Sitting in the boat, on a peaceful afternoon

Unknown to me, a shadow slinks underneath

The light catches just right

To reveal it to my eyes

The reaction is immediate

Heart pounding, blood rushing in my ears

Everything else is drowned out

I’m numb, I’m blind, I can’t feel

Everything is dark

As I grope at the wall

For a door, for a window

For a light switch, anything at all

People’s voices echo a...

Jim’s last novel was a bust. It was a harrowing tale of humanity venturing to other realities to acquire the answers to solve the world’s problems and the vast underworld that thrives from it. His main character, Silver, was a man stuck between two realities because both of his parents were from differing ones which in turn gave him great power. Power that wasn’t fully explained in Jim’s self-publ...

Just sending me alone on a boat. What could go wrong?

Sam sighed as the soft waves rocked his boat and slowly made its way to shore.

At the shore was Mattheo, who sent him on the adventure to “lighten the mood.”

Or to desert him.

Sam hates the ocean, so he screamed the moment a dark shadow appeared from under the boat.

”BLOODY HELL! MATTHEO! MATTHEO!” he screeched.

”Huh?” Mattheo said, barel...

Underneath the ocean at night slowly going farther down. This was the job of a scientist

To discover the unknown but to be honest I wasn’t prepared. I was only an intern student who won a trip to the bottom of the ocean with dr. Adam “we are almost out of the twilight zone if you want to look out the window miss Ambers.”

“Thank you doctor,.” Amber said then looked out a side window and saw a va...

The waves finally calmed down to the point I could see the bottom of the sea or rather more of the bottom. I had spent well what seemed like only mere minutes out here on the water but was probably hours waiting for the sea to calm down. My boat had gotten a hole in it from all the previous waves but it didn’t matter anyway. I came out here to well surrond myself in endless scenery of the sea for ...

“I don’t know how I can okay!” Fluffy shouted. “I just did it one day and I never knew how!”

Arashi backed away. “Okay, you don’t have to freak out. Geez.”

Fluffy wiped her face. “I’m sorry, I just don’t act well under pressure and get emotional a lot. Sometimes over the stupidest things.”

Arashi sighed. “It’s fine. I do that too. But very little. Like very, very little. I still do it though.”

...

The bars shook loudly. Lightning and thunder boomed outside the building. Other inmates were screaming. But one wasn’t. She just sat with her chains on the stone bench at the back of her cell.

“Perfect.” She snapped once.

White light blinded those who stared. Her chains broke. And once the light disappeared, the cell door fell down. She calmly stepped out of the cell and down through the hall.

...

By Dean Martin

The singer’s name couldn’t all fit in the title since the song name is so long.

Suggested by A Canvas Torn

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Eilem grabbed Orla’s hand and pulled her in. He kissed her and she returned it.

His father then stepped in the door. “Ain’t that a kick in the head?”

“I don’t think so.” Eilem replied.

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The dark room was the perfect cover. Eilem hugged Orla and she hugged back.

H...

Wood creaked against the calm ripples of the ocean below, no map nor gps, just a paddle and a wish on the wind.

A wish to see them again…

Dead centre, the middle of nowhere, no sounds beside the soft wind and no sign of anything above or below, no chirps of dolphins or blowholes and no squawks of birds.

But waiting there for who I had hoped to meet once more, a shadow deepened the vast ocean be...

I slowly open my eyes everything is a blur the gentle rocking of the boat and the smell of the sea brings me back to the moment I sat up in the small wooden boat and looked around the only light is coming from an oil lantern I put out the light and anchor the boat then I look up to see millions of stars it felt strange being the only one out on the ocean surface then something caused me to look ba...