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She let her hands roll over the yellowing pages of her book as the grass curled around her legs. The wind grasped the pages and flipped through them curiously before stopping on a page with a script title, chapter […]

“Promise you’ll never forget me?” the little boy questioned as his mother herded him into their family’s small, silver car. He sat in the hot, leather seat and looked at all the items that surrounded him, each of […]

Jason and Emily stood near the banks of the river where they used to play as children. He bends over and his fingers fold around a round, flat rock. He straightens his back and, after giving Emily a wink, whips […]

Kazuki walked up to the door that led to Ryouta’s bedroom. From the room, Kazuki could hear the dull hum of his friend’s crying, which mixed with the occasional sound of an object being thrown against the wall. […]

He pushed back her long and dark hair, gently placing it behind her ear. “let’s go!” he whispered as he slipped his fingers into her hand. His feet carried them down the hill with grass that faded brown. When they […]

The car raced along the road, occasionally jumping at a pothole or one of the bumps that went unnoticed when the street was being repaved. Emily rested her heavy head on in her the palm of her hand, her fingers […]

It was a Saturday, many years ago, when the men wearing over-sized navy uniforms marched up to the doorstep and flung open the door. It was a Saturday when they barged in and he held his silver gun up to the […]

We looked around the barren village, allowing the cold air to drift over each of us and slowly take over. Then, like so many of the times before, a grey van pulled up (the same color as the concrete) and stopped […]

When I was a child, I never particularly enjoyed eating soups. Maybe it was the way that they sat on the stove top for hours and made the entire house smell like old ham. Or maybe it was the way that my father […]