Counting Days: Prologue
Sometimes there are some things you can do for friends, but there are things you can't do because your morals have to stay firm. I am dreaming or is it an illusion reality keeps giving me. Regardless I am unable to move in this cataclysm of fate....
Counting Days Chapter 1: Friendly Secrets
Chapter 1 Sounds of many people can be heard. A bell coming from every room indicated that school was finally out. Now is not the time for the meeting scheduled with schoolwork, it is the time for in-school, out of school, and extracurricular...
AMAHBC Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Ma’ Said There Wouldn’t be Days Like This I still remember her words to me, seconds before she passed away on that dreadful bed. “Zach, you’ve seen what war is like out of this country, Anthros are savages made for us humans to kill. They...
Counting Days Chapter 4: Kevin Clawburn
Chapter 4: Kevin Clawburn Dex just sits there with an ominous stare in his eyes, as if he saw death himself standing behind me. If he can sweat, he would be sweating a pool right now. He wouldn't even dare move from his chair, instead, he only...
Counting Days Chapter 3: Secrets Hurt
Chapter 3: Secrets Hurt It's 3:20 pm and Physics class has just ended. I tell Dex that we are going to the library to study for the Physics test before our semester finals slam stress and anxiety of failing into our heads. Dex elbows me...
AMAHBC Chapter 2
# Chapter 2 A Brief History Beep. Beep. Beep. I stretch my hand beyond my bed and I slam the alarm clock. I sit up and wipe my face with my hands, rubbing the sleep off. I slept pretty well last night. Stretching my body, I glimpse at the clock...
Counting Days Chapter 6: Not Alone
I re-adjust in my seat crossing my legs hearing James’ footsteps fade from my range of hearing. Funny, he usually does the father-son skit when he leaves. Then again it’s James, which really questions who is the mature one. My phone buzzes and I get a...
Counting Days Chapter 5: First Date
I wake up to the sun beaming in my eyes. My body wants to stay in bed, but my mind says, “It's time to get up, lazy." I stretch and yawn in response to my body agreeing to fully awaken. In the main room of the dorm, I hear someone clapping and...
AMAHBC Chapter 3: What makes Us Strong
Hope smiled and said, “Good, come along now, I'll show you to the kid's wing.". Hope opened the double doors that were opposite the hall that leads to the nursery. The doors opened up to another hallway, this time rather large. It was wide enough to...
Counting Days Chapter 2: Drinking on Campus
Chapter 2: Drinking on Campus I felt as though the atmosphere in the room darkened into a macabre mess of a psychological thriller from the 1960s when I read the last line in his journal. I could not have possibly seen it, yet the sign was staring...