I knew it was coming before it was even here. I could smell it in the air. The ground smelled moist and earthy, even the sidewalks and streets. The birds were silent, except for the ravens and crows, they sang their sad songs to fill the silence the other birds left behind when they took shelter. The wind was strong with and howling, flipping the leaves on every tree to show their back sides. Wavi...

“You have 5 minutes, starting now.” Growled the tall masked man infront of me. I couldn’t believe I locked myself in my room with him. What do I do, why the hell did I run upstairs instead of to the back door when I had the chance? Why is he giving me 5 minutes to convince him not to kill me? What the hell is going on? My brain felt like scattered puzzle pieces as I searched for something to say, ...

I can’t pinpoint when this crush formed, but I’m certain of when I realized it. We were sitting on the back porch, our phones in hand, in comfortable silence listening to videos through our headphones and passing a blunt back and forth. I was watching a video and when it said your name, I would’ve thought nothing much of it, if my heart hadn’t skipped three beats.

I was so thankful you hadn’t no...

You always hear the saying “never take the same path anywhere, having a routine path makes it easier for predators to hunt you.” But no one ever really listens to that until it’s too late. I certainly never listened until it was too late. I’ve had brushes with danger before, a man following me in his car trying to get me in it, men following me until someone else scare them off, sketchy women in p...

“You have two choices. Leave and the boy lives, or stay and I hunt you and the child down. And when I catch you, I’ll kill him in front of you.” Jackson sneered at me, knife in hand, gesturing with it towards my sons room. I thought for sure he’d never find us here. How’d he find us so quickly anyways? Could I make it around him and get to the baby? No, he’d either block my way or kill him now. I ...