Xanadu
 

Words circling my mind, "It's finally nice out. Clean your car." But maybe six-year-old me didn't want to. My car, modeled after a 2003...

"What's today's date?" asks the underclassman girl sitting next to me in Physics class, as she tries to look at the formulas on my...

Frantically rubbing my hands while waiting in the cold for 16 hours, I try to regain feeling in my fingers, toes, and nose. I feel my...

The power just went out and my digital clock is blinking, 1:04. All I can think about is the darkness of my surroundings and the loudness...

She needed the attention. She needed the feeling of want. She was playing a dangerous game that no one could realize until it was too...

An endless stretch of sand and dunes glimmer in the afternoon light. The wave's fingers smash and stroke the land in a repeating rhythm....

Knife in one hand and wound in the other. The self-inflicted pain was all too familiar now. The pattern seemingly unstoppable, like the...

You always create your own problems. Life that is meant to be simple seems like a fantasy to me, for that simplicity quickly turns into...

She was in the wonderful world of Disneyland, happy as can be. Her innocent and immature mind could not begin to try and understand what...

Parked in an empty lot by the docks, watching the calm water glisten as the sun set to an intensified orange. The sun slowly slipped,...