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Prologue Once Upon a Time: Nineteen years ago This ongoing nightmare always finds me at the worst of moments. It makes me relive the scariest moment in my life. I’m seven years old again. Crouched on my knees with my trembling hands digging into the dew covered grass. I peak around the bush I am hiding behind and my eyes frantically search for poppa. Instead they land on the back of a stranger, with what I believe to be a sword in his hands. I lock eyes with my poppa and his brown eyes widened with what I think is fear. He shoots me a look o...
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Everyday, it seems like you check your email like clock work. Always at the same time, multiple times a day. Sitting on your couch in your office, you glance through your email. Several store ads and online sales. Your mom, who sent you pictures of your niece and nephew reminding you that you aren’t even married yet. The blog of that famous celebrity you wish you were best friends with. And an unopened email that was sent 5 days ago. You notice that letter and it makes you stop in your tracks. You don’t understand how you can have an...
Submitted to Contest #46
Looking around, realizing I am climbing up some cliffs with a group of adventure seekers and I feel something strange brewing from underneath my feet. I freeze to look at the person there next to me, noticing the cliffs are floating away. Floating away they start disappearing. Standing there unable to move, I start recalling all the risks I didn’t take in my life. I am wondering if the choices I didn’t make would have led me on a different path, away from this one. I can feel my heart beating out of my chest, louder and louder. He reaches fo...
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