Step one. The glass doors are heavier than they looked. Age and disuse likely making them sticky. The hinges could use some attention. The freezing weather not doing them any favors either. The entry is at least warmish. The tile clean but discolored. The building is half abandoned. Through another set of doors at the end of the lobby, I can see what used to be a bank in another life. The ele...

“Identification, please.”

I fumble for my fake ID card, my hands so sweaty it slips out of my hand a couple times before I can yank it out of my too-small pocket. I’m wearing a business suit that makes me look like some kind of boss-woman. It’s extremely uncomfortable.

I press the card to the scanner, my heart beating so loud in my head I can hardly hear the approving beep. The doors slide open...

I take a deep breath, steady my nerves, and walk as confidently as I can toward the door at the end of the corridor.

Am I stupid for actually going through with this? A billionaire’s son just asked me to meet him in the closet to do who knows what.

It could be some crazy trap that will get me kicked out of my internship. For all I know HR is waiting in that closet ready to kick my ass out for s...

i have prepared for this. i’m ready. i wore my perfectly pressed, easy-to-move-in, navy blue pantsuit for this moment. i ate a good breakfast and only had one cup of coffee. i freshened up with a mint and have been sipping water just enough so that i don’t have to pee but my throat isn’t dry. i am ready.

i stand up from my chair in the university library and make my way to the fourth floor, the ...

1997

He was told to leave the hospital room after he passed out seeing the crowning. So he left, with Hesperia’s permission and encouraginement. The sight still made him feel sick—and that was coming from someone who had seen too much bloodshed in his dad’s organization.

He kept pacing along the floor, panicked, anxious thoughts running through his head. He was going to be a dad. He was hardl...

Like every weekday, Monday through Friday, I was on my way to my office in the Dune Rock condominium, the high-rise building I manage. As usual, I grabbed a strong cup of coffee to kick-start my day and met with my maintenance team to go over the day’s tasks. My wife, as always, was working in the office building next door in the accounting department. It felt like just another ordinary day.

“Hey...

Hailey Bell once believed anything was possible as long as you had an idea, some hope, a means to do it, and maybe just a little bit of some of the suspernatural. Here and there, that thought popped into her head. She waved it off, though, like it was never a phrase in the first place. Her mother used it frequently. After she died, however, Hailey decided to hide away from all things of her. It wa...

My goal was never to live forever, it was to create something that will.

I would be lucking if i live old enough to remember the bad days to appreciate the quiet boring days.

I postpone my demise for tomorrow...

Astor took a deep breath, begged her nerves to settle, and began walking towards the door at the end of the corridor.

Keeping her eyes aimed straight in front of her, the gray, authoritative door kept getting bigger, more intimidating, along with the voice in her head calling her a piece of shit....

My name is Anna and I’ve had a pretty harsh life, abused by my family, had a lot of my friends die. You know the usual jazz and all that. But everything changed when I got my power, in the middle of a fight with 7 guys that wanted to take revenge on me. I activated my power and killed them all in a flash. Oh silly me I forgot to tell you what my power is. My power is water control and mine is more...