Bryce hates hiking. His legs hurt from going uphill, and he is terrified of heights. He would do anything to get out of climbing a mountain, which is why he […]
Category: Fiction
“Daddy, wait,” I pleaded, pulling the delicate string on my nightstand lamp to counter the darkness in the room. “What about a bedtime story?” He stood in the doorway, his […]
There I was, standing pitifully in front of the wreckage of the world. An unremarkable grain among the ruins of the fallen metropolises. A blur along the horizon, polluted by […]
She feels their fingers intertwine. Inside she feels as though she is walking down the stairs on Christmas morning. Like she is at the top of a roller coaster right […]
Lia let go of her luggage with one hand and ran it through her raven-black hair as she searched the platform for the best place to load her luggage. Being […]
ONE The hourglass nestled in my hands continued to tick down to zero, to Test Day. The day when all members of the Domes that have turned eighteen on or […]
Colors and numbers. Numbers and letters. Letters and colors and sounds. Swirling and swirling and dropping him into an endless abyss. Falling. Faster. Faster. Terminal velocity. What was that word? […]
Part XXXIX written from Robert’s point of view: Robert looked up at the house, sweating in the glaring sun as he approached. The sounds of his brother hammering drew him […]
I looked at my screen in shock, but also a little in awe. When I tried to divert my attention out the window, onto the turbojet, I couldn’t help it […]
