Lily's eyes were half-mast by the time she reached her dorm. Class may have ended early, but she may as well have been a zombie. Shuffling inside, she greeted her roommates half-heartedly. As usual, there was a huge mess in the kitchen and the common living area, but she decided to wait until morning to gripe about it. For now, hitting the hay was the only thing on her mind.
Springing for a single bedroom may have hurt her wallet at the beginning of term, but not having to share her personal space definitely paid off. She unlocked her door and shouldered her way inside, flipping on the light and dropping her backpack into a heap on the floor
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Literature
An Extra Roommate ~ 11
Isolation
Cassandra’s wrists built resilience against the tightness of the thread bonds, as did her vision to the darkness. The familiar smell of wood and concrete within the structure of the dormitory might have been comforting if she were living there of her own accord. But she shared the darkness with Vince.
Shared. Such a pretty and inaccurate word.
He talked to her. Sometimes he berated her for missing her human friends, and sometimes he tried to speak as if everything was back to the way the way it was, before he had abandoned her and she had met Lily. Slowly, it became more of the latter, as if he was trying to ease her back i
"Good… n-night?"
Jon perked up, eyes drawn to the tiny, unsure voice that came from beside his laptop. Sylvia stood there, threading her fingers. She pursed her lips, giving Jon a questioning raise of her eyebrows.
"You're getting better," he remarked, pulling his hand away from the keyboard.
Recognizing his words as praise, she bounced on her feet and let out a small whoop of triumph that made a grin spread across Jon's face. Try as he might, he could never ignore the fluttering in his chest when she beamed at him. Her excitement from retaining words was contagious.
"Jon," she said, crossing her arms expectantly and strolling direc
10. Go away! I'm too big! by Lost-in-Legends, literature
Literature
10. Go away! I'm too big!
“Go away! I'm too big. I might hurt you.”
Livia felt her bones shake, her teeth feeling like they might rattle right out of her skull with the low tone rumbling through her. It was frightening...but thrilling.
The words were powerful beyond belief and almost seemed to be a force of nature more than an actual voice.
It was like hearing an earthquake speak. Or what she imagined that might sound like.
It probably felt the same as well.
The small elf swallowed hard, but didn't move from her perch on the cliffside, remaining crouched there with her boots firmly planted against the stone so she wouldn't slide and fall.
“I'm
The Little Things in Life: Ch. 1 by Melrosie, literature
Literature
The Little Things in Life: Ch. 1
Claire felt her chest rise and fall as she stepped into the dinning room where her aunt and her haughty friends were talking and sipping tea. The smell of cinnamon and fresh lemon danced in the air with the strong stench of perfume coming from the long mahogany dinning table. The sheen of the table only reflected her bubbling feelings of pure joy. But she dreaded the idea of speaking to those women who held themselves in such high regard that you could taste the bitterness in the aurora around them.
"Auntie Meg?" Claire murmured as she stepped into the splendid room of magnificent decor and richly
GT Short: The Giant In The Parkinglot 1 by Hbpenart, literature
Literature
GT Short: The Giant In The Parkinglot 1
-----I sat on Erika's couch by the window, typing an amateurs story into my iPhone notes. The living room that stretched into the kitchen at the back of the apartment was dim and only lit by the afternoon light shining through the open blinds. The room didn't feel dark though because the rickety blinds had been closed all day until about thirty minutes ago when I had laid Evan down for a nap in his moms room down the hallway. It was silent save for the quiet humming of the fridge at the back of the room, the distant shouts of children, and the bell of the ice-cream man, chiming incessantly as he rolled his cart along the fronts of the apartme