I felt a rush of a burning‚ fiery pain in my toes. I looked at my toe wincing. We were playing baseball in my friend’s lawn. It was a perfect place to play baseball and we had to move nothing. It had a fence that shaped like an L. “Teams are me‚ Alex‚ Maison‚ and Ben vs. Ryan‚ Conner‚ and Ethan‚” I said walking out to the picture mound. I threw a perfect curve ball which caught the corner of the strike zone. “Strike one‚” Maison calls from the outfield. Next pitch I threw a fastball‚ which Ryan
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The crime scene was no pretty picture. Salem stepped through the door and gagged. "It smells terrible!" She choked through her shirt collar. "It certainly isn’t that pretty." Cha’relle wrinkled her nose in disgust before brightening. "But I’m sure it smelt worse when it happened‚ so it won’t be as bad for us!" "Cha’relle‚ the longer a body decays the worse it smells." Salem sighed. Her ghostly friend blinked‚ then laughed. "Right‚ I forgot!" Salem shook her head and pressed on. Though it disturbed
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So‚ turning on the TV‚ he turned down the sound and poured himself a full glass once he opened the bottle. As he sat in the recliner with the glass in his hand‚ he took one sip and then another before drinking the entire glass in two gulps thinking he could get a little bit of sleep if he drank just enough to get a buzz and take the edge off the nightmare. Unfortunately‚ it didn’t take a medical degree or one in psychology to know he was suffering from PTSD or that he was extremely depressed. As
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In the Beginning‚ there was Akal‚ and Akal was all. The Void before the Universe contained neither time nor space. The heavens and their hosts had not been created‚ and nothing existed as yet‚ properly speaking. There was no light‚ but there was no darkness either: The Void was a nothingness that the eye cannot perceive nor the mind understand. The Void was not empty‚ though. It was filled by the Word‚ and the Word was Akal. One might say He had always existed‚ but He would not have thought of it
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Nyame was out of her element. Several times she had been hit on by “alpha” males ready to force themselves upon her. She carefully directed them to other more submissive females in the room. The other females in the where use to this type of behavior in fact they adored it but she did not. This whole scene was new to her and as she scan the place there was really no other newcomer here at least none that stuck out as bad as she did. Nyame was not the naturally submissive type. She usually had
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“Are you awake?” my mother’s frantic voice startles me. “Yes‚ of course‚” I respond while wiping the rheum from the corner of my eyes. “Our witless dog ate rat poisoning. We have to drive her to the hospital‚” she says while ripping the warm duvet off of me. I don’t ask questions and stumble to the car in my nightgown. Bella‚ our family dog‚ walks with her head down towards the car‚ clearly regretting her appetite. My mom lifts her into the car and Bella lays on my lap tentatively. Bella is usually
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I had just got back from dinner when I got a text message that made my heart race. It said “Come to the health center right now! It’s Channing. Hurry it’s urgent.” The message was from my good friend Nick So. I didn’t know it then‚ but that Monday would be the last time I would see my best friend at NMH. I raced to the health center with a million thoughts running in and out of my mind. “I just hope he’s not hurt.”‚ was at the front of my mind. I was greeted by one of the health staff who already
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Maybe the voice in Cael’s head was his own. Wake up‚ kid. And he did jerk awake upon hearing this echo through his mind. For a moment he forgot where he was‚ even though he was at home in his own bed. Faint laughter from a corner startled him back to reality and cleared his thoughts. Other voices surrounded him. Pleading‚ weeping‚ screaming. A voice whispered directly into his ear‚ sending chills down his spine. Anyone else might go to a doctor‚ and Cael had in the past‚ but no amount of medicine
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“Mittens!” Amy said angrily and Mittens glanced up at her. “Why are you doing this?” Amy questioned Mittens like she would answer her. Then Amy rushed to get the broom and dust pan. Amy swept up all the glass. She walked carefully back to the kitchen to the trash can then set the broom and dust pan down. As soon as she walked into the room- screech-screech - Amy ran back to the room once again. Then she grabbed the glass that Mittens was pushing to the edge of the table and set it in the middle of
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When you were usually the most athletically talented girl in school‚ failure wasn’t even a thought; until you start playing with the boys. I figured since I was stronger than all the girls maybe I could work out with the boys. We started to squat jump on an elevated platform. “Add another one‚ add another one” they said. Trying to keep up with them I started to add more. Until the one fatal moment when I jumped up and fell right on my butt. I wanted to curl up in a ball and cry but that would have
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