Fiction

Should I do it? It looks fun. But my gut tells me not to. Why does this decision elude me!? Should I do it? I'll just do it-NOPE! I don't want to! It's scary! But it also looks fun! I should just leave.

"Some say the world will end in fire." Robert Frost's line echoes in my head, quickening my heartbeat and breaths, as if I should just give up and succumb to the soils surrounding us.

The Thing Itself, part 2, Anna

The Thing Itself, part 1, Lexi

Once upon a time there was a queen of a small kingdom. The Queen’s name was Willow and she ruled the Kingdom named GrassLand.

“Do you know what it's like to have everything taken from you? 

Snatched from your fingers, like fish gobbled by the preying bird? 

Will I ever see you again?"

I felt my vision blur as my eyes filled with hot tears.

The best thing that entered my life, now may become my worst memory. Leon will be nothing but a memory. A bad memory.

I am blindfolded.

I cannot see.

She leads me through the woods.

Holding my hands and walking backwards.

I smile and laugh, feeling free.

She stops, and so do I.

What is it? I ask her.

Noah stared out the window of his house at the beautiful beach before him. Gentle waves brushed the shore, dragging sand away when they left. The sky overhead was blue and clear, and the soft scent of saltwater filled the air.

Breaking news appears on the tv saying there is a new epidemic and so everyone starts racing to the stores to get supplies like food,toilet paper, paper towels and other things when all of a sudden all the lights go out in the store, everyone star

I've never really gotten to enjoy the moon at its fullest. I am always nowhere to be found, as all of my friends like to sit under the stars.

It wasn’t intended to be anything more than a brief stroll along the forest's edge. She was never meant to stray from the cover of the treeline, but the city calls to her, as it tends to do.