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I remember going for a swim... I remember thinking about safety.... I remember the anchor and "Zeus" - an incredible ship.... What happened down there. said miss Austin Hard to say....
I fell off the side of a cliff with a rocky patch below. I thought I had fell to my death all alone. Cracked my skull and fractured my spine. I was hurt in the end although the beginning was fine.
Welcome to what is left of planet Earth, population: 26, Some kind of suicidal God that none of us knew of got his fix, Now, there are only 26, floating upon the river Styx, Heading for year 0's era,...
Against the elements You battle on Just a sapling In the breeze Standing your ground On wasteland No protection From falling trees Every year Growing stronger Branches reach Towards the sky A new...
Uncontrollable fire swept through my home like an angry, roaring beast. Nothing but acrid smoke was burning the inside of my lungs, as that was all I could breathe in.
Name: Sky Age:16 Rank: adolescent Number:45689BCC That's what's on my bed in the adolescent dorm, My mother is dead My farther is a soldier at this bloody Volt The year is 4018 The world had...
Sorry for the wait. :) 19 years later... ~Elle~ Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock... My eyelids shoot open and I gasp, nineteen years worth of air flooding into my lungs, oxygen rushing through my veins.
I could sense something was wrong; uneasiness hung in the air as me and the pilot sat tensed.
My hand falls to my face, The black eye that I have, Harsh and fatal memories I can't erase, People I can not beat, A reputation I now keep, The deadly scars, My body holds, The bloody bruises, For...
The minute I got home I pulled out my cell phone and called Octavius and told him everything that had happened. "I'm so sorry I should have followed you home," he's said.
Is the existence of this world ‘believed’. “Do you remember back in Lornera. When a meal a day was nothing but a dream. Poverty. The word was more of a lifestyle then a label.
A deep, guttural groan reaches my ears, followed immediately by grasping hands and gnashing teeth. Surprisingly powerful jaws snap shut mere inches from my face.
Her shuddering breath echoed throughout the room like dimes in a tin can.
Spend the day working hard. Spend the evening keeping my guard. Spend the night struggling to sleep. Holding on but I don't want to keep. Hanging on in there,not for myself.
I wipe the steam from the bathroom mirror and stare at my reflection. A young boy of eighteen, his dark brown hair an unruly, wet mess, looks glumly back.
Spy6 taught me all there was to know on the humans. The training always took place in the morning. The humans were vulnerable in the morning and in rainy weather I learned.
The night came and I wiped off the rainbow from my shoulder. Shortly after it rained again. My tent was in the middle of the field. The rain was coming down like wild horses now.
#household The power goes out throughout the street Everything goes dark and outside we meet Everybody's asking the same exact question Have you got a spare flashlight because ours as been...
#household. It's my first time. And I am afraid. My father told me. This job pays. So don’t mess it up. Don’t let me down. Now go down. Into the mines you go. The dim. Dark. Dusty mine. I go.
We won't give up, We will fight to the death. Savour ever moment. Value every breath. We'll scrap and claw, To save our race. We won't give in to pleas, Or a desperate face.
Seasonal - Autumn The girl awoke with wet eyes. The sky was clouded and rained down upon her. As she stood up she felt joy in the squelched ground beneath her feet. She started to walk.
#6 She had no idea how deep she had got into the forest, every tree looked the same, it was so dark, cold and eerie, there was no way of telling if she was going right, left, forwards or backwards.
The hands have faded and onyx and his team are running towards me, I lift my head wearily as I watch the last of the plants slowly shrivel up Then my vision goes blank..
Seasonal - Summer The girl awoke with shadow in her eyes. The blistering sun hit down hard and made strange pattens on her soft body. She seeked cover and found it under a leafy plant.