Adventure

Astral
The outside world was unknown to her— but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. His singular pain. Concentrated unbroken light. The Emerald city doesn't have that. Her world doesn't have that.
By Bridge Theory4 years ago in Fiction
A New Earth
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. Dead and dry earth stretched like tanned leather in every direction and crumbling skyscrapers dotted the horizon like broken teeth. The endless dust and ash swirled in a frenzied dervish across the cracked earth and clawed relentlessly at the crumbled remains of the dead city. Burned out cars, remnants of the life before, were spread like shattered carcasses to the low hills in the distance. The sun, now hidden for over a hundred years behind a thick blanket of choking ash, was nothing more than a faint pinprick of pale, cold light in the gloomy distance.
By Red Sonya4 years ago in Fiction
The Vigil
Josh had ventured out yesterday to forage for food and supplies. He returned with a meager haul in his satchel, and a bloodied left ankle. The cuff of his pants leg was shredded.
By Albert Alcoba4 years ago in Fiction
A ghost story for five teenagers
here is a ghost story for five teenagers: It was a dark and stormy night, and five teenagers were gathered around the campfire, telling ghost stories to each other. The wind howled through the trees, and the rain pounded against the ground, making it difficult to hear what anyone was saying.
By RAJA R4 years ago in Fiction
The last window children
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. She had lived her entire life in the same small, dingy room, with only the boy for company. The boy was her only friend, her only connection to the outside world.
By HermitsHouse4 years ago in Fiction
It Lurks Among the Pine
As I write this, the mountains seem so dark and damp from the freshly fallen snow; too early in the season to settle on the forest floor. Incandescent yellows and fiery orange leaves climb the mountainside in broad strokes among the primarily piney wood.
By Willow Cinders4 years ago in Fiction
The 5 worst movies of 2022 at the global box office
1. Amsterdam A horrendous film can exhaust. Or then again it tends to be paralyzingly, head-scratchingly WTF indistinguishable. Or on the other hand it tends to be capriciously irritating and in affection with that very part of itself. David O. Russell's peculiar disaster deals with the questionable qualification of being each of the three on the double. All along, as Christian Bale (in one fugly make-up evolution too far) and John David Washington natter at one another about a looming post-mortem because of reasons that altogether escape the crowd, the film apparently can't decide what's going on with it. Set in a 1930s America that seems as though it's under glass, "Amsterdam" uncovers Bale, Washington and Margot Robbie to be essential for the most un-sizzling of circles of drama — yet the genuine plot is about an endeavored fundamentalist takeover, which really occurred. When the film arrives, you wish that Russell could simply begin once again with that reality and trench the twee failure to discharge he made up.
By David Nwogu4 years ago in Fiction
The 5 greatest films of 2022 at the worldwide film industry
1) Top Gun: Maverick ($1.489bn / approx. €1.4bn) The widely praised inheritance continuation of Tony Scott's 1986 exemplary made the world reemerge the peril zone.
By David Nwogu4 years ago in Fiction
The Coolness of Reason
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. The room was my compartment on my personal jet. She laid across the bed and peered out. This was all foreign to Bonnie Clasman. The unfamiliar cloud patterns all signaled in her mind a difference from being on the ground looking up at them. She experienced a sensation of championing the skies, as an instrument of curiosity.
By Skyler Saunders4 years ago in Fiction
Behind The Cold Window
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. She couldn't believe how this world was a mess. Her name is Meg. She turned her head away from her father and his room. The girl just walked by in the hallway. She looked on both walls with many photos of herself as an infant to high school graduation. She also looked at the photo between herself and her parents, happy together. Then, she looked outside at that window again.
By Meghan LeVaughn 4 years ago in Fiction
Unknown but unafraid
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. She had always been curious about what lay beyond the walls of the crumbling building they called home. It had been their sanctuary for as long as she could remember, but now it felt like a prison.
By HermitsHouse4 years ago in Fiction
Escape to freedom
The outside world was unknown to her, but she could see a glimpse of it through the window in his room. She had never left the small, cramped apartment that she shared with her parents and younger brother. The government had strict rules about travel and personal freedom, and the punishment for breaking them was severe.
By HermitsHouse4 years ago in Fiction