I could tell that I said the wrong thing. You know that feeling, right, when it seems like you can’t go back to the way things were before you stick your foot in your mouth? Charlie was looking at me like I had really just punched her in the stomach, like she kind of hated me for being me, like she genuinely belied I was a fool.

But I had said it. I had brought up the subject of YOU, and Charlie...

**_SADIE

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Thomas Meers

Holland Smith

Adon Freeman

Jack Holt

I push the paper back to the chief after looking at the names and photos. “Why do these names sound so familiar?”

The chief leans back in the chair. “Because two of them were apart of the last case you contributed in.”

My eyes widen. “The Locomotive Dash and Smash? That was over 10 years ago!” I look at the photos again. “They ...

(From Fruits, Holland’s thought process; ⚠️Mentions of cannibalism⚠️)

I am the chef, the cook, the angel of death who comes to serve delicious plates of stew and vegetables to my love.

I see my work as a necessary part of Thomas’ life. My Tommy always hungers for more than the average human diet. He craves for the fruit of his kind, and I give it to him.

My parents don’t suspect anything. They’...

“You’d have to be an absolute fool to believe that!”

“It would help if you stopped saying that, mother. I know he loves me, he said so.”

Her mother snorted, attempting to find some humor from her daughter’s idiotic words in such a horrible time as this. “People say things they don’t mean, dear.”

“I know he meant it.”

“I thought that too about your father, and where is he now? That’s right. Off...

“What’s so wrong about it?” I ask, my older sister Sammy rolls her eyes. Pacing the porch of our house.

“I don’t know,” she pauses, her hands on her hips. “Maybe, Davian, it’s the fact that you’re the reason her Mom died.”

I feel like she slapped me across my cheek. Even though we’re a good yard apart. I know I was the reason the car crashed, but I keep thinking that maybe I can make her life ...

“you’d have to be an absolute fool to believe that!” my best friend ali says to me, looking at a text i got from my boyfriend.

the text reads, “i promise ill never leave.”

from both of our experience, that promise is never kept. by any man.

“i dont know, i have a good feeling about him” i said to her.

she laughed and we went on with our night.

as the relationship progressed, my good feeling st...

I crouch behind a rowan bush with Finn, my hand on his back pushing him to the ground, as close to the dirt as he is willing to get. His body is still and steady, but his heart is beating faster with each passing second—or perhaps it’s mine.

“Your aunt didn’t tell us what to do when we reached the trolls” I whisper in his ear, careful to avoid drawing attention. “And I don’t think they like human...

I used to have nightmares about monsters

Lying in bed, twisting and turning

The whole night sleepless and awake

I would wake up abruptly and scream

Terrified and shaking

While my parents lie naive in their beds

These constant nightmares

Turned into panic attacks

Leaving me breathless and agitated

Trapped and frighted

Scared out of my wits

Wondering if it would ever end

Flashbacks come and g...

I used to think it

Was

Too late for me

I used to think I

Would

Rot away without having lived a life

I used to think I’d

Die

Just as he had

I used to think I’d

Fall

And never get back up

But now…

If…

If I really think about this

It still hurts

I’m still in pain

But everything beautiful is in pain

Or at least,

Everything beautiful has been in pain at some point,

So I don’t need to be ok.

No o...

I spent years of my life living in the shadows of my big brother he was always the coolest guy I knew.

And everyone else loved him just as much as I did.

And when I say “did” I meant that

When I was about 15 my big brother went off to college we’d talk on the phone everyday.

One day I noticed I hadn’t talked to my brother

So I called and didn’t get an answer

Instead, I got the voicemail.

...