Never, ever under any circumstances go outside at night. If your job requires it, quit. If your house is on fire, put it out or die. If you forgot to get groceries, go hungry. If your friends suggests it, dump them. If someone tries to drag you out the door, fight with every bone in your body. If you want to find love, you can’t. If you want some fresh air, just wait until morning. There is never ...

“Welcome to Valesin Library!” Announced Mr. Dun, who had noticed that a large crowd of unknown people had just arrived. He knew everyone in the town, as he was very old and the town was very small. The strangers also seemed to be a little more colourful than the townsfolk, both in their clothes and skin. Of course, Mr. Dun had seen both blue and purple skin on occasion, but green and red skin were...

I close the old green wooden door for the last time, saying goodbye to a place that doesn’t even look like the one I’m familiar with anymore.

Inside, our comfy couches have disappeared, leaving nothing but the cold hard carpet to sit on. Our crowded bench is no longer so, with my special coffee machine and toaster and all other things neatly packed in the back of my car. The walls are empty, whe...

Her outfit was supremely ravishing, gleaming, sparkling in the soft moonlight, out on the balcony of the hotel. She’d been beautiful the whole day and night, since she woke up this morning, though I hadn’t seen her until 3pm, standing at the other end of the aisle.

Her hair was uncharacteristically done up in a beautiful braid, but I prefer her like this, out of its ties and clips, and flowing l...

“I think I just met the happiest person in the world!” I called to my mum as I walked in the door, just having arrived home from school. “I’d love to be able to be as happy as that.”

“As happy as what?” Mum was skeptical, I could understand why.

“So happy that when she dropped a coin on the ground she didn’t even sigh! … or pick it up.”

“Is that right? It’s only one time though, that doesn’t ...

Waking up without a smile

Going to work without goodbye

Lovely meal without a compliment

Going to sleep without goodnight...

I’ve always been the funny one in the class, or so the laughter echoing around my classrooms on an near daily basis would tell me. Even my teacher thinks I’m hilarious, she doesn’t laugh but the look on her face reads “trying not to laugh” every time, and I love it.

I don’t understand why she can’t just give me a little giggle and get over it, it’s no big deal and doesn’t really take up as much ...

Obviously that could only mean he was right, but why had nothing happened until now? Why would someone spend a full 2 years following a kid, just to kidnap him? After two years of hearing the same old story and not believing a word of it, something finally happened to simultaneously prove his innocence and and remove someone else’s, but whose?

I’ve always known the follower as a man, but what di...