(Shoutout to Hollow Oaks! This is draft #12. Sequel to Deadly Assignment and Deadly Meeting.)

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“We need to write down as many details as possible from our stories,” Brielle commands, taking charge because someone has to. And none of them are stepping up.

“Why?” Anette asks, looking at her black painted nails, unimpressed.

Brielle takes a breath. She needs to stay calm and be confident. “I...

‼️ TW ‼️ ‼️SELF HARM‼️

I watched the flame of ember melt my skin as the blood from my knife tripled down my body.

1… 2… 3… 4…

I pulled the lighter away and stare at mark it left. I ignite the flames again and put it back to my skin.

1… 2… 3… 4…

I turn off the lighter and hide it under my mattress.

“Honey are you in there?” He says, his voice echoing in my head.

“I’m coming, one second.”

I stare...

My grandfather was a superstitious man. Any body ache meant rain was coming, and every new year he always included black-eyed peas and greens on his plate for good luck. As a child, he’d chastise me for playing while he swept the floor, saying if I don’t move, I’m gonna gain bad luck. On his deathbed, he asked to speak to me alone, claiming he needed to tell me something that he had dreamt the nig...

‘I should have known that meeting them would lead to something like this,’ Daniel thinks.

He was sitting across from his ex-boyfriend, Jerry, and they had decided to catch up that evening. Their relationship ended on good terms, it was a mutual decision to break up and Daniel didn’t regret it.

The evening started off well enough, with good food at a new restaurant they found and funny stories t...

They’ll never accept me.

Though, I suppose I don’t even accept myself.

Not yet at least.

“You have to stop doing that.” Rowan remarks shaking his head.

“Doing what?”

Rowan huffs,

“Thinking you’re not enough. You just need some training. Come.”

I reluctantly get off the rock I’m sitting on and follow Rowan through the thick foliage.

My sword lays heavy on my side, but it’s no use to me. I do...

Jane pushed against the current of people heading to work, holding two cups of coffee and her leather work bag. At this hour she would have been asleep, waiting for the seven o’clock alarm to ring. Instead, she headed towards the city library.

She had anticipated this day for weeks, and thought of it for all of the two years she corresponded with Archer V. Becket. The boy behind the papers th...

I was spending the day with my friends at the mall. It was three days until I would be meeting Draya’s “family” and my friends thought I needed a new “meet the family” outfit. I was as nervous as a person could get; I didn’t even know it was possible for a person to get this nervous without having a panic attack.

“We totally get it Sare Bear meeting the parents is the worst. make a bad first impr...

'I should have known that meeting them would lead to something like this. Now I am being pure pressured into doing drugs. I’m at a party that I never should’ve come to. I should’ve known better. But it’s too late now.

I managed to sneak away to make a phone call. I called Justin my brother. as soon as he picked up I said please I need to get out of here! Could you come get me? Or could you call m...

'I should have known that meeting them would lead to something like this,' Nahara growled, ducking behind the truck for cover. Bullets ricocheted across its cab - smashing the window in a maelstrom of glass and noise. Nahara had known when she first stepped foot on the dock that something was wrong. It was deathly quiet. When you arranged a meeting with the mob, they tended to grumble. But the doc...

I should have known that meeting them would lead to something like this.

It’s literally my job.

Look, I’m a seer, oracle, whatever you might call it. I see the future, I can read people’s fates and tell them their destinies.

I made a prophecy about your own.

To Asher and Emily, since I know that you’ll find us first, don’t worry. We aren’t dead.

My name is Eirlys, and the other one is Aerin. ...