Morning comes as the sun rises, shining light on my face. Its warmth brings me comfort as I come to my senses. Of course, the real thing that wakes me up is the alarming voice of someone familiar.
“Up and at ‘em, loser! Get your butt out of bed!”
I open my eyes to see no one other than K...
We pull into a large parking lot. A small motel is garnished with vines, dirt, and filth. Not the best motel that I’ve ever seen. Of course, I say that like any motel is reasonably sanitary.
“We’re here,” the driver says. Lucas helps me out of the van as Mr. Burns follows me.
“Thanks...
I stand up, ready for the new day to arrive and embrace me with its warm fingertips. My face is cool, and the wind is whipping through my hair. I run, though I don’t know why or where. All I know is the present.
No past, no future. I am nothingness. Like a shadow that vaporizes in the light. I kn...
I amble my way to the second door on the left. It’s my English III class. My teacher, Ms. Madden, stands impatiently at the door, tapping her left foot with her legs crossed.
“Hello, Gloria,” I say with the nicest voice.
“Shay,” she replies with a dark, menacing tone. “It isn’t v...
The period slowly drifts on slower than a melting stick of butter down a hill. After what seemed to be years in this hell-like room, the bell finally gives off a loud ring, signaling that it is time to move on to 3rd period. In other words, English III.
Luckily we are given a long break between ...
Chapter One
Hello, dear reader. My name is Shay Elizabeth White, and I am the writer of the Codex of Ultimatum.
I cannot tell you why I am, nor can I explain how I got here.
What I know is in this collection of books.
If you came here to read a story about some fantasy adventure with f...
I am enclosed in Darkness.
I am isolated.
Entrapped.
A key dangles
By a single thread
Above me.
I can not reach it.
"Forgiveness" is its name.
Why must this key
Be the only savior
For their mistakes?
I reach for the key.
But it fades in my hands.
For I am too late.
I wail
As...
I am falling.
Falling into light.
Brightness surrounds me.
I am cold.
I see whiteness,
Like sheep's wool.
I softly land upon the light.
My head is cold.
The brightness mixes with
The blue sky.
Rose petals blanket me.
The petals mix with the purity.
I am warm.
And, for a moment --
...
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“Guilty!” The gavel hit its pedestal with a loud bang that almost broke the desk. I lowered my head in defeat. Dr. Miller flung his papers on the floor. His face was scarlet, ready to throw all the insults he could think of under the sun at the jury.
“It was from his self-defense! ...
I have been alive for almost a thousand years, but even now I still cannot fathom why that boy requested his immortality. It seems strange to me how the world is against me. Even the entire council of the V.E. wants to kill me; even I know it, though they are stopped by my father, Dr. Jonah Miller, ...
“Password?”
I looked through the holes in the wooden plank that seemed to be considered a door. Three coatmen were sitting on one of the two leather couches. Each had a hood covering their emotionless faces. I grinned.
“Silence is golden.”
The Passkeeper plastered an unreal and male...
Cold wind brushed my hair on the dark intersection. A street lamp was flickering on and off near the tainted STOP sign. To the right of me was Lake Parlor, and to the left was a dense, uncharted forest. I was alone on the dirt road, waiting aimlessly for a passerby. I looked upward and reached for t...
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