Our home is a shallow image of what it once was. Leaving everything behind to flee fills me with great shame, but what else was I supposed to do? Die there?

Sand was the last thing we thought would tear us apart. Being a planet of primarily snow and ice, sand and heat were the last thing that could show up. But God is a cruel, cruel man.

I remember it like it was yesterday. Scientists begged us...

Take up! Take sail! Take way to the land of sand and debris and everyone's fallen dreams.

Take one! Take two! Take all that you need when everything settles among you.

Take all! Take none! Take what you need, but know someone needs it more than you.

Take under! Take shelter! Take protection against the sweltering sun.

Take one! Take two! Take a movie or two, and pretend it's all just a scene.

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-This is my original story, I accidentally uploaded it to another account because I signed in with my email instead of my apple id-

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Joel couldn't even begin to wonder why Maise asked him to watch her dad. An old, dementia-ridden sap who never shuts up about the tons of plants in his house. Joel wasn't into plants. Joel was into picking fights with people and laughing when they recoil back. Bu...

"Testing... Testing... Okay! I hope this thing works. It'd be great if it did so I can use it in my English class... Oh! It's going. Okay, uh, uh, hi! My name is Piper, and this is my vocal diary. Mine. So if you have it, give it back! I live on the white dome near the park dome thing. I knowwwww whoooooo youuuuu areeeeee...

Just kidding.

Hmm... What to talk about. Oh! Paper. Haven't heard that ...

A fairytale character, that's what they call me. A fantastical, interesting character. Surrounded by flying unicorns and shapeshifting fae, but I was fantastical? The last human in that world was the most interesting thing they'd ever seen? I saw a squirrel morph into a dragon, but no, I am the most interesting thing. Sure. Humans aren't interesting. Humans don't have cool powers, though I know th...

The room was illuminated with the dim flickering of cheap, Walmart-brand candles. Giant bowls of candy and chips were littered across the coffee table. A couple of beer bottles lay on their side, motionless on the floor. The screaming could be heard from two dorm rooms down, but very rarely did Finn have his friends over long enough to play a round of Smash Brothers.

It was tense- Adam was Duck ...

“There is something… Odd about him.”

I barely heard what the teacher was prattling on about. I was too focused on what my friend had whispered in my ear. Mr. Todd was… odd? Was this some kind of joke Liam was trying to pull again? Todd and odd did rhyme…

“Haha, very funny,” I sneered. “You’re so clever.”

“Okay dude, for once I am dead serious.”

“Dead serious huh? Am I supposed to believe that...

When I look in the mirror, I see my past.

My past is a silent killer, stalking me. I cannot remember a thing, but everyone seems to remember it all. People come up to me and clamber on, “Do you remember?”

I do not.

I do not remember what you look like, I don’t remember who you are. Do you really remember this? Or are you making it up too?

I stare at myself in the mirror, I see the Devil hims...

Clean air. Clean water. Clean environment. That was the slogan for EERP, the Environmental Educational Research Program. They were promising a cleaner environment by 2050. And well, they did it.

It was a simple solution really. Start allocating money to protecting our wildlife. Start using plants as a more eco-friendly method of achieving things. Filter the air out and circulate it back in. The w...

Well-known secrets,

whisper to me

everything that I

fail to see. ...