Why should I bother? he thought, eyes forward as the storm approached. The storm was a beautiful tragedy. Multiple twisters touched down on the desolate land. The sun was setting on the horizon, causing the dirt and sand to fill the twisters with a reddish coloring that almost looked like fire.

He stood atop a small cliffside, around 100 feet drop if he fell. It wouldn’t have caused much damage...

Never trust a survivor until you know what they did to survive. It’s a lesson I have been taught time and time again. Unfortunately, I am a bad learner. “Let’s get ready boys” Charles said “it’s time to get this job done.” “Hey Chuck I’m older than you. I ain’t no boy” Buck said. Charles just glared at him and said “Yeah well if you ain’t ready when it’s time to go we’re leaving you and taking yo...

This world is foreign and mystical, yet not to different than our world. Their is a strange magic in this world. The knowledge of magic and its works come from a floating city where the majority of upper ranked mages reside. Magic works on a “voluntary” sacrifice, they magic user requires that the sacrifices utters a specific phrase in clear wording for the desired result. So many young orphans ar...

Today is the day, knowing it is coming doesn’t make it hurt any less. The day we found out broke our hearts. Somehow the day we put you into the ground is even worse. I had never known I could love someone without meeting them.

One week earlier

“He is going to be coming any day now” Dakota said. “That’s true but I have barely been having any kind of cramps and they said I have barely start...