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The air around them was so dry that it seemed to crackle with electricity. The baby hairs on her arm stood on end, stretching as if they made to escape their very follicles. The minute she smelled the change in the air, she pulled Jake up to her favorite spot on high–out her bedroom window and onto the small sub-roof of her parent’s house. The smell, the roof, brought back memories her her childhood. Of her first thunderstorm outside in the elements.
Jake touched her shoulder and a sparked arced between them, blue and quick. Unapologetic, he pointed off in the dark distance just beyond the tallest fir tree in the neighborhood.
“I saw a flash. Wait a second, the thunder is coming.”
And indeed it was. one–two–three–four–five seconds later it came rumbling across the rooftops, booming and reverberating off their bare skin. Summer thunderstorms were the best, Shaina knew. The ones without rain, and without wind. The ones that seemed like they were bottled up clouds of anger, releasing in deadly bolts whenever they couldn’t hold any more. The ones where she could stand on the roof and feel like she was the conductor of a supernatural orchestra.
Perhaps the roof wasn’t the safest place to be in a thunderstorm, but that’s exactly what made it thrilling. The risk. To feel her skin prickle and ripple with the electricity and sound, as if her senses were increased, her adrenaline running wild.
A bolt of blue lightning etched itself briefly across the dark sky, its light shadow lingering in their eyes for seconds longer than it existed in reality. one–two–th–and the thunder boomed again.
Shaina threw back her head and laughed.

You watched me from the wooden chair across the room as I picked up my phone. You didn’t think I would do it. You didn’t think I could. Frankly, I couldn’t believe I had even volunteered. Steven sat opposite you, […]

have you ever seen the look they give you? Where they stare down their noses and telepathically try to shove your sorry ass into a corner? Have you ever entered a room and suddenly gotten the feeling that they […]

It went up, up–so high, so high. It was painful to look at, so he looked around it. The leaves shone artificial fuscia. The water around him refracted an impossible neon red into his pupils. The smoke that trailed it, a wispy light pink. He thought about how blind he would have gone if he [...]

Redness flooded her face when she flicked on the light. The room smelled like chemicals–and her tools were strewed haphazardly about in the dimness. The portraits she had taken yesterday were pinned to the line above her left ear, caressing it when she moved, as if the people in them were reaching out to her.

Whenever I read the word “scout”, there are a few things that come to mind: first off, Scout, the girl character in To Kill a Mockingbird, and secondly, as the verb “to scout”, as put to use in reconnaissance video games. =)

edge of a knife, edge of a cliff, edge of sanity, The Edge, edge of the river, edge of the ocean, edge of a frozen lake, edge of a road, edge of a friendship, edge of relationship, teetering on the edge, sharpening the edge, dancing on the edge, to edge past someone, to edge around [...]

Avenue Bread. A shop. A bakery. A perfumery. When you open that gleaming front door on a hot summer day, the cool air from within whooshes out at you, carrying the yeasty aroma of baking bread straight up your nostrils. It’s almost too much, and you shudder with pleasure, your stomach growling even though you [...]

How many time is too many? How many chances do you give a person? How many chances do you give yourself to be strengthened by pain? I’m at three. Is it like baseball? Are chances given out like good pitches? Pitch em’ three good ones, and if they strike out–they walk off the field. Does [...]

Her hair fell in a long black curtain, the fine strands reflecting a shine just like silk. In front of the mirror, I gently took the brush from her hands, running it through the already smooth strands to make the black shine brighter still. She peered at me through her eyelashes and blushed.