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Home Sweet Home
It was a strange little house, but I’d always loved it. My favourite part was the window in the attic. I’d sneak up there just before dawn broke every morning and watch the sunlight pouring into the dark space, cleansing every inch of it until it shone all around me. I’d lay down on the…
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High Anxiety
The alarm went off and she jumped with a start. She fumbled for her phone in the darkness, hearing it clatter to the floor, and almost following it down to the soft carpet before steadying herself on the bedside table. It was quarter past three, according to Lindsay’s alarm clock, and the alarm that filled…
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Miss Kiss
Miss Kiss is a very bad girl. She never wanted to be bad at first but she see her big brothers being so bad that she not know another way to be… so now, she a very, very bad girl. She is the very best bad girl that she can be. She make the whole…
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Safe and Sound
He tried to open the door, so I shot him. He staggered back, falling off of the ladder, his face frozen in horror, staring up at me, still and silent. I was alone. The scarlet stain spread across his once clean, white shirt, pooling on the floor around his body. He was dead. Nothing could…
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Safe and Sound – Part Two
I must have fallen asleep at some point, and I woke to Dad shaking me and shouting. He was convinced someone was in the shelter with us. Shouting about Mary, about Mum, pointing at the door, the bathroom, under the beds. It was chaos. I got out of bed, trying to calm him down, or…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 