I finally told someone, said those words I promised I'd never let escape my bruised lips. The raucous laughter drew blood from my ears. My strings were cut and I found myself standing on my own, teetering on the edge with my toes curled tightly around the betrayal. I'll never fall, never let myself be pushed but sometimes it becomes too hard. My feet aren't hands. They don't grasp as hard as my...

This is what living in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere does to you. You go quietly crazy amongst the graves of the young. The old seem never ending but the young are easily expendable. Weed smoke haunts the air mingling with the laboured breaths of the forgotten few. Escapism is escape but freedom is gone.Our futures are predetermined by where we live. We all rage about not wanting to...

I finally understand what it means to be sad. What it feels to be breathless, watching everything run away from you down the same path you chose to follow. I didn’t see the crossroads, someone had kicked the signpost down. I dressed for the sun and didn’t bring an umbrella for the days when it rains.The dark used to be safe but now it brings the monsters under my bed and the shadows of evil on...