My breathing is heavy.

Unsteady.

I feel small,

Begging myself to not bawl.

Something in my chest coils around me,

And I can’t see.

My vision blurs

Something inside me stirs.

I reach

Feeling each…

Each wall

Each hall.

Each forestall.

Everything pressing in

Smashing into my skin.

I fall.

Needing to be small.

Curl up

Don’t look up

Don’t reach up

For the sun isn’t there.

For the people don’t care.

I ...

Does the sun get lonely

In the bright blue sky, the only.

It looks down on us bellow,

Not letting its feelings show.

The sun shines brightly,

Fading softly nightly,

Only to rise again,

Wondering when-

Will these men

Ever learn?

The sun stands alone,

The weight of time, a heavy stone,

Wandering the only path it’s ever known,

Across the sky it calls its own....

Sylia sat on her chair, legs crossed, staring out the window. It was rainy, quiet, peaceful… perfect for reading. People around her were doing just that, reading. She was meant to be supervising, simply making sure nothing got out of hand. What were they expecting to happen? Sylia chuckled to herself, they probably just needed her to shush people. Though, what if something else happened?

A cat got...

10 minutes before Alyssa’s life collapsed, a bus barreled down the road. It was filled with excited chatter, since the octopus’ had won their game. 

“Do you think we’ll be able to win the tournament?” Cadence asked, balancing a soccer ball in her hand. 

Niomi didn’t answer. She didn’t care if she won or not. As long as she got enough games in. As long as she scored goal after goal. That’s all she ...

I looked to Ruby, who was curled up on the ground. Crying. She’s always been so soft hearted. Too soft hearted.

I squat down next to her. “Get up.”

She whimpers. Of course. She’s too weak. I shove her. Ruby should have gotten up.

She’s just not worth it. She’s too traumatized to be useful. I take a step in the opposite direction, only pausing to give her another chance. She doesn’t take it.

I...

I ran like my life depended on it. On getting to the airport to be there the second she arrives. My legs pumped, and my heart pounded. I engulfed as much oxygen as my lungs could hold.

I could hear my mothers words in my head. “You could have saved up for a car,” she would say. “But instead you blew off all your money for that girl.”

Mother always hated Emily. From the moment she moved in across...

Can you hear me

Pounding on the walls

Can you hear me

Walking down the halls

Can you hear me

Screaming and screaming

Can you here me

Hopelessly dreaming

Do you listen when I talk

Do you hear my pounding walk

Or am I just a ghost

Listening to you boast

You are an arrogant man

With your plan

I thought you would have grown tired of me

With all my pleas

Yet you are still here

Holding me near

Do yo...