Cool rays from the full moon shower through an earthen opening sweeping across the damp glistening cave floor with the passage of night. Each corner of every jutting rock is illuminated by the cosmic light for minutes at a time, providing ample energy for the peculiar caven foliage to flourish. A flora dominated by a dynamic flower, both in beauty and action, indigenously named Vernesia. The Verne...

“Time to wake up, son. We’re here,” my father said as he wrestled the rusty shifter into the faded red P.

With my eyes still closed, I stretched my arms, half expecting to accidentally hit him in the face, but he was already gone.

“Hey!” I called, rushing to catch up with him. I jumped down to the soft earth of the lakeshore, cushioning my landing just enough to keep me upright. My legs were tin...

“-and you wonder why I cant stand you anymore! How about you fu-” my mother paused. She was on constant high alert ever since my father hit her and this time was no different. Despite my best efforts to slowly open the door, right before that one spot which makes that god awful noise, somehow she heard me. The all to common feeling of sorrow, terror, and oddly embarrassment, begin to set in as she...

‘-cant believe I was so-‘ Johns mind grinds to a halt. He cant seem to recall what he was just thinking about. As elegant as it was frustrating that thought disappeared. Come to think of it John had no idea where he was exactly. He scans the room from his left, already disgusted by the various images of dismembered bodys placed proudly on each wall, he notices a sticky note clinging to his bedside...