“You saved her!”

“Excuse me?” I question, extremely confused. “I didn’t save her, the other girl did…” I realize the other girl had fled the scene right after she performed CPR on the drowning girl.

Shoot. Now the police are arriving and they’ll obviously think I saved her. When I’m the one to push her in the lake. Not to kill her, of course. I thought she could swim. Shoot. I’ll have to agree w...

I am not a hero in this story

I am merely a bystander

One who saw it all,

Understood it all

But did nothing

I know the cost of silence

How much pain it may cause

But I now find myself

Rewarded for my cowardness?

I don’t deserve praise

I deserve a moment to tell the truth

A moment of real justice

So the dark can come to the light

Stand before the jury

And receive its verdict....

It had been two weeks since Eliza had failed all five of her midterm exams. She had been the straight A girl all her life, the one who never got anything under 90%. What happened to her? It had been the pressure. It had crushed her and broken her instead of turning her into a diamond like her parents always told her.

So who could blame Eliza when she took the credit owed to Billy Jean? He wouldn'...

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Her (Magnolia Elks)

“Avada Kedavra!” Green light exploded above her, the noise of the males voice blocking out her screams.

(Hour Earlier)

“Come on Mag. We don’t need to go looking for trouble outside of hogsmead” Archer buried her face in her hands with a groan.

Archer was only an inch or two taller then Magnolia, or Mag as her friends called her.

Yet instead of Mag’s long b...

“No one is angry with you Nicholas. You’re the hero. Your phone call tip stopped the Simpson boy from shooting up the Thanksgiving Day parade. We just need to know how you knew,” Det. Lou Pallas said.

What if this kid was in on the shooting plot? He’s another loner. Another bullied weirdo. How do we know this kid didn’t turn in his partner? Pallas thought.

Nicholas grimaced sensing the cop’s m...

It was the middle of the day.

The principal put on announcements and said , “There was a person who stayed after lunch and picked up the trash on the ground.

That person seems to be….Victor Gray! Please come down to the office to get your reward.”

I was shocked and I know I didn’t clean up trash after lunch.

People turned their gaze towards me and Josh raised his eyebrows.

Josh is my best fri...

I can feel you

When the clock says 11:11

And I make a wish

I can feel you

When I’m speeding over railroad tracks

And my car flies off the ground

I can feel you

When I’m listening to a powerful song

And the goosebumps race all down my arms

I can feel you

When my cat is purring on my stomach

And she decides to knead biscuits on my chest

I can feel you

When I take a deep breath

And let a guided medit...

It all started when I arrived to school late. It was a late morning and I missed the bus I usually take. When I made it into the school building I ran into my home room covered in sweat and panting. “Where were you?” My teacher asked. “Sorry, I had to do something” I answered vaguely as not to raise any suspicion. “THUD” the door slammed open when I finally made it to the desk. “Everybody come out...

I walk down the hallway heading towards my AP Biology class when someone to my right says “Congrats dude, you’re being mentioned everywhere for saving the policeman that was about to be shot. I’m surprised you weren’t!”

“That wasn’t me!”

“Come on, you’re just messing around!”

“No, I’m being serious it wasn’t me!”

The intercom speakers crackle with the start of an announcer: “Can Mark Bonez come d...

“SCHOOL SHOOTER!” They all had yelled.

But only I knew that it wasn’t that....