I stood on the edge of the bridge as the man secures the stretchy rope to my harness. My legs are shaking violently and I’m starting to regret this decision. It seemed so far down and I felt faint as I stared down. Sweat was trickling down my back and I couldn’t feel my hands or feet. I took a deep shuddering breath.

“ Are you ok ? “ the man securing my harness asked.

“ I looked back at him. “ Y...

I stare at myself in the mirror. The cold water I splashed my hot face sent a cool shiver down my spine. My breathing was gradually slowing diwn as I started to think straight, and memories of what just happened flashed in front of my eyes. Fists. Blood. Screaming. An empty bittle of Brandy. Glass everywhere. Then silence.

I’m violently shaking as I come back to reality and I realised what I have...

I walked up the path

Made from stone and rock

Breathing in the scent of moss and rain

Small wooden houses reared up on the hill

Several chimneys lit up with smoke

Breathing in the scent of fire and forest

I saw a man pushing a wheelbarrow

Filled to the brim with wood

He looked at me and greeted me, then said

Just a little village, nothing to see here

And then he was gone....

I’ve been running away from this for months. I’m the daughter of this city’s most wanted man, and ever since he died, they moved on to hunting me. My father died this year from cancer, or so the doctors say; I’m not sure I believe them, Dad had a lot of secrets that no one knew of.

The first time I realised that I was the new target was right after he died. I went home from the hospital and saw ...

We might never escape. And it’s all his fault. I told him to fill up the car bacause it would be a long drive; the desert is hot and we know nothing about it. But did he listen to me ? No, he didn’t. And why didn’t he ? I really don’t know. But let me tell you how we got here.

I’ve been planning this trip for months, I absolutely love road trips. I asked my brother, Josh, if he wanted to join me,...

Ben was in the library no one really went to, he needed a book for his biology class. He also liked to clear his mind there. He missed his friends, especially Sam an and Emma. College was also a lot to think about, the tests were hard and put a lot of pressure on him. Janice, the old librarien kept a constant chatter as she scanned in the book, telling him about her nephew’s new hobby and then jum...

Vessels churning with blood

Organs beaming with life

I sit in the left corner

The key part to this puzzle

The reason every organ works

Without me it all falls apart

A beautiful symphony

All because of me

Everything because I beat

With every one I pump in more life

A single blow could make me stop

The system falls apart

But with a single shock, I’m brought back

Beating like a drum

I am th...

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I feel the darkness rather than seeing it; closing in on me like a blanket as I get dragged down deck by the one with the wooden leg. I am thrust to the left after hearing the clank of a lock, and I fall down to the dusty, wooden floor, a splinter digging into my palm.

I lay there listening to the pirates talk to one another, hearing snippets of different conversations. “ Oi ! Throw me that rop...