A short story It was one of those golden, humming lunch breaks at Brookvale Junior High School. The hallways pulsed with chatter and shuffling sneakers, trays clattering in the canteen, and the sun casting lazy rectangles across the floor through the corridor windows. Billy Jensen jogged back toward Class 2-B, his backpack bouncing on one […]
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A short story White sands stretch as far as the eye can see.The twilight sky begins to blanket the horizon.The gentle crashing of waves seems to whisper. “Calm down.”“Everything will be alright.” Unaffected by the crowd joyfully playing, laughing, running around.Yet, the heart remains empty, quiet, alone. Today marks exactly one year since the passing
A short story Claire woke to the smell of rain and a faint burning odor — like singed plastic. Her head throbbed. Her mouth was dry. The living room around her looked… familiar, but wrong. Too quiet. The light too still. She sat up on the couch and winced. A deep ache curled behind her
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A short story The bus rolled through the foggy hills just after midnight, its interior warm with humming fluorescent lights. Seat fabric faded, windows streaked with drizzle. Outside, the trees flashed by like shadows with secrets. Tom adjusted his backpack and settled into the third row from the back. A headache pulsed behind his eyes,
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A Short Story The rain fell like ash, soft and steady. The sky over St. Helena’s Cemetery was a colorless bruise. James Hale stood beside his wife’s coffin, unmoving. He couldn’t cry—his grief was too tightly wound, like a fist buried in his chest.Emily had died just three nights ago. A car crash on the
