“You bitch!” I heard someone scream as I walked down the street. A pair of hands met with my back before I was shoved to the ground. “You ruined my life!” He shouted again as I rolled onto my back.

Even with his sunken eyes, his pale skin, and his frail body, I knew who he was.

“I helped you! You were about to die!” I yelled back, pushing up to my feet.

“Look at me now! Do I look like I’m heale...

I tried to focus on the sound of my shoes sprinting against the cement below my feet, staring out into the fog around me.

My heart was racing as I ran, trying to get away from the thing behind me. I could hear it breathing, growling, snarling.

I knew my attempt was useless, I couldn’t it run this thing. I had no clue where I was going, the fog made it impossible to see more than five feet in fro...

Time can take everything, I was used to it by now, yet I’ve had such trouble letting you go.

I’ve let go of pets, family members, my years as a kid, but you? You’re different. The place you hold inside my heart is stronger than anything I’ve felt.

But now, time has decided to take you from me.

You can’t stop it, you can run from it, so why fight it? It’s unreasonable to fight the looming thre...

I stared down at the water beneath me, my mind wandering to what I knew sat at the bottom of the lake.

The body of my sister.

I didn’t mean to kill her. It really was a simple accident. But she shouldn’t have shouted at me like that, not when I had that rock in my hand.

I swing the rock at her, not just once. I beat her and beat her until she was unrecognizable. She was nothing but a bloody pi...

A shiver racked my body as I pulled my knees closer to my chest.

“No one can know.” I told myself, rocking back and forth as a way of finding comfort. All my ears could listen to were the blaring sounds of machines cutting through the metal of my ship.

I brought my hands up to cover my ears, grinding my teeth together in a futile attempt to drown out the noise.

“They’re gonna find you…” I whim...