When I was young, I would have dreams where it seemed like I was falling to my death from a high place. I would wake up mid-fall only to realize that I was asleep and it was only a dream. I would wake up with my heart trying to force …
It was still pitch dark and nothing had changed. Deafening cries for help could be heard outside our apartment room, alarming chaos rumbled around us but all I could do was stare at my husband of 5years. I met Richard one sunny afternoon. I remember it like it was yesterday …
I felt his body go taut. He put two fingers on his lips signalling me to stay quiet. I obliged. It rang again and again and again “M-m-miss Emma , h-h-help me”. Phoebe. Her voice sounded urgent and scared Richard only looked at me “I don’t know w-what’s happening, they’re …
Everyone turned to me but I could only point to the blood still seeping out. No one said anything, afraid of what it could mean. The door to the apartment creaked open slowly. My heart rate picked up speed, The whole scene could pass as living inside a horror movie. …
Everything went to shit that Thursday evening at exactly 9:15pm. The events of that day are etched into my memory, clear as day in my mind’s eye. I had spent the day at the doctor’s office, she told me I was going to have a baby. Elated, I set out …
My Alarm screamed rudely at me from the nightstand where it usually sat. “Shut it up” I mumbled to myself in my sleep. Realizing that no one was going to relieve my misery, I slapped the alarm off with force, killing the noise and sending it tumbling down the hard …