“I want to tell you something Joseph! Can you please let me get the words out!?” I sputtered while staring menacingly into those pale blue eyes of his.
“What Cher?!.. what could it possibly be now? I swear you never give it a f-“
“I love you.”
Silence.. so very deafening I thought my ear drums would cave in on itself.
“Listen to me when I say.. I love you.”
He didn’t blink and my mind tried d...
It had been 5 years, 11 months and 32 days since me and my crew set off for mars. I never would have considered those years of being confined to a spaceship would bring me here. It takes a kind of person to go without seeing their family for long periods of time, I wasn’t one of them. Each day I was edging closer to insanity than I would have hoped, I guess that’s what you sign up for though. When...
A man with shaggy brunette hair and big blue eyes paddled desperately along the sickly green coloured river. It was an anomaly how he had such light eyes when he looked half dead. It wasn’t clear what he was running away from, perhaps himself. A pent up vulnerability bubbled up in his eyes, his face not revealing his emotions.
The river soon fell into a long winding waterfall, as the current pus...
Entry one Jane Steinbeck
I walked into the grocery store, just the way everyone else did, calm and collected. I wandered over to the dog food section, making sure to pick out the beef packets my dog adored so dearly. Like a natural reaction the woman beside me clutched her shiny black purse, her forehead wrinkles deep and her braids tight. In the corner of my eye I spotted ...
Her hands were clammy, her skin raw.
I stood there, exasperated, engulfed in awe.
She said the ground was shaking,
the moment I was waking.
Yet it was still, and my coffee was not shaking.
‘Go back to bed’ I murmured, for she was always playing tricks. Death by ignorance, wasn’t something on my bucket list.
Now my hand traced her unresponsive face,
blood was flowing down to her waist.
T...
