Her tears fell in ravenous storms, blurring the ground with a dying ache. Clear rivers mixed with tanged, bitter blood- yet it looked so tantalizing still. It was marvelous, yet a horrifying scene that I wished I would never lay my eyes on again. It was good, yet bad all the same. In my mind, I couldn’t help but wonder how it had come to be this way. What had provoked our end, what about our begin...

### **The Locket**

#### **Epilogue**

Samantha clutches the silver locket in her palm, the metal cool and soothing against her trembling fingers. Her eyes, red and swollen from crying, fixate on the little heart-shaped piece as if it holds all the answers she’s been searching for. She knows she must let go, but her heart isn’t ready yet. With a deep, shaky breath, she places the locket back in th...

This story will unfold in backwards order. The author will publish words that they deliberated over but ultimately accepted because what word choice could be better than their own? The words that come from books, and teaching moments, and experiences with outhers. The carelessness and haste that they were initially written with, just trying to reach some arbitrary word count goal. The product of a...

the day ended happy

With pink and red hearts

Friends gathered

Chilling with pizza

Talking about their lives

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This is definitely not my best work, but I tried thats what counts. Anyway I hope everyone has a good day today! I’m going to be hanging out with some of my friends today so YAY! And my brain is blank now sooo byeee...

Liliana Watson’s cold body was found in her bedroom.

The twenty year old lived with her family, but they were away overnight for her sister’s surgery. She was home alone.

A ring of ligature marks adorned her neck. The ultimate cause of death was asphyxiation.

Her body had bruises. Dark purple and black. Her fingernails had blood and skin underneath them. She fought back before her demise.

T...

I sigh in defeat.

I’m never going to figure this out. Not like this. Notes with big erasure marks and crossing out in front of me.

I need to do this for James.

Closing my eyes, I walk through my memories of that day. The day my best friend died.

OoOoO

I left the party around 10:20 pm. I know that since my curfew was 11 and Bobby’s house was about 30 minutes away from mine.

So whoever kid...

“I’m sorry for killing you,” I said on my deathbed, the hospital’s heart rate monitor beeping steadily like a timer counting these final seconds.

“Don’t say that.” Leif chuckled and shook her head dismissively. “Think of it more like… I’ve lived through you.”

I smiled tenderly, feeling her presence with me. Then I suddenly felt a wave of exhaustion. I didn’t fight it, but I felt terrified. Even ...

The two fell hard on the dry grass, breathe knocked out of them.

“Did we……did we make it?” Charlotte panted

“I…..i think so….” Casper gazed at the

night sky, lined with an array of stars. All the running made every inch of him sore.

“And……the witch died?”

“Maybe?” He wheezed, “I mean….there was a….whole tower crumbling down at her….”

“Huh?”

Casper remained where he was. On the ground.

...

Kinda the prompt kinda not

Read it backwards

Foreard kinda makes sense but kinda does’nt

“Im coming mom”

I take the step

The river is far below me

She was my constant and now…

I can’t live without her

I stand on the edge of a parapit

It should have been someone else

She was the kindest most loving person I knew

Its not fair.

I watch her slowly die, the only person who was there for me

I...

In the end, we all die

In the beginning, wings to fly

In the middle, muddle around

It is what it is, lost and found...