She was begging so hard the security had to escort her out. Her voice remained true, ringing in my head,

“Please, please, he’s got to be out there, just keep looking.”

That was Jonathan’s mother’s reaction to my decision to close the case. Two months with nothing turning up was enough time for me to realise it was a lost cause. Oh, right, I better give you the details?

It started 6 months ago, ...

The bell rang exactly on time, and the class errupted in smiles and laughter. I sighed happily to myself, packing my bag away as groups of people flooded out the door into the open hall. It’ll all be over soon.

As per usual, I was last to leave the class, but I liked it that way. I silently handed Mr Ronan a card, avoiding eye contact. I could tell he wanted to say something, maybe to reach out. ...

The staircase I stepped onto, I feared would cave in. The dark wood had grown furry mold, and seemed brittle.

I sighed in anguish. Of all people, why did it have to be me to go down into the basement. Maybe it was the funky smell, or pitch black darkness lurking at the bottom, but I absolutely hated the whole aura of that cellar.

I began to grow weary of carrying this massive cardboard boxes. ...

Never to be loved

Never to be touched

Never to be worshipped

Never to be treasured

Like a forgotten perfume

Scent sifting through air of millions

Memories are feeble paintings of the mind

Yet I wish I could find

Someone of oozing allure

Hands soft enough to melt me

Down to rose water

Romantic, cooling

Symbolic to a absent love

Of which unfound

Bruises of care

Fighting onto orry

Sex for m...

Your bedroom was a heaven

Tapes tumbling from shelves

Lights listening for a laugh;

Or a sob of agony

From within I opened out

Yes, held with shackles, but,

Like warmth in blood

Inseparable

Not a secret kept

Whispers forced of my soul

To offer of you, my heart

For mere malice to defy love,

On button to my cassette player

Mercifully making me sing

To mill me off

Please, wireman, release ...

The classroom was so silent you could hear a pin drop. The sound of a light breeze ran through it as the students waited absentmindedly for the teacher to return.

Most classes they would go nuts, let’s be honest. 3:3 was the most well-known class group in all the school ; and not for the right reasons.

To put into perspective for you, just last week Sam had a complete breakdown over a girl re...

The sound of screaming bounced off the sullen cave walls.

What was happening, I couldn’t stop thinking, or running. My head almost hurt with the rushing thoughts that filled it.

Suddenly, I was falling downwards, headfirst into the darkness. I was falling and I didn’t even realise. As I plummeted down, everything was silent. I had left the whole world behind me. I wasn’t scared. I was relieved...

The sun was rising over the horizon as I walked through the open fields. For some reason, the sheep were rowdy this morning. Maybe the thunder storm the week prior has still shaken them. None the less, they still frolicked through the grass as I sat, leaned against a large stone poking through the ground. This rock held so many memories.

I thought of when Jessie was only three, and we were playi...