Mara has this crazy look on her face and is ranting on about the end of the world; and how we need to make sure we are saved. I inquire “What’s gotten into you, why do you care?”. With this she rolls her eyes in frustration and tells me that I just don’t understand. I just shrug and head out to the garage to escape the discussion, “Don’t turn your back on me.” she yells at me. I decide to to ignor...

**KATYLID**

Katylid stood in a dark corner in the

Underground council meeting, eyes searching as the members sat down, chatting with each other until the Sector Leader, General, came. No one cast her any glances. They were used to her avoiding behavior.

Quick Lips, Hare, and Queen were sitting in a the left corner of the large steel table. Quick Lips and Hare were playing some kind of card game...

My partner and I had relationship problems in our marriage like all marriages they all have their ups and downs, but this one was more serious as she wasn’t an alcoholic

She always felt the touch from the parents as they both divorced. One of them died and felt miserable all our life.

Then decided to join alcohol self-help group house in alocal place place

One day, I noticed that she was wit...

Oh no

The snow

Not me

Gotta flee

Come with me

Please let’s leave

Open your eyes

I’ve got to try

In the end

Must defend

Your own soul

I must go...

I shiver as I draw my sweater closer around my shoulders. It’s a warm night, but is it really? All these months I thought I knew him. I thought I knew myself. It turns out to be an illusion of what I wanted. I find myself walking faster down the sidewalk. The nighttime sprinklers kick on and part of the access water finds its way into the cracks of the concrete. Kind of like how Tommy filled in th...

Hey Babe, it’s me. Please, please come home soon… I miss you so much.

Love you forever and always,

Jhos

Hey… sorry it’s been so long. My boss had to keep me longer than I thought to get the big project done. I know, I know, the curiosity is killing you. I wish I could tell you, but they’re all but sworn us to secrecy. It’s huge, and I know you’ll understand in time.

Love you back,

Heli

Wow, it s...

“I thought you loved grapes?”

“What? I’ve never liked grapes or said I liked grapes.”

“You used to eat grapes all the time when we first met. Look at this photo.”

He slid over his phone, and it showed a picture of her relaxing in the beach next to a bowl of grapes. She was even eating a grape in the photo.

“What? That’s so weird. I remember that trip and photo distinctly, but I have zero ...

(I wanted to switch the prompt around a little)

I had been hiding it for six years. I had been hiding since I was eleven, but it was even harder to hide something from the man you love.

I had faked a job as a surgeon, and I did work at a hospital. It was the excuse for the long nights away, the constant flow of money, and the blood under my fingernails.

I just had to keep hiding....

Darryl came in to the living room, the clock hit 3 AM the exact momento Alissa turned around on her chair.

"Well?" - She said looking into Darryl with a fierce look in her eyes.

"Darling," - Darryl said with a huge smile, "you won't believe the day I had, you remember my new boss? Ramy?"

"What about him?" - She coldly replied.

"We went out for a few drinks and he is like, amazing, he has such an i...

My husband had been in a rut and made redundant after the company he worked for liquidated. He was desperate for work and whilst dining at a bakery was approached by one of the staff and offered him a job.

When he told me, I was delighted that he was delighted. He was on the brink of giving up hope but this bakery gave him that glimmer back.

When he told me that his colleagues met every Sund...