As I sit here and write about a colorful tree,  I watch the leaves fall and think to myself,  this is the key.  The key to our memories,  the key to our families.    I see the beautiful...

6 AM is when you first wake up.  When you don’t know yet or don’t even care what the day is going to bring. This is when you two meet for the first time. You feel refreshing feelings of love and...

“SOS” Zoe sketched in the stand with a stick that had fallen from the trees. Valerie rolled her eyes at her sister. The two were stuck at their grandma’s house on the coast of Rhode Island for the...

I sat and watched in horror as the exterior of my home and the temple collapsed on itself. The air surrounding it was foggy with dust and ash, the bright orange flames of the fire consuming the buildings...

The sounds of growling and leaves crunching under feet are the only thing Amy could hear as she's running for her life in the dense forest. She searches around for any sign of a way to keep the beasts...

My sister, twenty-something years old and a mother, lives here at my parent’s house with her husband and son. I believe it has been like this for maybe two years as I helped with my young nephew. And...

It's what I need to do, This work that takes all day, It’s not a choice to be made.   I have a list of what is due. I put everything else away. It’s what I need to do.   All the effort...

It was a usual Thursday night of making dinner for the girls, assisting with the overwhelming amount of homework, and tied in with everything else the constant bickering between the two sisters. By this...

Walking into the unknown. Down a corridor toward the meeting room. With a knot in my stomach, I knock on the door and enter. Despite COVID shutting everything down for nearly a year, I had been consistently...

6Apologies from some are genuine. The people in the wrong remain the same. Without the help of realization the people in the wrong would always see themselves as right. Taking accountability makes...

 There were eight of us in the parking lot, staring deep into the abyss that was poorly titled: The Funnest Corn Maze in the Whole World. “Hold on! We’re not going to actually walk into this thing,...

This story was inspired by “Lemon Boy” by Cavetown. "Ahhh!" Robin yelled with all his might, "why is my heart racing so fast? Am I going to die? I feel like I can't breathe!" He thought to himself....