Category: Real LIfe

  • Don’t Leave Me

    Bang. Alexa, Lauren and I crash through the venue doors, laughing into the chilly December air. We’d spent the last three hours at our friend Leo’s birthday party, a party that ended ten minutes ago. Now, both Alexa’s and Lauren’s parents are here so I walk with them outside. I haven’t called my mom yet.…

  • Run

    Jack hadn’t meant for it to happen, he hadn’t meant to kill the man. But the creep had been following him. In the woods. At night. At first Jack thought the guy was just lost. But then he’d turned around and there he was, in all his creepy glory, grinning like a maniac. It was…

  • Squash Casserole

    When I woke up this morning, my grandmother was dead. The night before she was in the hospital with heart failure. So today is her funeral, a quick thing thrown together on the day of her death. I think it’s too soon, but mom and dad want it over with- not because they didn’t love…