Three weeks ago, my brother died. Three weeks ago, I stopped raising my hand in class. Three weeks ago, I became lost in the background where no one would look for me. Or so I thought.

Today, I got a pass in study hall.

I'd gotten at least one a wee…

Hey so a few ideas.

I'm going to try and take some webcam pictures out the window, it's just desert but maybe it will help. I have started a "soup" blog and may be able to post pictures there

Yeah I have played ARGs before and that's how I knew about bina…

The wifi here is not good I wrote a sequel but it failed to send and the text was erased so here I am again, I'll sum up.

When I was interrupted last time it was a new person, a bearded man the others seemed to be obeying, stern but at first pretty calm

H…

They couldn't pay me to love you more.

In my bedside drawer, beneath condoms, and candy bar wrappers, I keep a box for you, beneath empty pill bottles with barely legible labels.

A locked box.

Metal and hard and cold to touch, I brush my fingers acro…

A little bit of bleakness had settled into her heart and she was fighting herself to shake it off.

Normally, she was a hopeful person. She did most things with a smile. Today, however, a truth had crept into her heart that she had fought for months to ke…

There’s nobody who knows as well as I

How stealthily dark thoughts will bruit and shove

The rational, the calmer ones; they lie

And whisper: “You’re not worthy of their love!”

.

And oh my dear, I know that this is true,

So venomous to both of us. Yo…

I don't much care just what we do,

So long as Anna's tight with Roo;

I'm always sure to love the view

Our friendship's strong, and we are going out!

We've chatted long and learned the way

To interact, share thoughts, and say

The words the other needs…

It started when she finally felt good enough to go on a date with a new guy. It was a nice evening and she felt alive again. When she looked at her phone after returning home, there was a text from him. "Why are you going on dates? You shouldn't be go…

A moment passed, for Matt Quyen, where he was uncertain if he had gone from standing to lying on his chest, about a story lower, with a few broken ribs and ringing in his ears, in one unbroken sequence, or if he had lain there for minutes or hours. His ve…

I do believe the time for hope has passed

Desire she may to hear its lost refrain

Our friendship like the clouds is overcast

Abandoned love can only end in rain

Consider now the change that time revealed

No outcome of our battle left to chance

Deep wounds…

I'm going to meet my friend tonight

When we hold hands, my heart's so light

I'll kiss his face and hug him tight--

My pulses race just thinking of our date.

For months uncounted, it has been

My dearest wish, though still unseen,

To bravely ask, with…

"I want answers, and I want them NOW "

"I'm sorry, I... I just..."

"You WHAT!?" "WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK NOW?!" he sighs, "Look, you're an amazing detective and all, but i can't deal with this now. the press is pressuring me for answers, and they won'…

"Detective, are you sure this is even worthwhile? It's just your average run and gun,"

"Believe me, he had a motive. What it is, I do not know. yet."

"How can you be sure? after all, we have no clues, only a dead body and lots of blood."

"I... I don't …

I followed him, and caught the first constable around the corner with a raised hand.

"Martese Royal Armed Forces, sir, please stop there. There has been an incident. Please instruct your men to form a perimeter here; officials from the His Majesty's Cour…

Her family. Her friends. The reasons she hadn't given up yet. They'd all be hurt if she didn't succeed.

Or worse.

She had to.

She pulled on her magic and focused.

...

She'd done it, sure, but it took her too long to figure it out. She couldn't br…

They picked up the pace, moving through light brush and loose groups of trees. Astarlane opened.

"What are we looking to escape?"

The elf did not look around, maintaining their new pace without effort.

"The obscurant products in the air are a precursor…

After the meal, Sadie cleaned her rifle, Tenever patched up his tactical vest and Astarlane ran a grindstone over her sword. Few words were spoken, each preferring to leave the others in a companionable silence.

Astarlane remembered the smiles and laught…

I spun around in lazy, mostly elliptical, circles. Enough time had passed--years, decades?--that I couldn't remember being caught. Orbiting her was an honor, a duty, a pleasure, a pain. It was all I knew. I kept watch because I didn't have a choice. I was…

"C'mon man, I need you on this!"

KG had been pleading for 20 minutes. I could feel myself drowning in his desperation.

"This is crazy, KG. How many hits you think we can score from robbing a goddamn convenience store??"

"Enough, man. Enough for now. We …

Kendreth Leary, manager of the targeted bank, had never trusted Tory or Constantine, even when they were a newly shacked up couple of fifteen months old. Something always seemed odd about the two of them. Maybe it was the flinty scruff on Con's chin, or t…

It wasn't long before I recognised the gentle tread of my sister making her way down the hall. I smiled at that, even as she opened the door and rushed into an embrace.

"Oh, it's good to see you, Illy."

"You too. Cerian, this is Ryle. We met at Four Pea…

I dropped a handful of silver for a reasonably nondescript pheasant from a market stall. With our collars up and eyes averted, we blended in easily with the twilight crowd. I was a hunter going home tired and hungry, and we were given barely a glance.

Cu…

Standing behind the door was a young woman. I knew her name, she used to be a maid at the Lightreach manor, I saw her around a lot more than I expected, she was - ah!

"Good evening, Grace. I would like to see my sister, if it is at all convenient."

She …

I wake up to my phone ringing. My first thought: Oh, hell! Am I late for work? Again?

The next sound I notice is the shower running. Good. If my wife, Mari, is in the shower, I'm in good shape. That bit of stress off my mind, I reach out from under the…

I am a bottle of chaos.

All shook up from life.

The day to day,

Just adding more to the mixture.

Never feeling good enough,

I am the worst in my own eyes.

.

But when I look in your eyes,

The chaos silences.

I am out at sea,

Lost by the feeling of peace,

F…