Ash checked the flowers in their hand. They already seemed to be drooping, even though it hadn’t been that long since they got them.

The hospital waiting room was busy, but quiet. Ash’s attention drifted sometimes to the TV hung on the wall. The news showed a masked yellow figure, flying between buildings, although the picture was really blurry. The news reporter said she wasn’t sure whether it wa...

“You’ve gotta be kidding me. You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me.”

Jess stared inside the glowing cavern, mouth agape. Martin stared at her and the mysterious subtle glow bouncing off of her dirty face. Martin thought about how quickly she got dirty even though they hadn’t been on the island all that long. After a second, Jess gestured in a snappy, almost over exaggerated way towards the inside of...

I don’t know what happened to my brother, but I wish I did. I wish I could tell you exactly where he was, and I wish I could tell you what happened, but I can’t. It’s hard to believe he’s just gone. No notes. No evidence. Not even a single sign of a struggle, or anything that would make this seem even … I don’t know, premeditated? It’s strange. I know it’d be worse if Ethan was violently murdered,...

Bruce readjusted himself in his office chair. He took a look at this schedule, checked the clock, and sat back in a more comfortable position. He was gonna fire somebody today. Well, lay off was probably a better term, but it wouldn’t make a difference to the employee. It wasn’t something that he dreaded or desired, he was actually pretty neutral about the whole thing. It was just another part of ...

Thomas kept looking down at the old paper map, and looking back up at the horizon, and then back down at the map. The map showed a small town, with roads weaving between blocks of buildings, some of which he knew. He remembered the old coffee shop where his sister worked, the small building he learned how to drive in, and the school with the large field he played baseball in. It was a map of Thoma...