I was looking at the tumult of indigo and turquoise, as we dived are hands now separated. I looked at the enveloping waves beneath, at their majestic and overpowering nature. At their dreadful skill of submerging a man, and both captivating him. So many ships had survived that tumult, that endless churning and restless turning that never ceased; only calmed and then became a maelstrom of petrifyin...

“I got the gold!” I screamed over the wind, “let’s go!”

I grabbed my sister’s hand and pull her towards the cliff edge with me. She nods slowly in my direction, then we jump.

She began screaming but I clamped my hand over her mouth, if they heard us we were done.

“Aim your feet down and plug your nose! Then just let me pull you.” I said into her ear as loud as I dared.

I could tell she was terrif...

Shattering winds aggressively wrestle their way through the tall grass on the cliff’s edge, giving it an effective comb through. We approach the edge, gooseflesh pimpling down my limbs. A shiver crawls up my spine. The waves scream their icy tune as they thrash against the bottom of the cliff. I spare a glance down, my stomach dropping at the distance. I turn to my sister, who presses her thin lip...

I grab my sister’s hands and pull her towards the direction of the cliff edge with me. She nods slowly in my direction. Then we jump.

For a millisecond, we’re weightless, falling fast as the wind whips against our faces. I feared we would shattered apart in the air, but instead I grabbed tighter. The sea is clashed up to meet up, but just before we sink in, everything shifts.

We don’t crash, or...

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I wake in the middle of the night, her sobs softly creeping through the thin walls of our house. _She is not okay_. A...

The wind whips through us all I hear is my sister screaming at the top of her lungs. In her mind I have doomed us both to death. The truth however is so much more complicated than that. Michelle held her sister close despite her clawing to get away. The cliff wall had several trees sticking out of the side but none were all that big. She knew that the trees would not save them but they could poten...

Sara climbed up to the cliff edge and clambered to the top. She was unsteady on her feet, so I took her arm and pulled her a couple meters back in case she fell. “Are you okay,” I asked. It was her first time climbing to the headwater and I was as apprehensive as she was to make the jump.

“Now or never,” she smiled weakly, clearly unable to unroot her feet from where they contacted the earth.

“Com...

Upon our solacing descent, an unusual calm embraced us. Weird figures— anomalies?— spun around us in a playful swirl. The number of colors shooting forward felt like it would blind us at any moment. I’d tighten my grasp on my sister’s hand and look over my shoulder. A familiar feeling lived on her expression too, our collective confusion only guiding us to question even more. I felt we’d been fall...

“What if we are wrong?” my sister breathes, as the biting wind snaps at her words, throwing the tendrils around her jaw like Medusa’s snakes.

I turn to her, my blue fire gaze meeting her forest green eyes. We are only half-sisters, a shared blood of our mother Athena the goddess of warfare, both our fathers are unknown, “But what if we are right?”

We both swallow, our throats bobb...

They're here. I can hear the cars approaching, the engines stopping, the doors opening.

I tap my sister awake.

She opens her eyes soundlessly. There's a question in her eyes and I simply nod. No words are said. She knows.

Footsteps pad to the house as we leave the barn through the little hole in the wall.

Our sacks are already packed. We never expected more than a few seconds warning. I toss t...