My last story_The Nightmare Box_Pulling the trigger_Lost by Memories by Khuzaimah Khurshid
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My last story
I stumbled across the word ‘serendipity’ and it’s meaning engulfed me like hot flames. It means the art of finding something beautiful without looking for it. To see a butterfly’s fragile wings in vibrant yellows and muted peaches, the sound of the sea spitting at rocks that had been softened by the cruelty of time, the taste of ripened blackberries breaking apart on your tongue. We don’t look for any of it and yet the world offers it to us anyway. In the same way, the world offered me writing and I graciously accepted. Bookshops had been pure magic to me, their scents and feel came to resembl...
The Nightmare Box
‘I still can’t believe we’re sitting here. There’s absolutely nothing to support these charges. I only hope the jury sees that.’ Mortis Kevork, along with his twin brother, Mikey, were anxiously waiting for the verdict that would decide their fates. Every attempt to quash the Crown Prosecution Service’s case was denied, even though the evidence was extremely flimsy. ‘Does the Magistrate have it out for anyone accused of this crime? It doesn’t make any sense.’ Looking behind him, Mortis saw his family and friends sitting at the back of the court, and received smiles of encouragement. He noticed...
Pulling the trigger
If you want the doors to open someone has to kill someone first were the words class V3 heard. All the students’ eyes were pointed at Leila. She had the gun. She looked into the terrified eyes and saw all the students slowly backing further and further away.Leila was isolated from the whole class, she had no friends. Every day she went to class, eyes filled with hostility and disgust would stare at her. The source of the hatred to Leila, the source of her torment was Jessica. She never said anything to her face, rather she treated Leila like air. Jessica spread rumors about her being a slut, a...
Lost by Memories by Khuzaimah Khurshid
I felt the winds rushed towards me, it came in the eye of a lightening bolt. The scene of bloody trials and immense emotions that piled up againswww.onedoor.cct the chest made me fall down in pain. “Emily, where are you?” The voice in the distant and it was very faint as soon when I realized that the world surrounding me went pure black. “Emily Ricks, you were outstanding today, and was very intelligent and outspoken in the meeting today,” exclaimed my boss, Patterson. “Keep it up, and who might have known, you might be the best candidate for the manager position.” I was surprised and excited at the same ti...