Panic! Heart hammered in a tiny chest. Leaves smacked into a twitching and furry face. Everything was a blur. Claws dug into the ground and into wood as it scurried over branches and leaves, seeking escape. There must be an escape! Frantic eyes glanced left and right but the only logical way was to always go forward. The forest was heavily dense, ( Read more... )

Signing up for second chance.

I thank you for this opportunity to be a part of this community. I don’t think it was an accident when I received an invite in my message box. This wasn’t the first time that I tried to be a part of a writing group. I tried a few times in a different one, only for the date to come and go with nothing to show for it. It pained me. But I thought to ( Read more... )

When I returned, I was met with silence and distance from everyone I knew, and even those I didn’t know. For three years, I had been missing from their lives; vanished one day on the whim of naive and immature mistakes. I still remember the 4am ride to the airport. It’s not something I do ( Read more... )

Light streamed in from windows lining a never-ending hallway; it was dark otherwise, an impenetrable darkness that was not malicious, but held secrets waiting to be discovered. A hand fingered along the walls, trailing along the smooth side. Stepping into the glow, a face peered into the window. The light intensified into a vivid recollection, ( Read more... )

The music played though I was unaware of it. I was part of a dance and I was unaware of that, too. As you stepped, I stepped, as you moved, I moved, turning and spinning as everything else spiraled downward into unbeknownst chaos. I was completely oblivious to the whole thing as you held me close, to better move and sway across the floor, or so I ( Read more... )

If fear is the heart of love, then I should be drowning in it, shouldn’t I? Yet, all my life, I’ve been afraid -- of everything. There *is* a kind of fear in bubblegum love with sweaty palms and a quickening heartbeat; but not a debilitating and paralyzing kind of fear, a fear that makes you afraid to live. If thought about too hard or too long, I ( Read more... )

A storm rumbled behind me and I had no idea. It was at my heels before I had time to even turn around. Why? Because I was deaf and dumb -- an infant in a body that demanded me to be more academic. They wanted quantum physics when all I could do was wail with a scrunched up face. I couldn’t open my eyes, and I didn’t want to. Who cared about the ( Read more... )

Come hither and I will show you wonders beyond what you’ve ever seen. Come with me, little mouse, and we will be quite the pair, indeed ( Read more... )

Clinking and rattling of metal chains broke the stagnant and suffocating stillness. It was the only sound of movement, the only sound that made sense in the consuming black pitch. The childhood fear of shadows died a long time ago. The only feelings, now, were unrelenting despair and irreparable brokenness ( Read more... )