A single bird crossed the bleak, grey sky, and squawked once, but immediately stopped, silenced by the invisible admonishments of its noiseless surroundings.
    A thouroughly typical man walked briskly through his industrialized environment, struggling to avoid eye contact with the People Who Do Not Have Homes, in the Non-Upper Class. He almost pitied them, with their purposefully little education, but he had been trained all of his life to Not Think about them. He was fortunate, and had...

    
    “Sit down,” my mom said in a raspy voice. Pollen. It was everywhere, and it always made her wheeze. I slumped down on the couch, praying it wasn’t for the reasons I thought it’d be for. Kik, Snapchat, iFunny, Skype. The words floated around in my mind like clouds, but throbbed as if each time I thought of each app, it was like a dagger to the stomach, over and over and over…
    “Mrs. Huppert said that...

    
“Sit down,” my mom said in a raspy voice. Pollen. It was everywhere, and it always made her wheeze. I slumped down on the couch, praying it wasn’t for the reasons I thought it’d be for. Kik, Snapchat, iFunny, Skype. The words floated around in my mind like clouds, but throbbed as if each time I thought of each app, it was like a dagger to the stomach, over and over and over…
    “Mrs. Huppert said that...

    
“Sit down,” my mom said in a raspy voice. Pollen. It was everywhere, and it always made her wheeze. I slumped down on the couch, praying it wasn’t for the reasons I thought it’d be for. Kik, Snapchat, iFunny, Skype. The words floated around in my mind like clouds, but throbbed as if each time I thought of each app, it was like a dagger to the stomach, over and over and over…
    “Mrs. Huppert said that...

The Characters You are About to Meet
Chantel (10)
Courtney (14)
Camille (16)
Facts about where they live:  the home is run down, old, and pitiful
Facts about the family:  these three sisters are living with their evil step-mother.  Their biological mother passed when they were little from a car accident.
Facts about the accident:  It was a bad storm, a drunk driver swerved off the side of the road into a ditch and took their mother’s car with...

The Characters You are About to Meet
Chantel (10)
Courtney (14)
Camille (16)
Facts about where they live:  the home is run down, old, and pitiful
Facts about the family:  these three sisters are living with their evil step-mother.  Their biological mother passed when they were little from a car accident.
Facts about the accident:  It was a bad storm, a drunk driver swerved off the side of the road into a ditch and took their mother’s car with...

“Sit down,” my mom said in a raspy voice. Pollen. It was everywhere, and it always made her wheeze. I slumped down on the couch, praying it wasn’t for the reasons I thought it’d be for. Kik, Snapchat, iFunny, Skype. The words floated around in my mind like clouds, but throbbed as if each time I thought of each app, it was like a dagger to the stomach, over and over and over…
    “Mrs. Huppert said that the...

    You're walking outside and a gush of wind hits your face, and with that feeling came a scent. A faint sence of familiarity, a feeling in your gut and heart that you can't quite understand. The feeling of uncertianity surrounds your body. It's like a flashback, a place or a feeling, a memory once forgotten, now returned. You can't quite put your finger on it, but in the back of your unsettled mind, you do. You remember the exact place and moment it happened,...

The real world isn’t safe, the real world can’t protect you from anything, the real world can’t help you on a test, the real world isn’t like a story, there are circumstances that challenge the story line. At best you can say that the real world is like a father figure who doesn’t come back one day, and there is no changing that because he has found someone else to share his life with without his wife and son included...

The real world isn’t safe, the real world can’t protect you from anything, the real world can’t help you on a test, the real world isn’t like a story, there are circumstances that challenge the story line. At best you can say that the real world is like a father figure who doesn’t come back one day, and there is no changing that because he has found someone else to share his life with without his wife and son included...

Crash! I kicked the door down with one mighty blow. It laid a splintering mess on the floor. Snores vibrated from the ceiling above and were suddenly cut off. My five KKK men and I proceed to a flight of rickety stairs. We tromped up them quickly, for they were groaning under our intense weight. When we reached the top, scuffling came from the room to our right. We entered it slowly and saw a woman, Charlotte Topham, trying to...

I was walking in the park like every other day. The wind was making the trees dance and I put up my hand to feel the breeze. But the wind parted around my outstretched hand and I pulled it back, the smile falling off my face. Continuing to walk on the gravel path I watched as my pristine sneakers repelled the dust swirling like fog in the air.
"Hey," I had been concentrating so much on my shoes that I...