I took one look and knew she was the only one for me. A warm smile graced her lips as she watched her friends joke around. One of them nudged her shoulder as they spread their hands apart exaggeratedly. A giggle escaped her, and my heart couldn’t help but flutter at the sound. She seemed so perfect no matter the setting surrounding her.

I first talked to her when we were at the neighborhood ...

My papers fled my grasp as the wind blew them into the air around me. I swore softly under my breath as I hurried to grab them. I didn’t have time for this. I gathered the pages carefully, all but one. I looked over, frowning to see a shoe covering it. I look up at the man that was on the phone, blabbing away to whoever was unfortunate enough to be on the receiving line.

“Excuse me? Could y...

Reyna could hear them calling for her again. The wind rustled the trees overhead. A soft buzz filled the back of her mind as she stepped further into the woods. A walkie-talkie crackled in her hands as she heard the small crunch of dried leaves and snow beneath her feet.

Instinctively, her body tensed as she looked up at the abrupt call of a crow flying above her. The black feathers stood o...

Nobody else believed your words as you happily told your friends about the tale. The man with the umbrella, oh not to keep the rain out but to assure that his top hat would not blow away through the wind.

He came on the weekends in the evenings of rainy days. You never asked but something about it felt odd. Perhaps it was easy for him to burn in the sun like a vampire. Maybe one day you wil...

It didn’t always use to be this quiet in the house on Willowberg Lane. The sound of laughter once echoed across the walls as Millie raced away from her mother. The woman would always be hot on her heels, a smile spread across her face as she promised she was going to catch her daughter. It doesn’t take much for things to change.

Millie wasn’t told what it was specifically. She assumed some he...