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It It was the first time I’d spent the night with Sage. We were eleven. Sage found his dad’s collection of VHS tapes and one labeled “It”. Curiously, as Sage always did, he popped it in and we watched the story unfold. I learned about monsters every day of my life. They didn’t scare me.…

beach The water was warm in the August sun. The sand was scorching under my feet. I swam into the ocean away from the world. A current took me under, it swept me out to sea. I kicked and screamed and swallowed the salty water. I am not a fish and the salt burned my…

cursed The scourge roamed the earth since time began and few hunters were courageous enough to find them and kill them. My name is Vladimir Bernstein, and I hunted vampires and other supernatural creatures. Until I hunted a rogue witch.  She didn’t appreciate it. When I had her cornered and about to make the slice…

Bully The blonde at the end of the hall hadn’t seen me yet. I slipped into the bathroom and breathed a sigh of relief, but it was interrupted when the door swung open and those dull blue eyes stared at me with a malicious grin. “You thought you’d get away?” There was no escaping it…

Apple Pie My mom wasn’t always so bad. I have one memory just before my spark. We were baking. Mom would measure out the ingredients. I poured them carefully into the bowl and stirred everything together.  Mom would roll out the dough and cut it into place while I bounced on the other side of…

T.O.N.Y. A fountain gurgled happily nearby as I stomped through the moonlit courtyard. A young boy with dusty brown hair swung a stick on the edge of the fountain. He slipped. I caught him before he splashed into the water below. His smile was bright. Even I had no choice but to return it. He…

The Hunger Freedom after 50 years. The first 25 I learned control. The second… the hunger grew. I walked through a village near my former home. The pulse of the villagers, the only sound I heard. The night blurred in a mixture of blood and hunger, torn out throats, and screams echoing on the dead…

Greatest Challenge Dreams are full of possibilities, but when a soul can manipulate them, there is a danger inherent in it. Death in a dream with a dream walker is real — forever real. And the law mandates death for any dreamwalker found. Tracking a dreamwalker was my greatest challenge, and today I found him.…

Choosing Death Being torn to pieces by a bear isn’t the worse way to die. I’d have preferred it. Lying in a hospital bed with your shit son by your bedside is worse. It was his fault we were in that den in the first place. I never would have led if he wasn’t a…

Controlled Accident Being 6 wasn’t any easier than 5 was. And here there were a lot more expectations. Control was important — especially for a firestarter. My teacher had peculiar methods — dreamscape torture to augment fear to control my power. Nearing my acceptance into the normal school day at the Academy, my teacher upped…

Meeting My Father “I’d like you to meet your father.” Dorian said. The door to his office opened and my fucking idol walked in. He stood in the doorway, glowering at me. “I don’t see why I have to be here, Dorian.” Kai said softly. “He’s 18. He’s graduating, and it’s time you both knew…

Meeting My Idol Everyone knew Kai Viddens as a great hunter. One of the best. I looked up to him. I spent the morning pacing around my room in the academy the day I was going to first meet him. It was a Saturday, my usual Saturday lunch to spend with Dorian and his family.…

Meeting Sage Every week I meet with Dr. Margo on Monday at 9:30 and I’m always early. Ms. Megan is usually the only one here, but today a boy sits in my spot on the couch. His dark blue eyes shimmer with tears. He moves to the other side of the couch. I sit down.…

Saving Abby The moon was full last night. The sun is high in the sky now. A mundane reported a larger-than-normal-wolf in Central Park — had to be a therian.  I am assigned a new mission — kill the wolf and cover it up.  But I won’t. Tracking the beast was easy. Not killing a…

Runaway Kids. I wasn’t ready for them, but that didn’t mean I didn’t have problems with them. Two kids. Both just like me. And Two moms. One an asshole, the other dead. My fucking life. Kid Numero Two came up on my radar again today. She ran away — again. She won’t talk to me…

Mythical brother Mother talks about our mythical brother all the time. How proud of him she is. Apparently she gets monthly reports and when she came back after his graduation she was grumpier than usual. We can’t live up to him. And now he’s home. But the moment he steps out of the Jeep, I…

Second Love Drowning in booze was no way to go out. Yet here I was in a fancy hotel bar in New York City, flirting with the bartender when she walks up wearing a black sequined yet elegant dress and bright red lipstick. Those big brown eyes and fake eyelashes called out to me. She…

Conceived Out of Love “Bound by Mother Earth herself, your souls are one.” Al’thea tied the thorny vine around their wrists and neither screamed in pain as the magic melded it with their skin — an undying bond bound with the match of the earth — forever and always. But the magic did not finish…

Saved By a Demon She was born different. They said she was possessed by demons. My little sister was the kindest, sweetest person alive, and they staked her out in the night to be taken by the wolves on the full moon. I begged and pleaded for them to reconsider. I’d take care of her.…

breakfast Five is hard. Everything is challenging — even breakfast. The bar stool wobbles as you stand on it to reach your favorite cereal. Your small hands pull at the unopened cereal bag until it pops open, sending kernels all over the kitchen. Milk splashes on the counter. But you did it! Mom comes home…

Blue-eyed Boy There once was a blue-eyed boy who visited my dreams. He never came with the same face, but I knew it was him. His voice and eyes never changed. One morning when I was six, I left him in the dream to go to school, but I fell asleep in class and when…