Allison Berry

I’m a beginner who’s taken an interest in creative writing and reading other’s work as well. I love the fantasy and sci-fi genres, and I think haikus are awesome. I’m looking for feedback on how I can improve, so I’d appreciate any I can get!

Allison Berry

Snail Shells

Allison Berry

2 min read

My eyes snap open. I’m backstage, but something’s off. The curtains are a deep velvet, not the cheap, thinner kind that I’d grown accustomed to.

The backstage is filled with staff shuffling around nervously; I don’t recognize any one of them. Among the crowd, one man approaches me, clipboard in hand. “Mr. Blake, are you ready to go on?”

“Mr. Blake?” I think to myself. “He couldn’t possibly mean ...

Adieu

Allison Berry

1 min read

I wish I had never let go.

Your warm smile

Your bright eyes

The way you held me

When I cried

Your loyalty

To me

To your country

When duty called,

I said goodbye

When I should’ve been there

By your side

Now all I have to remember you

Is this envelope inscribed:

“I’m so sorry, my dear,”

“I must bid you adieu.”

“May meet again sometime soon.”...

Poetry

Slayer

Allison Berry

1 min read

I am still haunted by that night.

Whenever I close my eyes, I see my home burning in bright crimson flame.

I wake up late at night to my sister’s pained shrieks.

The sweetest aromas only smell of burning flesh and carnage now.

With each break I take, I taste the choking, black smog that surrounded me.

The shining sun just reminds me that I must hide my grey, scarred body under layers of well-...

Fantasy

Action & adventure

Dee’s Story

Allison Berry

1 min read

Okay, okay okay. So here’s how it all went down.

I was just replacing some hydraulic pipes in heating system, right? Can’t have have everyone freezing to death. Not pretty. Difficult to clean up.

But then, then then then, one of the pipes exploded! Heating fluids sprayed everywhere! The force nearly knocked the whole shuttle over!

So, so I had to go get some new pipes and heating fluids, right?...

Science fiction

Humour

Lily and Spot

Allison Berry

1 min read

Lily lives in a little house in a quiet town. She likes to play inside, she likes to play outside. But what Lily likes most of all, is to watch her pet goldfish, Spot.

Spot has a little spot on his eye, and a long, flowery tail. He loves to swim! He swims in his tank all day. Lily loves watching Spot. Even though he swims the same way every day, it’s never boring for Lily.

She would imagine hers...

At the Park Today

Allison Berry

1 min read

At the park today

I saw something strange

Skeleton children played

Pirates fished by the bay

Zombie dogs played fetch

While goblins played catch

Oh, what did I see that was so odd?

A human family, together on the sod!

The sight was quite strange!

At the park that day....

Poetry

Suffering of the Scourged

Allison Berry

1 min read

The stench of decay and death fill the air. Pitch black birds fill the lifeless trees, anxiously awaiting the next feast.

The village is abandoned; no one remains alive. The market sells death; the doctor congratulates you on your failing health; the inn becomes your place of rest.

It was such a happy little village before the Scourge came; everyone dealt kindly with one another, assisting the p...

Fantasy

Horror

Let Go

Allison Berry

1 min read

Quinn pulled her legs back and kicked them back out on the swing. She could feel her burdens lifting with each creak the old swing set made.

Yet, she felt as though she was trapped.

“After everything that has happened, are things still within my control?”, Quinn mused.

She felt like jumping off the old swing set as she did as a young girl, to see how far she’d go.

If jumping off was the only w...

Action & adventure

Greatest Discovery?

Allison Berry

1 min read

Men are gathered by the hundreds to unearth the greatest discovery that the world has ever seen: a downed spacecraft.

“So…they finally found it. They were certainly slow about it.” A tall, thin creature clothed in white turns to a massive crowd of aliens gathered around a large monitor displaying the scene.

“Pfft! Told ya! You give those saps too much credit! Pay up!” A short, plump alien with a...

Science fiction

Humour

Raincoat

Allison Berry

1 min read

Little hooded head

Rain taps tight woven poplin,

Then the drops roll down...