I felt a crushing weight on my chest, like a sorcerer’s cast-iron cauldron impressed on my rib cage. Disoriented in mind and body, I wondered how my survival was even possible. The most I remembered was boarding the plane- had we crashed? Was this all a dream? I forced a painful inhale- but something restricted me- a hitman- I thought- pulling his belt in a noose around my neck. My torso felt lead...

Now every coming day neo wished to see the surface again, to experience the warmth of the light shining down on the water. He noticed that the deeper he got in the sea, the sadder, and less energetic the people around him became. He couldn’t help but think that even though he had been separated from it his entire life, the place above was where he was supposed to be....

He felt a wave of cold rush over his body, and as his senses came back he felt a subtle tingling sensation on the back of his neck. He felt as if he were weightless, suspended in empty space with no sensory stimulation whatsoever. As he blinked to regain consciousness he began to see the faint outline of a figure about two arms lengths away from him. The figure was a young girl, with dark ,long h...

Even over all of the screams and screeches of shoes on the school hallways, Bret could hear the rythmic thumping of his heart beat. He remembered all of the drills that his class went over to prepare for shootings like this, but it seemed as if all of that had been forgotten in the sea of terror and confusion that surrounded him....

Jen had never had to rely on her senses more. Running through the dark, crowded woods without her sight had forced her to rely heavier on her sense of touch and sound more. The seemingly endless void of branches and fog seemed to go on forever. Suddenly, something caught her attention. In the distance to her side, she saw two glimmering dots of light, each of them a bright blood red with slits of ...