Tuesday and Wednesday: 11/3/2021
Myiesha: “My dear Alexander Timothee James the fourth, it is way too late for another bedtime story.”
Felix: "Yes, yes!” a voice cried out. “I’ve done it! Transported a room through time, all with a simple canvas!”
Jacob: "I slowly opened my eyes as the dreadful tone of my alarm clock shattered my pleasant dreams of talking dogs and evil candy bars. In retrospect, maybe ‘weird’ is a better word to describe my dreams.
Ella: "Even though we have been preparing for something like this, we won’t be able to survive in these conditions forever, at some point we will run out of supplies."
Tuesday and Wednesday: 11/10/2021
Jacob: "As I stood on the edge of my roof, staring down at the cement walkway below, I contemplated my life’s decisions."
Sunny: "Quite fitting, the other walls told each other as it rarely replies, sulking around about something."
Myiesha: Without her here, the palace no longer feels warm or cozy. It has gone cold and dry, depressed and lonely.
Felix: The man fell back from the sheer force of her voice. And possibly her breath. The bagel had been garlic.
Tuesday and Wednesday: 11/17/2021
Jacob: "All Nancy Jeanne wanted was the joy of driving a blade through flesh, the thrill of watching the light go out of someone’s eyes."
Sunny: "Imagine all the the wonderful things I could do as a human."
Myiesha: "I slowly stop at the heavy gold plated doors, pondering whether or not I should step inside or flee South England altogether. Maybe going to the North would be a good idea. At least I would be with Iris, the thought running to my mind, but running away as instantly as it came when Bentley Bertrum opened the doors."
Felix: "He glanced behind him. A deep blue shirt poked out from under his green coat and his beige khakis hung loosely over his navy blue tube socks and leather shoes."
Ella: "She doesn't smile very often but when she does, he loves it."
Tuesday and Wednesday: 12/1/2021
Myiesha: "I was a stalker, she was a killer. The perfect duo."
Jacob: "His breath reeked of hard liquor, cigarettes, and death. The rest of him smelled the same."
Sunny: "An old man dreams, he dreams and dreams away."
Felix: "Everything was suddenly drenched in a torrent of knowledge."
Tuesday and Wednesday: 12/7-8/2021
Nishka:
Was the world created from perfection?
Or did it not have a clear direction?
Jack: "Dang, I did wake up on the wrong side of the bed."
Sachi: "The things upon the grains of sand."
Jacob: "Only, he wasn’t back at the shady backstreets. He was somewhere entirely different. "
Myiesha: "It was a silence so loud that I could hear those dreadful cries from my mother that I heard all throughout my childhood."
Sunny: "Famine and plague commonly broke out and the people were unhappy."
Samar: "Her forehead bled in cursive dripping on her hands and clothes “DEATH AWAITS YOU WILLOHAM.
Tuesday and Wednesday: 12/14-15/2021
Sachi: "All those years of living in the dark, or so they say. What really is the dark if I have never experienced the light?"
Nishka: "So many people had been saying to her, “I’m so sorry,” and her response was always the same. 'I wouldn’t be.'"
Jacob: "Theo scrambled to his feet, his heart hammering against his ribcage, like it wanted to break free and run."
Samar: “How stupidly wonderful,” she gritted through her teeth."
Sunny: "I turn my head to the sky, a blackish grayish sky."
Myiesha: "I gradually glance down at her button nose. It’s scrunched up and turning a fiery hue of pale perfection."
Felix: "His lips twisted into a sneer and his eyes squinted, creating an image like that of a frog croaking while simultaneously having a stroke."
Tuesday and Wednesday: 1/4-1/5/2022
Nishka: "I don’t know who I am, or what my purpose here is, but all I have to say is…I’m trying to find home on one side of the universe."
Jack: "That is as uncommon as spotting a 4-leaf clover!"
Jacob: "'C’mon ya wimp!' Bull hollered unhelpfully. “'It’s just a little slime! And the occasional corpse. Ha!'”
Samar: “Her dress seemed to be stained a red hue .The girl sat on the floor in a hunched position with a chain on her neck that seemed endless."
Sunny: "The pitch black room slides open and the ceiling disappears.¨
Ella: "As suddenly as it started, the storm just stopped."
Omer: "'You were born,' she pauses as if debating with herself whether or not she should answer. 'You were born with power. A power to control the human mind in ways unimagined.' She says, staring gravely at me. 'SO I HAVE SUPERPOWERS! COOL!' I scream enthusiastically."
Myiesha: "Everyone that knows me adores me. Why? Because I'm the king of the world, or to be more exact, the Prince of England next in line to be king if my dad would drop dead already."
Felix: "My parents kept calling it a 'nature hike.'”
Tuesday and Wednesday: 1/11-1/12/2022
Nishka: "I felt like it was staring into my soul, which was weird, because it had no eyes."
Omer: “You would be surprised how boring insane ladies super base is.”
Sunny: ¨Looking at him closer my brain somewhat recognizes him, but something tells me he is not my dad.¨
Samar: “Why is your face like a melon of water when cut?”
Ella: “It’s either me, your best friend, or being a witch. You can’t have both.”
Myiesha: “a knife, a small hand, and a creepy grin”
Jacob: "This wasn’t surprising, as Amy’s great-grandma’s house was filled with the weirdest paintings and sculptures that really stretched the definition of ‘art.’"
Tuesday and Wednesday: 1/18-1/19/2022
Nishka: "Well technically, he wasn’t logical. Who pushes a human off a cliff?"
Myiesha: "You'd look prettier if you smiled."
Jacob: "'Listen, Clean,' she said. 'This is important. If you mess up this code three times, there’s a hidden revolver in the wall that’ll blow your head open.' Theo decided that he should probably listen to the advice that would follow."
Omer: "I chuckle to myself imagining a branch sticking through the floor while you are trying to go to the bathroom. 'What's so funny?' Maritza asks me looking puzzled, her black eyebrows furrowed. 'I can just imagine going to the bathro-' I began, looking at her trying to stay serious. 'NOPE, you know what, never mind!' She interrupts. 'Ok jeez.' I say."
Sunny: "There is a thud plus a yowl, and my cat runs off, losing trust in me until I feed her again.¨
Samar: “Annabel screeched as her mark begin to itch. She scratched and scratched and scratched til her arm bled. The blood red oozed on her arm."
Tuesday and Wednesday:1/25-1/26/2022
Nishka:
"But eventually gains self-esteem
And comes back brighter than ever before"
Sachi: “The dust swirled around her as she walked and the sounds of the outside world receded to a quiet purr.”
Myiesha: “a knife, a small hand, and a creepy grin.”
Omer: “tears making wet warm paths on my cold icy face”
Jacob: "Finally, with a loud groan of rusted steel and lots of resistance, the handle swung around. This was followed by a loud BANG!, some squeaking and grinding, and eventually a trickle of water from the shower head.''
Samar: “Elidi said with a harsh blood curdling smile, ‘I never left.’”
Tuesday and Wednesday: 2/1-2/2/2022
Nishka: ‘“WHY ARE THESE LIGHTS SO SCINTILLATING?’ I screamed."
Sachi: “And there it was: The candle, the jacket, the river, and all.”
Myiesha: “I start walking a tad quicker. For some reason I’m keener to go home and figure out what’s pushing people to act like I'm some kind of sickness.”
Jacob:
"These people, they do not know,
the things this mask refuses to show,
the secrets it hides
behind those eyes blue as the tides.”
Sunny: “It flies looking, looking for the candle, the beacon of home.”
Samar: “Questions crept into her head. Where am I? Where did I go? What was I doing? Why am I here? It became apparent to her that something was covering her other eye so she directed her attention toward it. She tried taking off what was on it, but nothing was there. All she could see was a thick coat of black covering her left eye.”
Omer: “God I hate being short!”
Tuesday and Wednesday: 2/8-2/9/2022
Sachi: “You are like mercury, hiding on the bitter side of gold.”
Myiesha: “I sit there for a lengthy amount of time hearing myself breathe, scream, and wail.”
Jacob: "Captain navigated the underground passageways with ease, like she’d walked them a thousand times. The black revolver was holstered at her right hip, but her hand never strayed too far from its handle."
Samar: “Annabel hesitated with disgust as the piece of flesh was bubbling and oozing. As if it was alive.”
Omer: “I feel blood running down my bottom lip and wish that I could wipe it away with that awful woman’s shawl.”
Sunny:
“You remind me of
The moon on a cloudy night,
Radiant enough to shine through”
Tuesday 3/1/2022
Logan: “I fly away, chasing everyone else.”
Nishka: "As the zephyr blew calmly and quietly"
Savannah: “The crab ate the birds”
Sachi: “the rain in the house”
Lucas: “It was another day like any other”
Wednesday 3/2/2022
Samar: “Once upon a time is what you hear in fairy tales of some sort with princesses and poor birds who reside as their only friends subjected to countless hours of on and off blabbering. Yea it's not exactly the most pleasing thing.
Jacob: “Theo suddenly found it hard to breathe. His lungs desperately tried to pull in more air, but they couldn’t."
Sunny: They float in the cold waters as it is hard to fly, in these misty lands.
Ella: "I never got to say goodbye. That's why I needed to get closure."
Omer: “I wipe the side of my mouth when out of the corner of my eye I notice another black crow diving down at me, beak first like a knife thrown by an attacker.”
Myiesha: “Things were going smoothly until I heard a loud obnoxious screech. I wasn’t sure if the horrendous noise came from my mom, dad, or sister.”
Felix: “‘Ruvvians!’” he spat.
Tuesday 3/8/2022
Logan: “How do you know where I live?”
Nishka: "Humans wouldn’t be humans if they didn’t have skin, and mirrors wouldn’t be mirrors if they didn’t always show the truth."
Sachi: “Seriously, I thought, sitting on the warm ground.”
Lucas: “I say with tears running down my cheek.”
Wednesday 3/8/2022
Omer: “Aeolus. His blonde hair almost looks like a halo in the sun, compared to his pale skin.”
Samar: “You don't know my name and I don't want to know yours. I'm nothing but a pawn to you aren't I?”
Myiesha: “I hear the rain pour over her roars, and I think if only I could help.
Savannah: "I feel the ice cold water and I get goose bumps.”
Ella: "The next line read, ‘the day mom was executed, the weather was perfect.’"
Sunny: “Of course not, as all of you are blind.”
Jacob: "Its voice is said to be hollow and cold, like an echo reverberating off the rocks in a cave, the words’ speaker long dead."
and
"If you wish to travel to where you need most to go, just search for the Arch of Seven Worlds."
Tuesday 3/15/2022
Savannah: “Then my brother came and licked my face and then his tongue turned into a disco floor, and we partied all night.”
Nishka: "I have a talent for making things go wrong. I don't find trouble, trouble finds me."
Lucas: “I step out of the car and the cold hits me like a wall.”
Sachi: “What it must be like down there, safe in their own security.”
Wednesday 3/16/2022
Samar: “The memory drifts away like a dream, one of the father I never knew. A memory one has never forgotten.”
Omer: “Humanity is a threat.”
Sunny: “My tummy rumbles and I decide to have a snack.”
Jacob: "A little annoyed, I settled with peeing right on the floor. "
Myiesha: “She feels the laughter of the world stop. Life frozen. no movement. except from herself who she felt fade into the light.”
Tuesday 3/22/2022
Savannah: “The third was to kiss her mother's toes during dinner and she did.”
Nishka: "I reached into my pocket, and pulled out the last thing she had ever given me. It was a violet amethyst, my amulet. "
Logan: “...and then I saw them...”
Sachi: “She kept walking and walking, running her callused hand along the smooth iron rail.”
Wednesday 3/22/2022
Omer: "I never understood how such a beautifully crafted item cause so much harm and worry."
Myiesha: "no longer feeling any affection for someone you once loved"
Jacob: Her mother and father hugged her one last time, their bodies obscured by flowing red robes, trimmed with purple and gold, their faces covered by lifeless, expressionless white masks.
Sunny: "A warm breath escapes my lungs and my hand falls away from the amulet."
Samar: "Remembering the crunch of the Legos when I stepped on them. The scream I let out sounded by far like bloody murder."
Tuesday 3/29/2022
Savannah: "I don’t need a bed, a mattress, or a pillow."
Nishka: "If you ever change your mind and decide to talk to me again, I’ll be there, waiting. Forever."
Lucas: "I move slowly to the desk and realize I have never felt a greater sense of loneliness."
Wednesday 3/30/2022
Myiesha: "Not knowing what will happen to me in an hour shakes me to my core."
Ella: "I never stood a chance at being your friend, did I?"
Omer: “ME THE VILLAIN. OH TRUST ME IF I WERE THE VILLAIN THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD KNOW!”
Sunny: "But that’s not what I am here for."
Tuesday 4/5/2022
Nishka: "They bring hope and joy, but sometimes they fly away."
Sachi: “. . . the loud obnoxious chatter of human life.”
Wednesday 4/6/2022
Myiesha: "I snapped quickly out of my woolgathering. How long was I looking at her? Did she notice? "
Sunny: "I pick up my ax, look up at the redwood tree looming in front of me for one last time and raise my ax for the first strike."
Jacob: "Nobody knows where they came from, they all just rose up out of the soil one day."
Kyle: I didn't have any eyes but I could see that every other tree that used to surround and protect me, was gone."
Samar: “She pushes her glasses in an attempt to calm herself down. I look around to see no one on the bus.”
Tuesday 4/12/2022
Lucas: “As I'm falling, I am overwhelmed by a sense of loneliness.”
Nishka: I poured my heart and soul into our friendship, but it doesn’t work when you’re the only one holding on.
Savannah: That was the moment that I realized no one cared. That was the moment that I knew that I couldn’t stay on that farm and that I was going to hop over the fence and get free from ‘unt Maybells brutality.
Wednesday 4/13/2022
Samar: “I highly doubt seeing someone fall from a bus hanging 110 feet in the sky is normal.”
Kyle: “Opening a door further down the hall, a gush of cold wind hits Maria right in the face. She peeked into the room and saw shadow-like figures standing in the moonlight, with bright circles for eyes pointed directly at her.”
Sunny: “Even from this distance I could still see the flakiness of the red paint of the barn.”
Omer: “One school fight and one F on a test and it's off to the farm.”
Myiesha: “because truly, I don't remember what it is like to be okay.”
Jacob: “The roads were still formed of gray cobblestones intertwined with colorful moss. The buildings were much closer together, though, as the road was narrower.”
Tuesday 4/19/2022
Sachi: “. . . the rhythmic slap of his shoes on the concrete ground.”
Nishka: “Friendship is the greatest luxury you will ever have, but also the easiest one to lose.”
Lucas: “I silently cry as the footsteps echo down the stairs.”
Savannah: “When the cat comes inside it is satisfied by eating some real cat food.”
Wednesday 4/20/2022
Omer: “I had been praying to all the saints that I had been wrong and that I was brought here for a different reason.”
Sunny: “The cold winds of a chilly morning sting his uncovered cheeks as he pushes by crowds of people in a bustling city."
Jacob: "The Underground Committee of Artists did just that: create art and spread it throughout the streets of the Balkan Union."
Samar: “I try to think happy thoughts, the kind where you are with your friends or family and you feel that utter array of warmth and happiness. Oh wait… I don't have any friends or family.”
Myiesha: “Instead I form relationships with the characters in books. I idealize this romance and love in hopes it will fill my void in my heart, the voice in my head, telling me I will never be enough. I tell myself to not envy my old friends when I see them together having fun without me. I want to be liked, loved, seen, and heard. I want everyone to stop leaving, and I truly want to be someone’s number 1 but that isn’t realistic for a number 2.”
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Savannah: "That’s just how the government is, but I know what I saw."
Nishka: "It was like a staircase, except, when I had just managed to climb onto the first step, I had fallen off."
Sachi: “The swollen fire climbed the walls of the building,”
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Omer: “LANGUAGE!” Denis yells, nostrils flared, his face as red as a tomato.
Sunny: "Their barefoot feet callused and crusted with dried soil come to a stop as a soft hum fills the air."
Jacob: "Ana was the brain and Ivan was the braun. Both were skilled artists filled with hate for the Balkan Union and a passion for their craft. "
Felix: "I really don't like this, I thought."
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Savannah: "Then I shut up."
Sachi: “What is going on?" a voice whispered loudly, echoing through the passageway.
Nishka: "It was almost as if I could see the scintillating, shining blood inside of my body, slapping at my bones."
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Jacob: "As the archers saw the horses and men and iron bearing down on them they began to panic, tripping and stumbling as they scrambled desperately towards the safety of the Araluen phalanx. But they were far too slow."
Omer: “Hey Maya, here's the absolute last chance to turn around and go back….” Denis says, gesturing to the road back to our town. Home.
Sunny: "School is now closed as the lowlands are now flooded."
Myiesha: "As the only human in class i felt obligated to raise my hand."
Felix: "Lots of people call it 'writers block.' I like to call it the 'oh god my brain is melting and i have no idea what to do' area of creativity."
Tuesday and Wednesday, May 17-18, 2022
Nishka: "I have a bad history with those creatures, they can’t even talk! Last time I was in contact with a dog, it licked me all over."
Omer: "Her amber eyes flickered with unchecked anger."
Myiesha: "he would sit alone at bars lighting his cigars"
Jacob: "It was time for warfare to be changed forever."
Savannah: "Aribo was sent to Zobi’s dogs which means he probably died there.
Sunny: "I look at the umbrella stand next to the door and my eyes are drawn to a particular black umbrella."
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Sachi: "The person fingers the orange marble and asks, smiling, 'Is this yours?'"
Nishka: "For at the end of the day, you will blossom and become more beautiful"
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Omer: “I see insanity hasn't treated you very well, my old friend.”
Myiesha: "you can't love without pain"
Felix: "The Villains Code of Conduct"
Savannah: "As I examine the letter, it looks like it could be something out of Hogwarts."