Echo Stories

The rain poured down like a relentless curtain, shrouding the city in a misty veil. Lyssa stood at the edge of the pavement, her eyes scanning the crowded streets as if willing her brother to appear. It had been three days since Vincent's disappearance, and the police had given up, dismissing his vanishing as a typical case of a young adult seeking adventure. But Lyssa knew better. She knew her brother would never leave w...

Do people go through life on a predetermined path, like a straight line? I often wondered that during the summer of my junior year of high school. I lived a straight line, it seemed like, and it was routine to me. I’d do the things normal people would at my age: hang out at the mall with friends, play video games, watch movies, that sort of thing. It wasn’t hard to admit to myself that things were pretty boring, but that...