Reversal Of Fortune
I was kidnapped from my bed when I was 9 years old. It was the middle of a summer night, my window was open and my parents were on the other side of the house…
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I was kidnapped from my bed when I was 9 years old. It was the middle of a summer night, my window was open and my parents were on the other side of the house…
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He couldn’t breathe. Her memories choked him and he struggled to wake up from his transcendental state. He grabbed his phone and frantically punched her number…
tried to run, but my shadow did not allow it. In what can be best described as a hand, he grabbed one by its “neck”, pulling it apart like a candy necklace…
to reconnect with that alley I had in my dream. I found it; well, not really found it, I seemed to know where it was all along. I got out of my car and stood…
kick in. my car begged for grip as I slowed to 80 mph in what seemed like a blink of an eye, i continued my downshift into 4th, the cranked my steering wheel…
driving at the speed I was, but surveying what I could using my ever adjusting night vision seemed to throw this idea out the window. Suddenly I saw them…
To me, as if to say everything is ok, I am here to protect you. My shadow, he, he had no eyes in the way a human does, simply circular orbs i can only describe…
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