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It is oddly weird. The one moment I am clutching to the railing of the bus seat in front of me, hanging sideways and upside down simultaneously, with my hair falling over my eyes and then in the blink of an eye I am standing here in this brilliant wh...

He watches the amber, iridescent light of the streetlamp above him as it shines down upon the old, grey sidewalk. Pinkish, brown bubble-gum circles decorate the grey slate. The rain falls incessantly down and the glow around the streetlight grows lar...

“I choose you.” As the words whisper over my lips, Kieran looks at me in shock. He murmurs disbelievingly, “Say it again.” I feel the dark shadows, which always push and prod into me whenever I am with Kieran lean closer, invading my space, as I say ...

I wailed as I begged the guard standing in front of the jail house, “I need to speak to her, please Liam. I will be so quick.” Michaila was standing behind me, my skirts were clutched in a bundle in her fist. She kept pulling me backwards, afraid for...

Lydia opened her bleary eyes. Something felt different this morning. She did not know what or why she felt this way. Something in her gut told her that today was different than it was yesterday. She had a feeling of trepidation on the pit of her stom...

When Genesis woke up that morning with muscle aches in places she failed to notice for the last sixteen years, lung shattering coughing fits, sporadic sneezing and a headache which made her eyes burn, she knew next to nothing about the food chain. Sh...

“I’m serious. My soul does leave my body when I am asleep.” “Nonsense, Gaby,” my mum exclaims as she turns away from me and walks across the cream coloured tiles in the kitchen toward the counter where the kettle waits for her. “Why won’t you believe...

As I grew older, I learned to never be a scared girl. I never worried about things which went bump in the night but standing in front of this door, I could feel an awareness I had not known before making a connection to things yet unknown. Before my ...

“I want to be the next internet sensation.” Bored with Facebook and Twitter, envious of YouTube videos getting in excess of eight million views, Richard pushes his palms against the edge of his desk and shoves himself away from his desktop. The wheel...

Sparks, like bright orange fireflies spiral into the sinister darkness of the night sky, as if funnelled up by an unseen hand from the huge fire in the centre of the imposing mud huts build around it. The ridges of the mountain surrounding these huts...