Monster. A large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature. Monster. A thing of extraordinary or daunting size. Monster. An inhumanly...

I enter my dark bedroom and lay down on my bed. A place that normally feels peaceful and calm is now the heart of my stress and anxiety....

There are some thing you just can’t fix. In the fairytales of my childhood there was always a happy ending. Where there was a damsel in...

I wasn’t very old when I realized it was time for me to grow up. When I was a child, my best friend in the entire world was Daisy. Her...

“I'm so nervous, I want to kill myself”, she told me as I passed by. At first, I thought she was joking. Today, the overused phrase makes...

On a cool Sunday afternoon, last November, I decided I had procrastinated long enough: it was finally time I submit my university...

December 10th, 2017. Who knew this was the day my life would change forever. The day that started a life of regret and pain. The reason I...

It was the summer before grade 10, we had been at the shelter for a week, and mom had to go back to work. I wasn’t allowed to be at the...

Fear is a powerful emotion; it can take hold of a person, overcoming them with its iron grip. As far as emotions go, fear is the most...

Do you know that nagging feeling deep in your gut? That feeling when you’re going on a trip and it gnaws at you like you’re forgetting...

Every day I see that stop sign. As I get closer my grip tightens and my eyes target the rear view mirror. I start rolling forward towards...

I stood there. Hands outstretched, holding the body of a lifeless creature. Its eyes held my gaze. A dead abyss of nothingness. Eyes so...

Loneliness lingers as I see myself, standing on the edge, frozen like an iceberg with a ship fast approaching. My soul sinks as I look...

The two dark red stage curtains opened revealing a dreadful looking wooden marionette standing in the middle of a stage. The marionette...

Although my grandmother lived on the other side of the world, she made it her priority to visit us at least once every year. The year I...

She was just like a gentle, beautiful, bright flower. She brought joy and happiness. She tried to stay strong for others. However, things...

As Charles Lee once said: “No one, especially not you, can change an entire universe's purpose at the drop of a dramatic speech. Like the...

“Once upon a time,” is a phrase that thrilled my ears when I was a kid. Tucked in a sea of blankets, clinging to my favourite stuffed...

The time is 6:33 AM. Groggily, he rubs the crumbs of sleep from his eyes and sets his bare feet on the floor. His closet. A mess, really,...

After wandering around a foreign city for what felt like a lifetime, we finally stumbled upon what we had been looking for. What at first...