“Dude! This stupid fridge won’t open. Come here, Tim,” Dan yelled as he struggled to keep his grip on the handle. Timothy walked over to the fridge, curious as to what Dan was talking about. “Okay,...

There’s a version of the world that exists without you in it. One that didn’t start with tragedy, but started with silence. Your room stayed the same. Nothing dramatic or huge changed. Your...

“Jerry, you can’t graduate,” Jerry’s mom explained to him.  “But mom--” Jerry began, but was cut off by his mom, who yelled at him for about an hour. He only slipped in a few words like...

Tom was sitting in his seventh-grade math class like any other day. All of a sudden, he felt a tap on his shoulder. When he turned around, he saw Josh, his bully. “What do you want, Josh?” said Tom. “Give...

Charlie had nothing to wear to the Halloween party, so he ran to his mother, complaining. She had the solution of reusing old costumes. Charlie groaned, but it was his only option. He entered the attic,...

Whizzzz! I reel in the fish that I've been looking for for days. “Get over here, ya rascal! Almost gotcha, almost. Ha! Gotcha.” As I look at the fish, it brings back a memory in my mind that I could...

“Dad,” said Kelie, “I miss you so much. I feel like it’s all my fault. I just wish you would come back.” The wind softly blew; the trees whistled. She closed her eyes, taking it all in: the smell...

Time goes by fast The minutes seem to melt away Everything goes away at some point Yet time is the fastest to leave But it is the most important thing   Time can either be on your...

My head was throbbing. I had no clue where I was or how I got there. No, I knew how I got there, but I still couldn’t believe it. Tentacles. Giant ones. I think it was storming too, but the sky was clear...

In a small town in Switzerland at sunset, church bells go off, and a mysterious fog floods the town. All citizens run to the nearest shelter every night to evade this fog, and hundreds of citizens have...