I freeze staring down at my arm. Wires poking out of the fresh cut, electricity crackling between the ones that were cut. I tried to move my hand but it was stuck in place, somehow I severed the wires that let me move my hand. What am I, and why do I have wires beneath my skin. Am I one of the androids that people talk about all the time? The human like robots that scientists have forced to live a...

Well, this is certainly the most realistic dream I’ve had in a while.

When I look down at my arm, it’s like watching that movie - what’s it called? The one with the robot. And he’s sent back in time. He’s a time-travelling assassin robot. Except maybe not, because didn’t he die in the end?

That’s a terrible example, never mind.

This has to be a dream, though, it’s simply not possible for al...

You open your mouth. At first, no sound comes out - just increasingly rapid breaths. Finally you find your voice, and your own scream shocks your ears: "Mom!"

The back door slams open and she comes out on the porch. Your eyes are stuck on your own arm, at the garden shears on the ground beneath it, at the chunk you took out of your own body - at the red and blue wires poking out of the hole.

"Oh...

One day I cut myself deeply, but instead of flesh and blood, I saw wires. I had surgery on my left arm, because I broke it after a fall. It healed quick and worked great. But……wires!!! Next thing I knew I heard, “Beep Beep Swish Swoop Swish. Beep Beep.” Then I fell unconscious....

I thought back, it was all that I could do. There had been that hiss of a slight bang and boom. Their bowed heads and closed eyes. They were gone in a flash. All of them. No exception but me. I wondered how I had survived and everything else around me. Well except for the birds and the fish, the cats and dogs that used to wag their tails—-for love and a pat or a demand for tuna on a dish. Even th...

Ow!

Wait what?

I stared in disbelief at my own cut.

Blood didn’t flow out but, I saw something metallic shining back at me.

no, this doesn’t quite make sense.

Hey you, I’m a human right!?

Oh tell me I am!

I’m scared not to be....

I’ve lived so many years in fear, I can hardly remember a time without.

I know such a time existed, however. My father did his best to protect me. Unfortunately for me now, that protection came in the form of ignorance. I didn’t even know he was trying to protect me, because I didn’t know there was anything I needed to be protected from.

We had no television. All the books in the house were care...

Running.

Running, running, running.

My heart was pounding so hard in my chest I thought it might explode. My legs were burning, but I just had to keep them moving. Faster, faster, faster. My lungs were threatening to burst, I could barely get in air, I could barely see, I could barely think. Black spots were beginning to cloud my vision.

But I couldn’t outrun them forever.

Two burly men with...

“I’m sick and tired of feeling like this, the feeling of being alone, just being okay and desperate to breathe again. I’m going to end it, I’m going to end it now,” says Anne

Anne walked into the bathroom, took her clothes off, and proceeded to run her warm bath water, naked she walked into the kitchen and grabbed the sharpest knife, her favorite knife and the knife she knew that would get the jo...

“Zane!”

I could distantly hear my name, almost as though it was far away. I wrenched my eyes open, my vision hazy and my mind foggy as I tried to bring myself out of the darkness I was in.

I saw flashes of blue and red, colors starting to become clear as I rubbed a hand against my eyes, the digits digging into my sockets.

I was finally able to concentrate on the voices, the cacophony of sounds...