Chasing Lights

In the classroom comic I made the gutters between each tier different sizes and colors. I wanted to show the progress of the teacher and students understanding of each other. In the first two tiers it is large and red. Red on a stop light normally symbolizes stop and the size to show how disconnected they are. In between the second and third it is yellow. Yellow on a stoplight means yield and the size is slightly smaller to show they are starting to connect. The final gutter is green…

the happiness, joy, and hope had been sucked out of existence here. ‘Dark like my life.’ I take a step forward and the floor lits up with a blinding light. So bright that I couldn’t look down anymore. I was awestruck at that moment. At my feet, the light was bright, blinding, but all around me the light diffused into the dark. Where the light gently kissed the dark expanse, there was a small rainbow of color. Colors I had never seen, so bright and beautiful I stopped breathing. Then it was…

Doomsday The sky was on fire, burning Charlotte’s smooth skin as she walked with her parents down the busy Boston streets. The roaring engines of the cars came to a screeching halt at the traffic light Charlotte’s head turned swiftly as her eyes fixed themselves on a group of men dressed from head to toe in black. Charlotte couldn’t help but stare. The man in the back stopped walking, and his glassy eyes met hers. “Mom do you see those men?” Charlotte curiously asked. Her mother glanced up…

I couldn’t sleep. The images kept going through my head, over and over again, an eternally revolving circuit; a dog chasing its tail. The tinted light from the street seemed to blaze into my tiny room with the brilliance of a noon sun, but it wasn’t the light of illumination, it was the light of revelation. In this light you could see the truth; you could see where the things in the shadow lurked, the ones that fed on fear. I tried to ignore the book, face down on my nightstand, as I swung my…

Spirit Fire Star-fire burned Frost’s tail. She whipped it out of the flame. The huge night dragon behind her roared in anger as she breathed her frozen fire and hit him. She dived down, seeing a narrow tunnel where the night dragon would not fit. She would be there in three, two, one. . . . Smash! Frost jumped awake and was confused. Where was she? She heard a growl and realized she was in the tunnel and had smashed into a wall. She glided through the tunnel slowly, so she didn’t hit another…

into the bottom lock and turned it to the right. Click. She placed another key into her privately installed lock above the knob. Turned the same direction. Click. When Lola swung open the door, afternoon sunlight spilled into the dark living room, chasing away shadows and washing over the grey granite floor. The walls in the living room were bare. The apartment’s only furniture was two beds, a tv and a small circular wooden circle table in the middle of the kitchen. Two pink blankets were…

step I take deeper into the wilderness. I think I have shaken them from my path and they are trailing far behind me in the distance. I hear the voices again, this time they sound like they are right next to me. I run, I run faster than a cheetah chasing its prey. I go deep into the forest, in the distance a tall, ancient house, crumbling at the very touch seems to be illuminated. The moon reflects off the moss clinging onto the wall. Metal bars engulf the castle locking…

splattered on them. The floor now home to several young corpses. Luckily none moved when I poked them with my umbrella, giving me the signal it was clear. After I gave my friends a thumbs up, they hurried into the hallway. Lights flickered on and off quickly. "What's with the lights?" Samie pondered, trying to stay quiet. But before I could answer Samie, I heard a loud thud as if something or someone fell. "Wait," I stopped and put my arm in front of them, prohibiting them from moving on.…

The path ahead was brilliantly lit by the light of the nearly-full moon. But seeing the path ahead did not give the driver and guard who sat in front, an advantage or help them see the two gleaming stiletto blades that flashed through the trees until they felt the cool metal slicing through their…

mysterious place full of never-ending clumps of trees(that was so an exaggeration...it is small in a way but hard to navigate so no one has ventured in it much)...I was having these cozy thoughts as I played tag with my best friend Leo, running around and chasing each other passionately from one place to another.…