The girl stood at the end of the garden, staring at all the wondrous flowers and unique bushes that she’d never seen before.
She hummed herself a soft tune as she waited patiently, something in her mind almost knowing that someone would be showing up in her garden soon.
After a few moments she heard the sound of footsteps coming towards her and she turned to see her mother.
“Mama you’ve found m...
“We have to jump. What don’t you understand?”
My voice was harsh and strained as I tried to get my sister to understand that we didn’t have a choice.
“Why? Why must we jump? Why can’t we go home to mama and papa where we’re loved and safe?”
Her weak voice cut through the thick tension between us like a butter knife. She was in denial of what I saw as the truth.
“Because we are adopted and curs...
The man had just recently moved into his new house. He didn’t think anything of it when he checked the basement but that’s when he saw a box. Perhaps the previous owners forgot to grab it?
He walked over and read the top of it.
“For the future owner.”
He raised his eyebrow but decided to open it. He saw a little girls diary, it had a unicorn on it and was covered in glitter.
“Strange…”
The ma...
The man was always shunned for how he looked, because who’d want to be friends with someone who looked straight from The Nightmare before Christmas?
He wandered up and down the alleys with his umbrella, trying to find shelter from the constant rain. He would look up at the sky and wonder why the rain would never stop. Was the sky also shunning him or perhaps crying for him? He did not know.
He’...
She stood at hell’s gates for the first time, her thoughts on a speeding train, she was never able to focus on one solid thought.
As she was brought through the gates she could only imagine how bad she must’ve done in life to end up here.
What felt like an eternity to her had only been a few months, and when she got called back to the gates she seemed hesitant. She looked at the angel sent to br...
I reached for the flashlight that hung loosely from my belt, a pounding in my heart like no other. My thoughts were scattered and all I could hear was that repeated scraping sound…
It got closer and closer but sounded so far at the same time. Suddenly I heard it. I heard a scream, a scream so human-like I almost believed it was real, but this wasn’t the first time it’d screamed.
I switched on th...
