Submerged_All Hallow's Eve_The Battle of Gettysburg_White Mirror
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Submerged
The most shameful aspect of my decision to take up cave ping was that I hadn’t even come up with it on my own, despite all the Sundays of my childhood I spent exploring caves with my Uncle Bill, and the year of studying abroad in Australia I spent scuba ping. My only excuse is that my brain was a fetid stew after five months of listlessly sweating on my parents’ couch, half-heartedly applying for other forensic accounting jobs while becoming increasingly sure I never wanted to work in an office again. As my father reminded me daily, I had to figure out something to do. They hadn’t spe...
All Hallow's Eve
October thirty-first, Halloween. The one night of the year when the ethereal and material realms come so close their boundaries collide. The one night people should stay indoors, surrounded by a circle of salt and warding symbols, praying that the wickedness did not find its way into the safety of their homes. Yet for the five, it was the one night in the year they got a break from being themselves.Five kids stood on the edge of a sidewalk late at night, staring down an empty street. Lights shone from most houses, laughter, and music coming from some. A few plastic pumpkins and some real ones ...
The Battle of Gettysburg
The house rang to the songs of Vicente Fernandez. The aroma of beef, pork, chicken, and mixed spices, circled inside the house like a happy ghost roaming freely like it owned the two-story www.onedoor.cccozy home. The corn husk’s wrapped around the pork, like a wrestler pinning his opponent. Another stockpot began to slowly boil releasing scents of tamarind, peaches, guava, prunes, hibiscus, sugarcane, and cinnamon with a touch a piloncillo, declaring a scent-war on the tamales steaming next to it, fighting like bitter rivals to see who could take over the home first. Maria and her mother had stayed up u...
White Mirror
The following is an extract of my upcoming book White Mirror (work in progress). Chapter 1My name is Connor. Connor White. I’m an ordinary student who has a hard time. Well, at least it was like that my whole life until a few years ago. My parents travel a lot and look for new jobs, so I usually change my school once a year. This means stress. A lot of stress. But it slowly went away because of a new “thing”. A new ability, power, or something that I don’t know what to call.I discovered that I can read the minds of other people at the age of 11、 This helped me in every situation so far. Every...