When the time comes

For you to leave your friendships

To ditch the toxic bitches

And say goodbye to unworthy people

When the time comes

For you to find yourself

And tell those people to fuck off

Because they’re not worth your time

When the time comes

To spill your heart out

Because you were in fear

Before

When the time comes

For this sun to set

And the moon of your heart to rise

It will rise ...

“When the time comes, be ready.”

I thought I would never be ready.

I thought I would always be terrified of death,

But I liked to ignore that fear with superhero fantasies

And short lived distractions.

“When the time comes, be ready.”

Be ready for what?

Be ready for anything?

I’ll never be ready for that.

Be ready for the end?

How could I be.

I can wish for death without being able to face it.

T...

It creeps up on you, he realised. This list of things that you have to live with. He didn’t just mean the long list of stuff that aches, hurts or doesn’t work, He thought also of the things that nobody cares about any more.

Nobody cares, for example, about what he once did for a living, why would they? How is any of it relevant to anybody? Even if he had once been the Prime Minister, who would re...

Time was a precious gift, a luxury that we did not have. I stared at my friend as he anxiously paced the small room. His blond hair was a disheveled mess, and his piercing blue eyes clutched a look of dire concentration.

"Callum, we're not making any progress... the Raiders will attack by nightfall, you know-"

"I know, Aedan." His tone was firm, even harsh. My breath stuck in my throat...

“When the time comes, be ready.”

That was the last thing Will had said to me before he disappeared 3 years ago. The memory blazed in my mind as I tried to breathe silently inside the dark closet. I had been too consumed with grief and loneliness to think about what he had meant. I bit my lip with shame. I had let him down, and I would pay the price for it.

I heard voices on the other side of t...

Dan clipped on his helmet.

His boss came up to him. “You ready?”

“As ready as I’ll ever be,” he replied.

“Good, because this is the final battle. You know what to do.”

“Uh huh.”

“Lead the enemy away from the general, stall them. Wait for the signal. Then advance. Defeat the big boss.”

“Got it.”

“You know the signal, right?”

“Yes. The firing of a gun.”

“Good, then.” His boss patted him on the shoul...

Danny closed his eyes and expected to feel the blast of a bullet. But instead, he heard Leonard scream in pain. Danny’s eyes flew open to see Leonard laying on the ground, blood flowing out of his chest.

“What the-?”, exclaimed Danny. He didn’t have a gun on him. And if he did, he wouldn’t fire. Him getting killed was all apart of the plan to land Leonard in jail.

“Don’t worry Daniel”, soothed ...

I awoke with a start. And sunlight flooded my eyes. I looked out the window to see an endless field of poppies instead of the expanse of space. Had they really landed without telling me?

I ripped myself from the bedsheets. But my heart squeezed just as I reached the hallway. I leaned against the wall not daring to make a sound. It wouldn’t do to show the others how sick I really was. The pain w...

Tatum was hunched over the bedside of her mother, who was coughing a lot and looked pale as snow. Tears were falling down Tatum’s face.

“Please mother,” she said. “Don’t leave me.”

“I’m getting more and more tired by the second,” she said. “I just want to sleep.”

“No,” Tatum said. “You’re the only one I have left. My older brother, Kobe, is far away in some place I don’t even know, and I har...

This is it

This is all there is

Everything is gone..

When I tell you this is the hardest thing you will ever experience, I am not kidding. So when the times comes, be ready.

Let me tell you what this is all about. You may think you’ve clicked on a little, silly story to keep my streak up, but no. Nope nope nope. Nien.

This is it

Everything’s gone

Hurry up! hurry up!

It’s almost dawn

Once ...