Making friends with the ghost in your attic brings you many benefits as well as faults. For example, you always have someone to confide in without the fear of them spilling your secrets to someone else. After all, you’re the only one who sees them. The only problem is coming up with different excuses to go up to the attic everyday after school. It’s usually easy to convince my brother that the att...

When people say that time flies by quickly, they’re lying. It doesn’t. In fact if it was my choice, I’d make days a lot shorter. Because here, time flies by slowly. Here, wrapped in chains, time is never on our side.

Chains. Unbreakable, unbearable. They’re tied around our wrists and ankles, keeping us glued to the wired fence we’re forever stuck to. Or at least that’s what most of us believe...

Luna walked down the dark streets alone. She wasn’t scared in the slightest. With the power she held, she wasn’t afraid of anything anymore. Or anyone. The only ones who seemed to be the major concern were the OAE people tracking her every step and chasing her down. Whether they wanted the power all to themselves or needed for it to be gone by killing her, Luna did not want to know.

Flynn ...

I have seen many things in life. But this? This is beyond unbelievable. Surely I would’ve known if I had an identical twin. But I am the only child and the only manager in this building. No one should be allowed to sit in my desk, doing my work, imitating my style and borrowing my face. That woman right there? Not me. But when I look at her, it’s like I’m staring at a mirror. Staring at myself…

...

“We need to begin,” Charlie says. “Tonight.”

“Too risky,” Flynn replies and shakes his head. “Edith will see us before we even get close.”

“That’s only if we work slow,” Cody points out. “If we follow accordingly to our plan, the bombs will drop before the clock strikes midnight. After the smoke settles we’ll be long gone. Preferably with the moonstone.”

“You’re underestimating Edith’s...

When I was young, people would always tell me I would be a heartbreaker. I don’t think this is what they meant…

“You did not…” my brother’s voice trails off. He looks at the scenery with absolute horror. I would, too, if only I wasn’t in the middle of it. Me, standing in the treasured room with trophies, broken bits and shards on the ground around me of what used to be a glass heart sculptu...

It’s been over two days, and I’m still on the ground. Had I the strength to get up, I wouldn’t even know how.

Her smile was so precious, her laugh my favourite sound. But now that everything is gone, what is left to do now?

Her passing was sudden and so unexpected - the aftermath hit us all hard. But when I think of her gone, when I try to accept it, I feel my whole world fall apart.

Sh...

I find it strange how my brothers and I are so different, and yet related by blood. They say it’s difficult to get up in the morning, whereas I say it’s harder to sleep at night. They believe in order to blend in you need disguise, and I think all you really need is a crowd to lose yourself into. This way or that, we’ve tried everything. We always get away.

I don’t like to use the word “steal...

We have progressed into the Middle Ages, which allowed trades with different innovations. But with the trades follow the scams, and now I’m stuck with this useless piece of wood. I pick it up and examine it. This is not what I asked for. Does this look like a doll? The children in the alley will not approve of this.

But what can I do? I take a seat and set all of my tools neatly around my wor...

My royal blue blouse stood out between the black,

As the two men escort me down the hall.

I know where I’m going, I might not come back - but I am not shaken at all.

They lead me to a room with another young man, who seems to be the boss.

As I enter he motions to a chair with his hand, and I take a seat across.

“What brings you here, darling?” He asks with a grin.

I wordlessly glare into his ...