High above the city I see everything. The birds: swooping low in a grouped formation, screaming there happiness and sorrows; the people: clustering and chatting, bustling around on there everyday lives; the seemingly endless row of buildings that stand tall and proud, with hundreds of windows, or hundreds of floors with different colours and warmth. Soft clouds floating in the sky. Ringing, happy ...

He stood in the corner of the street, watching. Always watching. The man with the skull, the man with the empty, bottomless eyes, the man with no soul. The locals always knew he was there, even when they couldn’t see him. The man drifted in and out of view, not always visible and not always discernible. But always there.

However, it was only if he spoke to you that you knew you were in trouble. T...

One by one, they were all taken.

It started on a bitter winter morning, the type that causes rasping coughs and miserable colds. Entering my classroom, there was 4 or 5 students missing- but that was expected. However, as the day went on, more and more kids were vanishing. It started of slowly, barely noticeable but by lunchtime, nearly half the class were gone. I continued to teach, unease fill...