What do I see

Lights against the sky

Can you see me

What’s the reason why

Those lights are low

Very low not high

Darkness against glow

Look and we’ll try...

A lonely country road, rural Massachusetts. A normal day, a normal sky, a normal life. Jack was walking home from work at the local AMC it was 5:03PM. Jack hadn't eaten since 11:00 o'clock that morning his stomach was growing. He felt the pangs move through his body and thought of his mother's homemade mac and cheese that was waiting for him just a fifteen-minute walk away.

There was a cool summ...

Rhodes stops his car, peering out his open window. The night is cool and the breeze makes me draw my coat around my body like a warm hug. Something I haven’t had in a while.

“Cops up ahead,” he says, sighing. “Hide our stash.”

I grab the bundle from next to me and put it in the glove compartment. “Their lights are so bright.”

“They’re just making themselves known. Maybe a DUI stop. We’ll see...

It’s not the kind of thing you notice. It follows six car lengths behind. You’re driving to pick up prescriptions and secret candy because you are always getting prescriptions these days and you find yourself wondering why does everyone have on their high beams. People are jerks. You find yourself wondering when did it start getting so dark so quickly. Not realizing that it is you who are dimming....

PLEASE LISTEN TO SAFEWORD BY TV GIRL DURING THIS.

The party was loud, bustling through the whole house. Your voice had to go up _octaves_ to be heard as if you were whispering, and they loved it. They all did. It was all they wanted, for now. No matter what obstacle was at home, whatever trouble. They were safe in one of the most unsafe ways.

But it wasn’t _them._

It had been going on for hou...

In a neighborhood, more dangerous than most

A young woman roams.

Her awkward gate of feigned confidence

And slight tremble in her throat,

Is a clear sign of her discomfort

And unfortunately for her, everybody knows.

If it wasn’t her strut then it was her clothes.

The clothes shown on tv shows to represent these neighborhoods.

She wears old clothes slightly beat up believing that’s how it goes.

Bu...

Blue and red lights flash at the distance it is it the police . It blends into purple and It hovers in the mist it’s lights finding in multiple hues rays within the clouds. It was not human but something other weirdly not of this earth. It raced by only not a vehicle just the lights and glowing orbs. As I looked beyond the road and trees I felt it was a dream that it was the aurora fro a geomagne...

Flashing blue and red lights from a distance.

BOOM

CLACK

WHOOSH

I heard all of them at once. I look up in the gorgeous teal blue sky. The neighbors across the street hollored at their beers and clicked them together. I heard laughter and the bending of heads. The sun glowed, and it was almost liked it slowed down time. Turns out it was later than expected, around 6. The sky start...

My throat was quenching for thirst. Every swallow was dry and painful.

My head started to pound with agony.

I need water.

My steps turned slow as I dragged them through the forest.

From a distance, I could see bright blue and red lights flashing.

Hope.

I walked faster, trying to put behind my pain.

Closer and closer the lights grew brighter, yet I could not distinguish what they were from. ...

I felt like I had been walking this road without streetlights for eternity. I continued straight on my path into the darkness, when suddenly bursts of red and blue light flashed in front of me. I froze, looked in both directions frantically, and then heard the gunshots. I dove into the treeline to my right, snapped my eyes shut, and covered my ears with all the pressure of my palms.

My heart was ...