Oct. 3, 2023
Episode Nine - Don't Look
For this story, I took a cue from riding a roller coaster. I was so afraid when I was riding it that I kept my eyes shut during the entire ride. Afterward, I thought of how it felt to be afraid and shutting out the world. I started thinking, what if someone was so traumatized by an event that they never opened their eyes?
Predicting the Unknown
Howard wiped the sweat off his deeply wrinkled forehead. The sun beamed down on his thinning scalp mercilessly as he tried to prune the tomato plants he had growing on his acreage. His crew had missed a few of them, and so he pruned the sucklings fr…
Live Like a Human Again Part Two
Lena opened her eyes. Her left lid drooped, and she could see through a squint. She searched her environment, which was both familiar and unfamiliar. It was a bedroom; it wasn’t hers, yet she knew who it belonged to. Lena tried to lift her bod…
