Captive pt3
He shows me to a small room upstairs where I will stay until I change my mind. In the middle of the night I creep out of my room. I fly downstairs and find the…
Captive pt2
“I’m a nice guy though, so I’ll make you a deal. If you can find a cheap air flight I’ll let you leave free and clear. I’ll even let me assistant help you.”He…
Captive
I find myself in an older mans house. His tone is kind but there is a twisted glint in his eyes that matches the way his lips curve up slightly. He’s telling…
Alone
I’m trapped, trapped in this shell of loneliness. No one can understand what it is like to be me. The crippling fears, the anxiety, the nervousness; It’s…
Freezing.
My breath fogs the clear surface as my nose is pressed against the glass. I peer outside to my desires. Outside it’s raining but it doesn’t appear to be…
entrapment
Eleven years of education slipped by without the slightest notice of my illiterate. I think - I think I might have just forgotten how to write. The words are…
A Clean Slate
Mass finished his early morning exercises and flopped back on to the bed. With practiced ease, he opened the drawer of the lamp table, his fingers dipping…
Jarred
The bug, trapped in a jar, flies buzzing loudly as it bounces off the glass. Though its effort is erratic, frantic, its effort’s awarded with only a faint…
When You Don't Know the Words
My shoulder is going to break before the door. Still it withstood his bashing, standing solid and metallic, each bang resonating strangely through the small…
Demerso Siccum
These walls, they are covered, from base to ceiling with pictures, of eyes. I’m trapped by their stares. I try to pull them off, but I am too weak, and they…
The Ward
Walls of white and empty heads, with eyes as dead as their spirits.This place was the end of the line, when you can no longer hide it.They had come for him a…
Somewhere Else
Lunch proceeded as meals often did--snide comments about the ovine masses over dry, overly spiced food. The walk back to the car, the outrageously priced…
Haunt
Whisper in the wind Trapped between a synonym And a dark, cold place
The Metal Room...pt.2
“You must tell me what he gave you” Marks shook his head. He looked up, straight at the stranger. “I found a baseball out there, that was weird” The stranger…
The Metal Room
Rays of light. Ringing ears. He’d finally woken up. “Awake, stranger?” said a voice from a far. He couldn’t lift his head to see its point of origin. “Where am…
By Passionsocks
My friend, I fear you have been trapped by the page, All these colors you’ve used — a war did you wage, Its past time to unwind, to surrender your ink. And…
Final Options
It took them 5 minutes to tear through. Just as we heard the last piece of the barricade go, an explosion ripped through the hallway. “What the...” Peretti…
The Anti-Sam
Stumped amidst her own chains, Frances watched May pick over her manacles, hunting for any weakness. “...I mean, this is just a bit of a hiccup,” May babbled…
Prison
“Shouldn’t we... shouldn’t we talk about it out of earshot?” “What, the kid? Nah, he don’t even talk. No worries.” Stop it. Just stop it. “Well... alright…
Through My Own Dead Eyes
I remember the first time I got drunk, how I remained lucid and aware but unable to stop acting like an idiot. It was like my brain became disconnected from…