Beautiful child Bright as the sun Mischievous rascal Looking for fun She comes to class bringing her attitude A false bravado that hides the real girl inside A mouthy young soul that keeps herself hidden Throwing up walls and burning bridges. If you are f...
The rain finally started falling tonight. The steady clanking of raindrops on the roof soothed me. I like it. A relaxing feeling filled me then, and I found myself crying. I guess my emotions decided it’s about time they break out.So I cried. Along with t...
I grew up in a pessimistic family where my parents imagine the worst outcome in a situation and that outcome would always turn out to be true. At first I thought they were psychic and that they predicted the future but that thought went away as quickly as...
It was a cold, lonely Friday night in a small town in Indiana (Friday the thirteenth, to be exact). The wind howled with a cry like an anguished wolf, and made the bare limbs of the trees tremble like feverish invalids. It was the kind of night that fores...
Here I am, sitting on a large bus of high-school students (with a few middle-schoolers thrown in), as we are riding back from a church trip. My heart is heavy, and all I can do is stare out the window at the trees that line this Alabama highway, and think...
Chapter Four: Well isn't this just peachy? I stared at Daniel Whytikker on the doorstep, then tilted my head to the side in curiosity. "Why not? He's been missing for over a year, and if he didn't run away, wouldn't he have turned up by now?" The boy nodd...
Repercussions, and some time later.It took a surprisingly little amount of time to explain to Caleb what had happened, and how he became what he now was. As far as I could guess, I told him, for some reason he decided to ignore my warning and went ahead o...
The Release of Theodore Kyreson, two years too early..."How about this, Caleb?" I flung back the changing room curtains and held out my arms, cocking my head to the side. I twirled around a bit, making the short pleated black skirt fan out slightly. The b...
The years without you, and someone new to comeI drove past it, finally completing my surveillance. I sighed happily, relaxing enough to speed up and drive away from the accursed place. It hurt every time I went near it. I flicked the car stereo on and ins...
The day I died, was the day my life truly began."Anna! Anna!" I turned, and smiled when I saw my friend, Cassandra waving at me, hanging from the arm of a dashing young man. I could see that her behavior hadn't improved during my absence. Still, it was go...
