My legs burned, my side ached, my mouth was dry and still they chased me. “You’ll only make it worse,” my mother had chided, “if you run.” I should have listened to her, but here I was, making it worse. The cemetery was up ahead, I bolted through the open archway and vaulted three headstones….

Big moment. Big, big moment. You can do this. You are ready for this. You’ve been preparing for this moment for years. You know what to say, what to do, just do it and don’t mess up. Be yourself, be your very awesome self, they will love you and you’ll succeed. Nothing to be nervous…

This was the same club where we met. The DJ then was a chubby dude that wore heaps of fake gold chains. He jammed with one earphone on his head, his rings glinting in the disco lights as he made the famous screeching record sound. He spun tracks that kept you dizzy for hours, if…

“What do you think they are doing with us?” Little Tessa’s voice shook even in a whisper as she looked up at her elderly companion. “Well, back when my grandfather was alive, he used to work in a mine. It went deep underground and many passages were no bigger than you.” He took the time…

I heard a knock. I could sense who was standing on the other side. I just knew, it had to be him. He was the only person I wanted to see most in the whole world, and also the only person whom I dreaded seeing. When we last talked, it was as if there was…

The wind whipped ferociously at the siding, thumping the pieces against the house as each one strained to hold on. Sirens continued to blare somewhere outside, but from inside the bathtub, we couldn’t hear them. Huddled together, my sister and I, pale faces, big eyes, cold hands, we listened to the howling wind grow stronger….