Julianne said goodnight to the same sunset each day. The orange beams laying across the horizon, dodged by the flock of birds dancing in the sky. And, she liked it. It was peaceful each night that she needed it to be, and it never let her down. For Julianne, moving to the lake had been hard. She missed the city where all of her friends lived, and this she did not know why. Unlike this sunset, her ...

A,

The clock strikes 12, and what do you know. As I write, it’s July 23rd, again. Happy birthday to us.

Just as you predicted, I lived on without you. I never thought I could, but I did. Maybe what drove me was your desperate want for me to do so.

They took over. The quartids invaded Earth 67 years ago, and we work for them now. Days get rough, and nights are never quiet. They toss...

“Jillian!” Maverick pleaded. “Jill!”

Jillian heard him, but she didn’t stop walking. She didn’t even turn around. She was tired of his fiddling with her, and she needed him to know she wasn’t putting up with it anymore. He constantly used her, and she hated it. She hated him.

The party was crowded. Jillian made her way through the many rooms, filled with smokers, couples, and drunk teena...

“Mother.”

Deloris hadn’t been home since it happened. The castle wasn’t the castle she had grown up in, for it was now dusted in the corners and any feeling of homeliness was torn from it. She and Mother sat in the dark dining room, nibbling at raspberry pastries and tea.

“Deloris.”

Mother looked tired. Deloris watched as she motioned her maid from the corner, asking for more tea a...

His hair was auburn, reminding her of the leaves changing with the autumn season. Her favorite season. His freckles dotted his face like speckles of paint on a canvas representing rain drops, only his were drops of sun. His eyes of green glistened in the light as they stared into hers, reminding her of the prettiest grass on a summer day, but not even that could describe the beauty of their hue. H...

The two were separated. He laughed gleefully with the ones he foolishly considered friends; slowly but surely losing himself to the cruelty of their time. She watched him from a distance, reminiscing in the faint sound of his voice saying her name; and secretly longing to hear it once more. Even still. Even as everyone thought the world of him, even as everyone cherished his name and purpose like ...

“I think I just met the happiest person in the world!”

She heard that a lot, from mostly anyone that approached her. She carried a smile for everyone around her and spread laughter like a contagious disease. Her book in one hand, coffee in the other, she was confident. She was the happiest person in the world, after all.

She goes from class to class, conversing and catching up with all o...

You would want to believe that I found her all those years ago. I didn’t.

Times were different now. I was different. She was gone, so how could I not be?

I live in the town of Terrowin. 184 years it had been since I last saw her. Since I last heard her voice. It felt like just yesterday sometimes, and other times she felt so distant from my brain that it was all a dream. I longed to wake...

The door was wide open when I pulled up the driveway. She hadn’t come back for months. I wondered why now?

Prissy and I were together for a long time. A lot can happen in 5 years, and a partner for that long would surely see it all. We broke up on and off, but for 5 years, I was undoubtedly hers. Prissy and Me. That wasn’t a question.

Priscilla was a gun, and I was the provider of the ...

“You better run!” Maven yelled as she chased Amy through the trees. Tag was a game they had played since they were little. “Wait up!” Quilt screamed, catching up to both of them as they sped. Quilt and Amy had been dating for months now, and they always let Maven tag along with them when she wanted. “You got me, you got me!” Amy stopped out of breathe, accepting her defeat. Maven chuckled as she c...