Image Credit: Pexels- Asad Photo Maldives I placed my phone in my back pocket, now burning with Mike’s phone number, and returned to the ladies still clamoring over the list of assigned bedding arrangements. I didn’t have to look at the piece of paper to know who my bunkmates were going to be. Rosanne shouted…

Image Credit: Pinterest- Lean Timpug Maddie has loved writing since she was a little girl, and once she got older, she decided to become a children’s book author. She loved writing fairy tales, mainly about princesses, princes, knights, dragons, unicorns, fairies, and mermaids. But this time, she was writing her first novel about a girl…

Image Credit: Pexels- Monica Silvestre Carrie had been waiting all year for this night to come round, and now that it was here, she couldn’t wait to get to London. She had purchased the ticket to see Jeff Dunham back in September as a cheer-up gift for herself, and now the day was here, she…

Image Source: Unsplash- Constant Loubier Saigon, 1969 Marianne Calloway was not what you’d call a war romantic. She hadn’t come to Vietnam looking for glory. She came because she was angry at the government, at herself, at God for sending her brother home in a sealed coffin two years earlier. When the Red Cross offered…

Image Source: dreamstime I was hoping this was going to be a quick drive to the lake, and we could get this weekend started. The only thing was, an hour and a half into the drive, I heard a loud pop on the right side of the vehicle that nearly scared the daylights out of…

Image Source: Pexels- Dayvison Tadeu Shawn is a teenage boy growing up in a wealthy family, comprising both parents and his 4-year-old sister. He was so privileged to have such a family. Though so, Shawn felt pressured and forced to live a very good life and be a well-mannered boy while his friends lived roughly,…

Image Source: Pexels- Ninari One summer morning in June, Brooklyn turned on her television to watch Gilmore Girls while drinking an iced coffee and eating a strawberry-frosted donut from Dunkin’ Donuts. She began getting very excited because later that morning, she and her boyfriend Max were going to the Sea Breeze Aquarium in Seaside, Florida.…

Image Source: Pexels- Javier Gonzalez It was 4:30 P.M. as I stepped out of my tiny house and started wandering down the path headed toward the wharf. The sun was setting; it felt peaceful in a way. Birds were chirping, and the air smelled like freshly mown grass through each light gust of wind. The…

The cover image was taken by David Mawdsley and it was found on Pexels. Image Source: Pinterest “from the secret diary of an unnamed heart” There was a girl not quite made of skin and time like the rest. She walked through the world quietly, like a whisper the wind had almost forgotten, trailing softness…

Image Source: Unsplash- Barry Johnson Pearl grew up in a less privileged family with many children, old and young, who she thought were all her siblings. One silly day, she overheard people talking about how much they felt sorry for her because her real mother might be living a good and fancy life somewhere else.…