The sounds of monsters running behind me through the darkness made my stomach churn.
The leaves crunching and twigs breaking under heavy wild steps were the only things I could hear.
“You’re time is up, Better Run!” An eerily excited voice blared throughout the vicinity sending a shiver down my spine.
The thin sneakers I thought was a good idea to wear in the rain quickly sunk into the thick mu...
The sound of the shovel hitting dirt made my heartrate skyrocket. We’re so close to reaching the renowned piece.
“I can almost feel it!” My older brother calls out in excitement.
The atmosphere of the barren forest and the fear that was originally in my heart completely disappeared.
At first, the emptiness of the forest was extremely off-putting. The lack of life and the deadness of everything ...
How did I get here? This new fashion of life. When did everything become this way. I feel…. miserable here.
We thought everything would be better. They told us it would be and everything is, to them atleast. Life just isn’t the same for me.
Why am I the odd one out? This new world isn’t like the stories grandpa used to tell, Nothing like it at all.
There’s no bar fights and genuine woman like m...
Sweat drips from my eyebrows down my face. A loud bang sounds through your the alley as the door slams.
I rush off without hesitation with no regard to who saw me. My body shaken to its core.
Why? Why lie about something like that? Is it even true? No it can’t be I need to know.
A bright light shines in the corner of my eye. In an instant I drop to the floor scraping the skin off my elbow. The ...
Spending my thirtieth birthday alone. What a shock with the life I’ve lived. Success into failure over and over again. “Can it get any worse?” I whisper to myself walking out of a rundown bar on my street.
The streets beside me were overtaken by nature. All the buildings on this street look as if they were hit by a nuclear bomb, including my small apartment.
Cars rip and bump trying to get throu...
The wind whips against the windows as the lights flicker on and off. “Please stay inside,” The news reporter says before the power finally shuts down. The children cry creating even more chaos in the fray. The temperature steadily drops and the wind whips even harder until a small window behind the shelf the TV rests on bursts spilling in water. Panic sinks in as the only person close to an adult ...
The bright intense lights burn my eyes. “He’s awake!” A nurse shouts running from my room. The sensation of liquid pumping into my right arm sends my brain into panic but my body is unable to move. A swarm of cops and doctors flood the room. My speech was impeded by a large tube down my throat and a mask the size of my entire face pumping what I could only assume was oxygen into my lungs. Quickly,...
Regret washes over her as the feral wolves gain on her leaving nowhere to escape. She ran to the best of her ability still stunned by the acts that got her here. In the end, her kindness got to best of her. Jane, a very caring woman deceived by the cruel cold world. The wolves gained on her quickly due to the shoddy terrain. As she ran farther a small hut came into view. A quiet snap alerts the wo...
