“Yeah, a dust cloud formed when the asteroid hit, rendering one of my eyes useless,” Amanda explains. Now I climb out of my bunker and take a look outside. All I see is the vast emptiness and the darkness. The flashlight is the only form of light I can clearly see. “Can we go find one of my friends,” I ask.…
A quiet Christmas night in 1998 in the affluent neighborhood of Los Altos, California rolled around, celebrations having just finished and adults and children alike heading to the comforts of their beds . The houses stood in an eerie silence, foreshadowing the grim despair that was soon to follow. Shawn, a 16 year old juvenile, stabbed his father with a kitchen knife, inflicting wounds to his face, neck and arms. Shawn’s mother vividly describes waking up to the blood covered body of her husband, the brownish specks of dried blood scattered over the sheets. His father remembers a moment of disorientation, until he finally realized his attacker was his own son, and proceeded to tackle him to the ground.…
“She just sits there, staring at the wall. Sometimes she blinks and awareness flickers in her eyes as she sits up, but then it disappears and she sinks back into her corner.” “What does she do all day?” “Strokes a scrap of velvet. Screams, Cries.…
“Alright, we’re going to start this training session now.” Sabra said. “We’re going to start with Cardio, make sure to keep up. Don’t stop running until we make it to the glade. Now let’s go!”…
The morning sun snuck through the cracks of the curtains and hit my eyes. I groaned out, and realized I wasn't alone. Harry was still sound asleep. I crawled over him, and into the bathroom. I got the water ready, and walked out to grab new clothes while the water warmed up.…
Lia reaches higher and pulls herself up the rough rock wall. Her fingers grasp the big shelf of rock directly over her head. Above, there is a complicated spot on the wall. Lia has never made it past before. Briefly, options are considered in her mind.…
“But mom I wanted some cookies!!”, was the first sentence I said when she found me hiding behind the couch in the basement. It was early in the morning, quiet, and everyone was sleeping. We just finished moving to our new house. I was in second grade and as a little kid I always wanted candy and sugar like any other normal kid. My mom was sleeping and was the only one awake.…
Friday after the business party, I walk into school with Michael and that's when I see him. Long black hair cut into a fringe. Big, doe eyes that could make anyone melt. Kinda short and slightly tan with tattoos decorating his arms and chest. I'm so caught up in checking him out that I don't realise I'm burning a hole into the kids forehead.…
Pretending that nothing had happened with Chris had slowly gotten easier over the past few months. The two girls definitely weren't as close as they had been before; plus, now Caitlyn had days where she was just mopey and would lock herself up in her room...thankfully those times were indistinguishable from the days that she just wanted to game for hours. But it was better than it had been when Chris had said she was going to leave....as uncomfortable as their situation could sometimes be, she didn't want her big sister gone from her life, Caitlyn missed her far too much when she wasn't around. " Yeah.…
He refused to go inside. His father came out and pleaded with him. The brother asked why are you having a party for the younger brother. “I have always done what you have asked” he said, “but I have never gotten this”. His father told him that everything he had was his.…
"Mom, I need help." I said as I was sitting at the table looking at a bunch of numbers on a piece of paper the bank had mailed to me in my name. "What is it now Bri." , she said as she approached. "What am I doing here?…
The fake smile on your face. The lights beaming at you. The makeup applied on thick. The lights now fading. That feeling of panic as you realize, that you have to get to the green room before the audience exits the theater for intermission.…
It was just a normal night, but the room felt awkward. At the beginning of the week my mom stated that she wanted to talk. It was very unusual that she just wanted to sit down and talk. The tension got bigger and bigger; and suddenly she said, “Let’s go upstairs.” My anxiety grew, and I thought my heart was going to pop out of my chest.…
Unable to find one’s way; not knowing one’s whereabouts. It felt as if we were in the middle of a desert and there wasn’t civilization in miles. Are stomachs were growling at us, our mouths were as dry as bone. We had no idea what we had to do because Neither have us never been put in this situation before and no one has ever told me what to do if this ever happened. This is what it means to be lost and that is exactly what Sam and I were.…
Gingerbread Man on the loose. It was Christmas eve and Grandma was making gingerbread man and houses for him to live in. All of us made gingerbread man and houses for all of the gingerbread people. When we got done cutting out the gingerbread people grandma stuck them in the oven to bake, we started on their houses out of giant gram crackers. I use so many sweets I couldn’t even count and mine was the best out of all my family of course.…