Jason ran down the slippery wooden boards of the pier, leading down to the wild, roaring river. The rain was pouring down, freezing cold, the kind that made your teeth chatter, drenching him to the skin, washing away the blood oozing from the gash on his cheek and the sweat soaking his clothes. Bang! The sound caused the boy's blood to freeze in his veins. He whipped his head around. They were sti...

It’s been years since I’d sat in a canoe to float down a river. Years since I’d honed the muscle memory that helped propel the boat effortlessly forward.

But here, in the dead of night, I used the stars and what little I could remember of the landscape to paddle myself down this river at breakneck speeds. I couldn’t let them catch me.

Hours ago I was minding my own business tending to the garden...

Over the water my strength gleams,

Paddles drop the water by streams,

Maybe the situation isn’t yet so well,

The condition will be better it seems,

Like a horse you’ve dreamt of saddling,

Better reconcile mate That Hard Paddling,

I recount in my body the soul fought hard,

It’s struggle though didn’t earn any shard,

I lost many artefacts I never wished to sell,

I still need something better to se...

I push and push against the water,

I push the boat forward, trying to hold her at the surface.

Boat and her—myself.

Where has it ever got me?

Monotonously pushing forward,

Well across the sea,

To the land of sun.

Yet I thought I’d reached the end—

The end of this chapter,

The chapter that never wants to be read again.

Yet I still push and push against the water,

I push the boat forward, trying to...

Panting with exertion, Sam plunged an oar into the murky, fast-flowing water below him. Icy droplets sprang up in response and landed on the tattered rucksack by his feet, almost like they were taunting him. _We know what you’ve done, and so do they._

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He stole a glance over his shoulder in an attempt to gauge how long he had. The small fleet of boats on the horizon, which were quickly closin...

Her smile lightens my Sun, her laugh dances in my dreams, her laugh; only a melody I cannot repeat...

_Dig and push, dig and push_. I repeat to myself in ragged breaths. Here I am, in a stranger’s beat up canoe held together by duct tape. The paddle is broken in half, but it will have to do.

_My head is pounding_. I paddle my way through the river desperately. _My arms are sore, and my head is pounding_. Blood rushes rapidly through my ears that I can hardly hear the shouts of my pursuers.

They...

The sun is starting to fall from view behind the tree line ahead, encasing the already much too difficult pursuit in which she’s found herself in darkness. Water rushes quickly on both sides, soaking her sleeves as she desperately tries to paddle her way through the current that threatens to take her under before the sun can set-

This, is Gabriela. And you may be wondering how she ended up in thi...

“Got to move fast, got to move fast!” Cried Jeb, just as he sneak out of the barn. His shirt all bloody up from the fast stabbing from his attackers. “Jesus Christ, I hope they don’t folllow me!” He spoke to himself, hearing screams of anger and shouting coming from the barn.

Jeb had just survived a home invasion for 3 days, the only family member from the “Cordell family” done in by the local bu...

Jack paddles as fast as he could, a stinging pain his forearm, shooting up through his bicep into the tops of his shoulders, he heaves and tries to steadily say “This would have been feckin’ easier if I dont lose that damn paddle.” As he continues to paddle, one hard wave hits the left side of his boat, slightly knock him leaning to the side, out of his right corner eye he eyes the darkly dressed ...