Title: Haunted
Rating: 14-A
Preview: My family doesn’t know what happened that night. My parents think what Tim thinks: that he shot me down, and I just haven’t forgiven him. I wish he had shot me down. Then I could forgive him.
Word Count: 689
Title: The Lesser of Two Evils
Rating: PG
Preview: Ah, love, what a cruel, cruel emotion. One moment we’re floating through clouds of ecstasy, the next, those calm clouds have turned into a thunderstorm of anger and tears...Farewell, my darling, farwell.
Word Count: 441
Title: The Perfect Shoes
Rating: PG
Preview: She dragged me around for hours, forcing me to try on the clothes that no longer appealed to me. The buzz around me no longer gave me rush it once had. And I realized then how much damage that SUV had done. It had destroyed me.
Word Count: 392
Title: The End of the Familiar
Rating: PG
Preview: Grade 12. A year of endings and new beginnings. A time where you say goodbye to childhood friends and head off to university, or wherever it is you’re going. Me, I planned on traveling Europe for a year. I had had everything planned out for over a year; I knew exactly what cities I was going to, how much it would cost to fly there, and how much it would cost in total by the end of the year.
Word Count: 690
Title:Until My Last Breath
Rating: PG
Preview: The exhilaration of the race pumped through even me, standing amongst the sea of spectators. I waited anxiously for the first racer to round the corner. A figure clad in a yellow jersey rounded the corner and shakily, I stood from the lawn chair my mother had insisted upon bringing. The people around me were cheering him on, shouting his name.
Word Count: 1,070
Title:The Problem with Cancer
Rating: PG
Preview: She sat alone on the hard bed, underneath scratchy blankets, equipped only with a pen and a pad of paper. Her eyes itched with tiredness; her body ached from all of the needles. She wanted nothing more than to escape the appallingly hygienic hospital bed, but...that was absolutely impossible.
Word Count: 567