**_This Afternoon_**

The moment I stepped through the gymnasium doors, I thought it was going to be like our last pep rally. Short and small, with the disgustingly loud rap music bursting through it all, along with cheerleaders and dancers basically dancing like grown women. (If you know what I mean.)

But then, as I sat down with my three friends, something shifted.

You see, I’m a freshman at m...

9am. Target.

You always end up here on Saturday morning don’t you.

Saying you’re going to the gym.

But the route you usually take was under construction so you had to go a different way.

Take a sharp left turn away from the interstate and toward the lattice of one way surface streets named after dead presidents.

Lincoln. Taft. Garfield. Taft again because the neighbors petitioned to chan...

“Hi, I’ll take a large caramel macchiato. Whole is fine. Thank you.” He hands over a 5 and walks to the end of the counter to wait for his order. Glancing around the small shop he notices it’s awfully empty. “Weird.” He thinks to himself. “I guess I came around a good time though. Beat the early morning crowd.”

After a few minutes his drink slides onto the counter. “Large macchiato!” With a smil...

There was once a town, an ordanary town. Or so everybody thought. One day a girl name Mary went to the market to get some bread. When she got there she saw her friend Margaret. So she asked Margaret if she wanted to hangout later. Margaret said”of course “.So later that day Margaret came over and she said “ I have an ideas go to the old creek and explore” Exploring was not Mary’s thing, but she sa...

Once there was a astronaut. He was in deep space. He touched

something purplish-blue. Suddenly he was moving very fast! He knew exactly where he was. In a wormhole....

I opened my eyes to a shadowy world that looked familiar but colder.

Not just in tempreture, but colour, too.

Leaves crunched under my worn-out leather boots as I began edging towards a glimmering beacon in the distance.

But as I tip-toed forward, the light got further away....

I jump with joy in my heart outside and close the car door with a boom, landing in a puddle with a splash. I take a deep breath and smell the rain, hearing the drops hit the ground. It has been raining all day, which is why we are going to the museum today. I have never been to a museum before. I have always preferred reading a book or watching a movie, as it gives me an escape from life. I feel l...

June squinted her eyes against the harsh sunlight cutting to her skull like tiny daggers. It had been at least an hour since she’d entered the abandoned house in the side of the hill. She’s been out exploring in the mountains near her home of western Virginia while her mother was out for lunch with a friend.

June lowered her blue eyes and notice a red beetle scurrying away from her bare feet. Sh...

Lately, time feels like it's fleeting. It’s always two steps ahead of you, gaining speed whenever you're close to riding its coattails. You move like a cat through the alleyways, taking a shortcut. You didn’t usually take shortcuts or walk in alleyways like a protagonist waiting to be robbed or murdered, but you were desperate and late. Already, you received two texts from your friend Susan, who w...

One time I was walking and I felt like I fell then it was back to normal then I got a headache then realized my skin was purple and I had an Australian accent then someone said “welcome to the second dimension called the worm hole city dome of plastic tea cups and chihuahuas of green city lactose intolerant pants!” I said “ok” then the dude said “ let me show you around the second dimension called...