#88 Footprints on the Moon
When I asked my mama What I should be when I grew up, What I could be, How much of a person I could Possibly hope to Become? She said “The sky’s the limit…
#87 Back in Twenty Minutes...
Nadya, If you’re not awake by the time Rog-Rog gets back, you know he’s going to set Zomba on you, and neither of us wants to see you covered in alien slime…
#86 Kitty
I fell in love with Kitty as soon as I set eyes on her. Her black beady eyes met mine and she started barking like crazy. We didn’t name her for three weeks…
#85 Turned Tables
Sara sat bolt upright in bed. She thought she heard a moan from the hallway. That can’t possibly be true, she thought. Just go back to sleep. Ghosts don’t…
#84 Ring Ring
“Ring ring. Ring ring.” “What?” “You know what.” “I’m not doing this.” “Ring ring. Ring ring.” “...” “Answer the bloody phone!” “The phone isn’t the one…
#83 Summer Sunshine
The sun shining in the sky made me happy like I hadn’t felt before. Toji had said that he loved me. He loved me! I clutched my hands to my chest daydreaming…
#81 Thank You
“Thank you,” she whispered in my ear as she sat down. “What for?” “Just... thank you,” she said, a smile on her face but with no pearly teeth showing through…
#79 The Importance of Being Indie
There’s a girl out on the dancefloor, but how am I supposed to get her to like me? Heterosexuality’s not exactly my defining feature. Skinny jeans and…
#78 A Fight Worth Living Through (part one)
Veeza looked to the floor and pressed her hands together and her ifrit dealt the final blow to her opponent as the crowd standing at the trees began to…
#77 Summer Reminiscence
I sat in the sun as the clouds rolled over towards me in the distance. The sun sank ever lower to the East as my shadow stretched out across the lush green…
#76 Internet Love Song
BRB OMG LOL ROFLMAO I can’t beleive we met Over the internet, Love like this in the circumstances Is one in a million, but I swear this is true love at last…
#75 Imagine
Can you imagine a world without corruption? Where different peoples live in harmony under one elegantly blue sky and trade and laugh and dance around the fire…
#74 Last Bus to Vegas
I kick a can down the quiet street. The windows bear down on me like my parents’ ever disappointed stares. Another kick and the discarded can rolls - like my…
#73 Green with Envy
I scratched at my skin and pulled out my hair, begging more than anything to look like her, to encompass every inch of her personality and make it my own, and…
#71 The Chronicles of Nadya: Chapter One, Part One
Nadya swayed slowly with the movement of the bus, staring out with grey eyes at the greyer clouds above the trees, watching each teardrop slide down the…
#70 Still Life
Jack lies on the floor of his bedroom, his olive skin covered only by a thin sheet across his waist. With his arms spread and more sheets cascading out beneath…
#69 Going Slightly Mad
At that moment, with hope within arms’ reach, my body suddenly stalled. Had I found it so hard to trust a person that I wouldn’t even talk to this kind-faced…
#68 Day One: The End
Dear Diary, If you’re not my diary, and you’re reading this, I guess it means I’m dead- that is, if there’s anyone still out there. I don’t know. I don’t know…
#67 Nigel's Lament
Nigel flicked through the photo album again as his soon-to-be-wife, Ellen, got ready across the road. The woman in the hotel and the woman in the soft vinyl…
The Rest is Silence...
Everyone’s eyes were wide when I walked into school that morning. People huddled in clusters in corners, glancing furtively at me. My friends saw their glances…