“Take this,” Evelyn said, handing a purple bottle to a man who’s eyes were swolllen shut and red. “Drink this once a day until it’s gone.”

The man nodded and pulled the cork off of the bottle to take a sip of the liquid. A belch escaped from his mouth, his face paled, and he looked as if he might pass out. After a few minutes, he looked better and got off of Evelyn’s table.

“Have a good day!” Ev...

The ropes burned into my skin as I struggled to untie them. I had been sitting in a rickety old chair that wasn’t comfortable for the last five hours. I didn’t know where I was or who I was with. My head felt like it was going to explode ever since I woke up. Fear threatened to kill me before anyone ever did.

The room was large and lit by two barely working light bulbs and using the light, I coul...

When I look in the mirror, I see someone staring back at me. But it isn’t me looking from the mirror.

It’s a young girl standing in a field of flowers. Dressed in a white floral gown with her golden hair tied in a neat bun on the top of her head. She held a basket filled with brightly colored wildflowers.

As I stared into her ice blue eyes, I wondered what happened to her to make her end up like...

“Hurry up!” Jenna yelled angrily at the two pairs of footsteps behind her.

“We’re coming! You’re going to fast,” Parker called up to her. The girl next to him nodded.

“Well we don’t have that much time before someone notices we’re gone and comes out here,” Jenna told them. She scowled and looked down at her shoes which were filled to the brim with an uncomfortable amount of sand.

When the other...

A neck arched high in the sky

Poised as if fire is to breathe from its long snout

What is your goal?

Where will you fly off to?

Perhaps I’ll see it soon....