The lights were all off, but I knew this place like the back of my hand. And unfortunately for me, so did they.

“She’s over here!” a voice cried out.

I turned and jogged silently, running my hand along the left brick wall. It was my way of throwing them off.

“She knows this place too well,” a frustrated voice shouted. “We’ll never find her.”

I slipped into a small nook in the wall, folding mys...

The lights were off. I knew the place like the back of my hand, but unfortunately, they knew that as well.

I stood still, letting my eyes adjust to the darkness that had suddenly enveloped the room. The old warehouse had always been a second home to me—a labyrinth of forgotten crates and dust-covered memories, a place where I had spent countless hours exploring every nook and cranny as a kid. But...

The lights were all off, but that didn't stop me from finding my way. I knew this place like the back of my hand - and unfortunately for me, they knew that.

I felt their eyes on me as much as I felt the coarse wood under my bare feet, even though I could not see them through the darkness. I felt their intensity lurking in every corner, waiting to torment me.

It used to make me more afraid when ...

See I grew up with Tyler and Mike. Every time we travel, we stay in the dark so we hide. We hide because we were hunted, we were what humans call angels. We don’t come from God nor do we come from the Devil. We came from earth, the same way humans do.

Now we’re almost ready to go make the choice. The choice of above or low, good or evil you people call it.

Most of the time we stayed on the edge ...

I should have realized from the beginning that something was seriously wrong with me. Some part of myself was always aware of the other side — the darker side. However, anytime I told my parents there was a creature in my room the night before, they would wave it off and tell me that it was “just a nightmare” and I would “grow out of it.”

_I never grew out of it . . . _

From where I stand now,...

“Join me? I won’t ask again,” prince Raphael said. “You surprise me Tailor. I thought you too clever to bite the hand that feeds, but all mortals are stupid I suppose.”

Even wrapped in moonlight the royal bedchamber glimmered. He knew the palace like the back of his hand vMimeo had handsewn the coverlet ever mindful of his wife’s exquisite beadwork. Golden threads for a golden bed for a royal hea...

I moved silently, the familiar creaks of the floorboards underfoot barely whispering my presence. As I navigated the shadows of the sprawling old mansion, my mind raced through all the possible scenarios that could unfold tonight. They had always known I would come back; it was just a matter of when.

Reaching the main staircase, I paused, listening. The house seemed to hold its breath along with ...

Despite the darkness I find my way. Quickly pressing my fingers to the wall to feel the bends and turns, the difference in wallpaper as I got to the study, the frames in the hallway between the study and the dining room, the change to stark cold stone as I descended to the maid quarters.

All of these feelings familiar to me, after 18 years sightless and an unflinchingly rigid father I had to ...

They tell me I’m ill. I never questioned it until recently.

I live in a room with another man, Gary. He likes to rhyme words. I grow annoyed with his incessant need for similar sounds. Today, it was spray, may, lay, pray, gay—and if he would shut up, I’d be much happier. They let us into the common room, a short walk down the hall from where I sleep. Today, my jeans and buttoned flannel seem good...

The two of them.

It’s all I see

Past the mist

Past the lies

Past the layers of hate

I see them.

The two people who will always smile when they see me

The two people who would kill to save me.

The two are my best friends

Even if no one else can see them

I can

And that’s all that matters.

I love you Nico and will.

That’s the two of them.

Idc if they are fictional. They are all I’ve got left...