I enter the doors to my high school, a senior. First day back to school and apparently I'm supposed to be shrieking and crying like an idiot, going, "Oh my God I haven't seen you since... two days ago!" to all my friends... wait, what friends? But instead of being stupid and wasting my time, I run off to my assigned locker and empty the stuff I don't need into it- the binders and shit for my last three periods will be pic...

Chapter 8 By Kari and Khadaj Once Sive entered the bridge, Zlanta got right down to business, showing her the various stations to her new crew-mate. Since most of them looked very much like her scout ship, only much more grand, Sive had no trouble absorbing all the information from Zlanta.  “I think I have the basics down now Zlanta, unless we come across some real bad storms or pirates I shouldn't have to bother anyone o...

You joined Alexa for a while. I saw you in the halls with the Pinheaded football players we used to laugh about. You mostly ignored me the first half of sophomore year, and, surprisingly, so did the Blonde Squad. That all changed right around finals time though. I was absent for two days and when I came back, I was ghost-like and shaky. I was the frail girl we used to joke about - the one I never thought I'd be. I actuall...

We never met face to face but I knew right from the startFor whatever reason you'd have a place in my heartI can't explain it, words can't describeHow you made me feel way down deep insideYour words were lies, said without meaningYour motives unclear, left me needingIt's hard to believe that our paths crossed for a reasonWhen in the end you left me bleedingIt's cruel fate to love one sidedThe feeling is awful, like I'm sl...

The wake-up alarm sounded in my quarters. That irritating oddly pitched buzz filled my head as my mind drifted into consciousness. They have scientifically created the sound that our hearing and brains can’t ignore. I think it is a combination of a baby’s cry, the sound of a cat whose tail is stepped on, and a nagging wife all rolled up into one sound, and then add a little screech of fingernails on a chalkboard. “I’m awa...

pouty lips twinkling eyes years ago you gave me butterflies... You walked up to me at out middle school. I'd had quite a crush on you since a couple years before. Your lips were peachy pink, moist because you'd just licked them nervously. Your eyes were smiling at me even if your teeth were biting your bottom lip. You open your mouth, with those perfect teeth, and spoke to me- me. I looked around a bit, wondering if you w...

My boy lives in my pond The pond behind my house He whispers Whispers Whispers Sweet things to me My boy My boy My sweet dear boy Lives in my pond And tells me great tales Of his world beneath He is ghastly pale With dead hollow eyes Flesh decaying but I love him just fine My boy My boy My sweet dear boy Lives in my pond Behind my house Come he says Come join me and see The wonders around The wonders around me Don’t stray...

"Then she closed her eyes, found relief in a knife, the blood flows as she cries..." The Way She Feels by Between the Trees. silver blade porcelain skin life fades oh what a state I'm in red blood black hole what person would think this is my goal? knife to wrist empty heart remember when a wound kissed brought together what was apart? childhood teenage years the change between should not cause all these fears but what am...

As the sun set on yet another year’s passing, As it slowly fades into the darkness of the past. A new day begins as the sun rises on a new beginning, The oldness of days past sheds away from you. The feeling of newness washes over you, The hope of a brighter tomorrow shimmers in your eyes. You start the journey down the uncertain path of new beginnings, As you head for what lies ahead. A new year has begun and a new dawn...

The chill sets in whenever I approach, It's been that way since she lost faith in me. However much I try there's still reproach.This cannot be the way it's meant to be. Forgiveness now would be a kindly actFor what our love has been to her and me,Because my faith in her remains intactAnd she must see how great our love would be. It all began with something that was doneThat cut her heart and caused her doubt in me.It was...

The stranger came just as Giuseppe had finished spraying down the lab. The tables along three walls had become hazy green blurs, barely catching the light from the single bulb he had left lit. The dulled grey cabinets peering down at the tables stretched toward the ceiling in rows that quickly, almost unnoticeably, slipped out from sight. And no wonder, for high above him the walls drew together and created a lightless co...

Doctor Vincent headed his buggy back to town. As he rode he though about the conversation he had with this man called Carpenter. He was sure that he was one of those that he had sought and destroyed all across the Western states. Be they called Nosferatu, vampire or the undead they must be eliminated.But this time he could not be sure this time as there were questions that he had to find answers to. How could he not be re...

My princess deserves to be playing with dolls with long purple hair Or chasing rainbows to discover the gold. Not dealing with these issues, She is only a child. Our home is our castle, So she should have been safe. Why did this happen? What did she do? I guess I am to blame, Because I trusted this person They were like my family And I never suspected. So as I went out on the town Enjoying times with my friends My princes...

I've suddenly gotten old I'm rather set in my waysBut when I go dining outI'm the one that has to pay. Some like the one eateryThey claim it's almost heavenTo me that place is notI just call it Barf Evans. Another sits on every cornerWith arches of gold on siteThe food there is terribleIt tastes of ground up tripe. Other places are mere copiesAll over our fine landThe food is always the sameKind of tasteless and bland Giv...

The light,Blissful and soft.Warm and inviting.Sometimes it calls me,I never listen.But what would it be like?The right cocktail of drugs,Slowly slipping away,No pain, just a blissful feeling.But in the darkness......Hope.A feeling? A person! It keeps me going, she keeps me going...Don’t take away my hope.For what is Hell,But the total absence of hope? So, I write.I write to keep those thoughts and feelings at bay. People...