One night I looked in the mirror and I saw my face, pale and warped with the most horrifying expression. I was really confused, until I realized it was a window.
Horrfying
As I opened the fridge, my heart sank, and I felt like fainting. It was completely empty
Darkness
Peter lived in darkness. A darkness for which he knew there would be no end, as he forgot where he put the spare fuses
Appropriation
She told me if I did it, the effects would wear off in twenty four hours. It’s been four days, and I’m pretty certain I’m not getting my body back; I wonder what she’s doing with it?
Lies Joss Whedon Told Me
Did you know that refusing to drink the blood of a vampire doesn’t necessarily protect you from becoming one yourself?
I didn’t.
Accommodations
My parents feed my sister through a hole she cut in the door to her room, which she has bolted shut from the inside, because, according to them, she doesn’t want to eat with us anymore.
When I ask why not, my mother said, “She doesn’t like what happened to your other sister.”
The Getaway
A dust cloud filled her rearview mirror and her screams shattered off the windows. She let the last tears fall as she outran her broken heart.
Secrets
My Boyfriend is a girl. My parents wouldnt approve, So i use female pronouns.
Bessie Blue
i was nine years old when i discovered i could sing. but us ‘monkeys’ simply weren’t allowed.
Chip off the Old Block
I asked my dad why it seems my mom has eyes in the back of her head. He says every family is unique and I should shut up and concentrate on keeping my gills clean.
Nomad
No one will rent me an apartment because they say my rental history is ‘spotty.’ I’m not sure why anyone thinks there’s anything spotty about apartments where mass burglaries, arson and a triple homicide happened.
White Lies
He told me I would only have to sleep in the box at nighttime. But it’s always nighttime now.
Truck
I saw it bearing down on me, this time it was a truck, later it would become more. Twenty-One years later they both have messed me up.
Truck
Home
I’m so excited to go home that I didn’t realize the trail of liquid behind me as I walk to my front door. The door opened and I can hear my mom shouting to my dad that I was stabbed multiple times and left to rot in a ditch since yesterday.
Understanding
“You don’t understand. You lie, you comfort, but you will never feel it.”
Don’t Judge a Book
They said what was a nice girl like me doing alone in a graveyard at night. That was the last thing anyone heard them say.
Parents of the Year
We tell our kids the phantom footsteps are the house settling, that the tapping on their window is a tree branch in the wind. Now if we could just come up with a logical explanation for the chainsaw noise from the basement last night, or where our pesky neighbor disappeared to.
All in Good Time
So many on this planet worry about alien attack, invasion and takeover. What we’ve never bothered to tell them is that we won’t waste resources that way; we won’t begin terraforming until their civilization has died off naturally, which will happen much sooner than most believe.
Best Friends Forever
I tell everyone he died in the ocean after our plane crashed, and that I survived for two months on the island by hunting ‘sea birds and other small game.’ He really died about a month after we both swam to shore, and I hit him over the head with that rock so I could live off his remains until they found me.