Monster_Real_Hold onto Hope_The Long Sleep
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Monster
You are nine years old, a scrawny, introverted boy with one friend, the daughter of the Greene's - the family who's lived in Greene Haven for the largest amount of time. That's why the town was named after them. Ever since you were born, all you've ever heard are stories about 'the Chosen One' and their special abilities. All the stories that have ever been read to you are about the Chosen One, and you have many things memorized about them, including the fact that a new one is chosen every year. Although you admire the 'Chosen One,' everyone else in your town seems to despise them. One day, yo...
Real
It was an average Tuesday afternoon just after lunch. She glances up unconsciously in the moment between greeting families. The lights and camera flashes distort her vision, but she can see the queue line wrapped around the pillars. It winds out of the doors into the world beyond. She can hear muffled whispers as families wait to see her.“Look at her dress, Mommy. It’s just like mine. Well, almost. Do you think she really has glass slippers?”“Ask her when it’s your turn, Annie."“Mom, can we go ride Pirates of the Caribbean next?”“Yes Timmy, but be patient. You know how important this is to you...
Hold onto Hope
I was fifteen when it first happened. I had been curled in a ball in the corner of my room, blasting music in my headphones to try and block out my mom’s screams, when silence fell heavy around me. The sounds of waves soon replaced the quiet. Then came the feeling of coarse sand squeezing between my bare toes. I was at the beach, or more specifically the small secluded beach that had been minutes away from my old house in California, a place that had become my solace from the ages of ten to thirteen. I had some of the best moments in my life on that beach. Before my mom remarried and moved us...
The Long Sleep
Prologue Last week had been a particularly grueling week at work. Everything that could go wrong had gone wrong. I worried and fretted all this weekend and I was very anxious about the upcoming week. So I decided to go to bed early. I remembered this was the weekend that Daylight Savings Time started, so I set my clock ahead one hour and I instantly drifted off to a sound, deep sleep… Chapter 1 It began with The Big Blast. I was going about my everyday hustle and bustle work day when all of a sudden, it got very, very dark in the middle of the day. It was like a solar eclipse, which i...