The circus was like nothing I had seen before. Bright blue and yellow striped tents that looked like they had grown right out of the ground. I don’t remember the circus announcing their arrival, or even them setting up. It just appeared in the large open field at the edge of the woods one day, and the town accepted it. I was in seventh grade and with my mother at the time, supposedly enjoying my fall break. But I was a twelve year old boy in a dusty old town that I didn’t hav

In the vast, perpetual web of space, beyond our galaxy and all those known, a little axolotl named Sammy floated along. Unlike Earth’s axolotls, Sammy explored the petrifying emptiness of the unknown. Alone in the stars, he drifted for lightyears; just a webbed-foot pioneer, sailing the seas of the cosmos. His shimmering pink gills rolled as he traveled like waves, the small blue on his body, a reflection of the galaxies he roamed. Galaxies that made this tiny salamander even

High, way above the swaying sea, a lone bird soared, her tan wings slicing through salty sea air, like a well-engineered sail, with unwavering determination. Her light feathers floating in the winds and shining in the warm sunlight, reflecting rays of gold and ultramarine as she levitated in the air. Yet, as she floated, each beat of her wings began to weigh down heavier. Below, the never-ending expanse of water, a glittery curtain of blue that seemed to swallow the horizon.

Fourteen-year-old Goody Moubray was in the woods. Why? She didn’t know. The trees around her loomed overhead, their branches clawing at the sky with skeletal limbs. The air was heavy and damp, and the ground soft and mushy with moss and decaying leaves. She looked around slowly, circling the area with a sense of caution at the unfamiliarity. She walked slowly. No trail. No sound. No sign of home. She remembered her town, Birch Hollow, small and warm, tucked away between rolli

“Will that be all, your majesty?” The scribe says after safely tucking the scroll under his arm and securing the pen to his hat. “Yes, I...

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Ida B. Wells was born on July 16, 1862 to James Wells and Elizabeth Warrenton, Black slaves who were freed during the Emancipation...

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Dear Helene, You had your time to thrash about, And, my oh my, do you like to pout. Just like an infant you are, To make a mess of my...

In 1932, at the age of ten, I decided to join the medical field and be a doctor. In 1966, I took the life of my last victim and of a...

Mary should have been home four hours ago. Her father will be home if he isn’t already there, to find his wife missing and his parents...

I want so desperately to weigh my guilt on a scale of punishment; to torment myself, to make my mind unsafe to live. If only I could...

All I could do was watch, stare, study. The Victorian sat on the corner of a small intersection with sidewalks trimming the edges. The...

Life is fragile. I know this to be true because I have seen so many shatter, and have been the cause of shattering. I watch. I study. I...

In the early summer month of June, just before the spring weather melted away, the cherry tree in the corner of my yard bore fruit. Small...

“Maid!” Damselle screams from her bedroom. A young female servant scurries into her room, bowing low once she reaches the princess. The...