Sammie Langston was a girl of wealth. Her mothers mothers mothers mother had helped found one of the biggest college in their town. She was the first woman to graduate college in their town. She became a business woman who became president of a boarding school outside town. Then she opened the college. Sammie’s family gained much wealth from the college.

Sammie’s great grandmother was a dean at t...

I was 13

Barely in high school

I had a friend

Lets call her Belle.

We lived near each other

Barely five minutes apart

So of course we walked home together.

Past the creek

Through the trees

Up a hill

Home.

She was exciting.

Extroverted

And fun

And new.

One day she asked to stop at a bench.

Secluded

And lonely

With not much foot traffic.

She rooted through her bag

While I sat and watched.

Out s...

Everybody knows of that house. The one on top of the hill. Vines growing from the walls and the musky scent of emptiness. Dares from kids, seeing who is brave enough to go in. They claim its haunted or possessed. If only it were that simple. Stay more than one night, and the house will kill you. Choked or stabbed or simply swallowed whole. I should know. My whole family disappeared there....

I stare at the love of my life. My collection of old books. Books that went out of print long ago. Books that were written before anyone alive was even born. My babies.

I didn’t always have this wonderful collection. I got my first old book when i had just turned 18. It was a graduation present from my grandfather. It had been passed down from grandfather to grandson since the 1800s. I reveled in...

“Wait! Please Maurice! Please i’m sorry!” Sam yells while chasing Maurice down the sand.

“Sam, stop.” Maurice stops abruptly, giving Sam a chance to catch him. “I’m tired of this. You always do this. You mess up and apologize and i accept it and then you mess up again!”

“I’m human!” Sam screams. “We make mistakes!” Maurice rolls his eyes at Sam.

“Well I can’t forgive this mistake.” He turns onc...

He walks away from the house. He cant look back at the dark and cold cabin. The icicles are dripping off the side. The spring has finally arrived. He is in three shirts, a jacket, two pairs of pants, three pairs of socks, and his boots. He shivers, his fingertips and lips are blue.

The cabin was supposed to be a retreat. A new years adventure for the man, his wife, and their five year old. It was...

We go to bed together

We wake up together

With barely 10 words being said

We eat together

We watch tv together

Staring at our phones instead

We dream together

We hope together

Trying to stay ahead

We used to talk

We used to laugh

We used to share

Words became nothing

But unsettling silence.

We do almost everything together

And im the loneliest ive ever been....

The sand so white

Trees blowing in the wind

The smell of salty air

And sweet drinks in coconuts.

A minute, a day, a week

Just getting away from it all

Smiling, swimming, sleeping

Every day is perfect

Laughing, lounging

Soaking up the tropical sun

Thriving

In a little slice of heaven...

John wasn’t always blind. He was born with sight. Then when he was 16, he got in a car accident and the glass cut his eyes too badly to be saved. Now he must navigate a world that caters to those who can see.

One day John is waiting for the bus. The same bus he takes every six months to get to the doctors. John made sure to move far from his parents, who overcared for him after the accident. Try ...