. She sipped her wine slowly and I could tell that she was bored, out of place, un belonging. I wondered her name before I questioned anything else about her. I started to run a list of names through my head, names that would fit this woman full of essence whom stood on t...

The alarm schreeched for the third time before she moved. Not because she hadn’t heard it, but because pulling herself out of the comfort of her cold bed felt like walking through wet cement. The room was dim, despite the curtains being slightly opened. The pale morning light flattened everything into a dull shade of gray. A half-drunk glass of water say by on her nightstand, dusty and warm wit...

Isabella and Drew were best friends, they were the kind of friends that are hard to come by, almost too rare to be explained. They wanted to spend their last summer together doing something adventurous. They would be leaving for college soon, two separate sides of the country. They desperately needed today to be memorable, a moment in their friendship that would never be forgotten.

“I want this ...