DouglasVorke

He sat on the old mossy rock as the city slept peacefully below him. The lights from the numerous windows and LCD screens speared up into the sky, like search lights looking for something high above. The lack of noise that was coming from below him was at odds for once to the forest behind him, the creatures who lived there making their usual calls before settling down to another peaceful night. He smiled, amazed at the silence that was around him. Having lived in the city all his life, he rarely knew silence. In fact, he had thought of silence as a bad thing for most of his life until recently. He chuckled at how naive he had been back then,

The cold pouring rain hammered into her pale, freckled face as she stood underneath the bus shelter, each individual raindrop stinging painfully as it caught her cheeks. Above her, she could see that the usual starry sky was instead covered in pure darkness intermittently broken by the sharp flash of lightening coursing across it. Brushing her long black hair out of her eyes, she pulled her massive trench coat tighter around her swollen form in a desperate attempt to keep herself and her precious cargo warm and protected from the elements that were battering the shelter and her face. As she yet again wiped the water from her eyes which had d

As he saw her message, he smiled. Not in happiness which he regularly did when messaging her, but in bitter twisted irony. On the outside he laughed, nearly loud enough to wake his mother, but inside, he cried. Tears burning with the heat of molten lava slowly coursed across his battered and bruised heart, adding new and raw scars to the multitude of ones that covered it like a patchwork. Rubbing his temples, he felt all the dreams, hopes and asperations he had for them both burn away like an inferno, each dream that he had of her dying in a red/orange tinge in his mind`s eye. Thinking back to the past memories that he had with her, all those