I don’t like this prompt so I’m just gonna write about why I don’t like it. Misunderstandings are usually just used by authors to create conflict they were too lazy to create in a genuine way. It’s some angsty teenage stuff and I hate it every time I see it in a story. I can understand it to a certain point, like how people find it hard to communicate their feelings and sometimes a situation is no...

The white walls of the room gave an artificial sense of isolation, periodically interrupted by nurses coming in to check vitals and replace her IV bag. It had been a few hours, Sierra guessed, since anyone had come in. The only sense of time she had was the level of the IV bag, it’s volume waning with each drip into Rose’s bloodstream. Sierra sat in the chair, counting each drop by the IV, occasio...

The wind sifted through the trees creating the familiar, earthly sound that normally would have made Rayne aware of the breath entering his lungs. The sound of the river flowing endlessly over logs and through debris would usually remind him of the water slipping through his toes, helping the fog leave his wakeful mind.

Today, though, the woods did none of those things

There wasn’t just a fog i...