His sword came down, and I could see the faces of my people in his blade. The frozen shriek of Kit Darmondy, the town baker. The shamed look of Frank Alegenon, the banker from down the street. The looks of pale horror from the Udesky twins. The sharp blade that was once clean-cut through Viktor Cross’s throat in one swift and effortless movement. Harold, the executioner, had that effect with a b...
Hector Hech found the leprechaun in the alleyway behind the $5 Laundromat (cleverly named Lana$ Laundromat5) and the sex shop that opened at bizarre hours (11pm-1am). Despite where the leprechaun was, he wasn’t doing anything lude or brazen. He was just. Standing there with his back against the wall, wearing a pair of sunglasses that not only covered his eyes entirely but the sides of his face. He...
Chuck said these words, but they weren’t to me. At least it didn’t feel like it. He was staring forward, like the others standing around me. He spoke to the vast garden of flowers just before us.
My eyes ping-ponged between Chuck and the bed of flowers. The colors of red, blue, pink, and lavender became nothing but a blur.
When Sue told me that she kept the hair of everyone she dated, I wanted to jump out of her vehicle. I'm aware that she was driving 80 down a freeway, but I was just fine with the consequences.
So. Me being kidnapped by a pirate is my fault. Like…thinking about it, I can’t really validate much. It’s literally my fault.
Allow me to elaborate.
Sherry called things off with me on Thursday, and I was in a funk. I know our time together was short, but that doesn’t hold from the fact that being dumped sucks.
So, on Friday…I was…looking to fuck. Sorry to sound blunt. And sorry to sou...
It all started with the old cars hidden in the woods. Charlie Mi was the one who’d found them, said he
He said he'd found them on a random Sunday afternoon while wandering around Shadowbrook with nothing to do.
“It’s just down this way for a bit longer,” Charlie said. There was a slight crack to his voice, for just a split second. The confidence that he had when we entered Shadowbrook was gone,...
Mom said we didn't live in a house. She said that we could only call it a house if it had a roof and four walls, with doors and windows throughout those walls.
"We live in a wall, Becca," she said one day as she swept the floor. I have no idea why she invested so much time into sweeping the floors when they constantly looked dirty. I had the dirty feet to prove that. "It's just the way the worl...
When the UFOs appeared, from out of the clouds, I was relieved. They came from out of nowhere on a Tuesday evening that threatened rain. The forecast projected showers for the next few days, and I'd kept my eye on them throughout the day, to see when the gray would release. My phone had been going on the fritz with texts and posts about the foreign objects emerging from the clouds, but I'd seen th...
At some point in 2025, a law was passed that allowed human beings to splice their DNA with whatever they wanted to be. I had no idea that something so stupid had been discussed, let alone passed. Regardless, it didn’t take long for people to start splicing themselves with whatever they desired.
Some of these combinations were pretty basic, for example: Mrs. Santoro, my second-grade teacher, had ...
