I run terrified he’ll catch up. My breathing heavy and hoarse. My legs almost giving out. “ I’ll make it less painful if you give up! “ he sneers his friends laughing in the distance. The sun is setting and I don’t think Liam’s giving up anytime soon. “ Liam please! I swear I didn’t do it! “ I scream as I come to a tree. The knife in his hand glints as the sun is almost down. His eyes are cruel an...

The red trees glow eerily, still despite a breeze blowing. Andy would call it comfortable, except nothing is comfortable here. The sky is a yellowish golden color, not orange though. And obviously the trees are not green. Every time Andy has been here, it’s looked the same, so they don’t know if this is supposed to be day or night.

When Andy gets close enough, they can see that the big tree in t...

Nightmares. Everybody has experienced a nightmare. Even you. Even me. Except I live In my nightmare;because my nightmare is my own mind. My mind eats itself away like a parasitic worm. I feel so deeply I wish I could never feel again. I feel and think even at times I know I shouldn’t. Even when I’m doing the simplest tasks like washing up or drying my hair. To overcome these feelings I read. There...

The tree was red crystal branching from a thin trunk that dug it’s roots into the barren earth. I climbed it, my skin brushing against the pines, my feet digging into the junctions between branches. Above, the stars shone brightly. In Almerine, there are no stars. The light pollution and smoke outside the dome only allow hazy moonlight to blanket the City of Hope.

I cracked my neck and grabbed o...

In the right lighting anything can be beautiful. Frightening, majestic or a let down it’s up to you. One location, the site of many occurrences. Happy, sad or none at all. You arrive in the night, one lone tree illuminated. Will you leave or stay to see an entire forest in the morning....

I wake up gasping.

I keep on having the same nightmare about the same place.

The red tree in the middle of the woods at night. The stars are shone upon me and a mysterious man in a hooded cloak.

It’s like he’s telling me to go there to see him.

"Dammit," I stand up from my bed.

I put my blonde hair into a messy platt and wear my clothes and then clip my cloak on before putting my hood...

Somehow, I’d wandered here again. The dusty desert air was so distinct, so familiar, so warm. I couldn’t keep myself from gulping in a big breath of it. It almost felt, revitalizing. I considered the peculiarity of that as I puffed up little clouds of sand with each slow step I took. My mouth widened into a grin, and it forced me to notice that dry salt coating my skin and now reaching the tip of ...

There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.

-Aaron Laurit...

red

Everything red

As I woke up sweat drenched in my bed

My nightmare made me think I was dead

It filled up my head with existential dread

Red?

Everything red?

How could I be so messed up in the head

Of course I wouldn’t be dead

If not how did I wake up here in my bed

I woke up here in my bed…

My red bed?

My bed is not red

I sunk into this bed which is not mine cause it’s red

The covers consumed...

This recurring nightmare…needs to stop.

For my sake.

First, it’ll start out like a peaceful starry night, the wind blowing gently, and peaceful silence fills the atmosphere.

Then the stars dim out of sight, the sky turns inky black, and the tree I stand in front of turns red with a glow of something that’s scuffing its feet behind me.

I slowly turn my head, and there it is.

A wide, sharp smil...