"Concentrate!!"

"I'm doing it as much as I can" 

" Look, you are new here so I'm going easy this time. I'm your mentor. You do as I say if you want to live, or you leave this room and never come back. Your choice."

He nodded. Although he hated it, he knew she was right. It was do or die. 

"Good. Now concentrate!! Focus your mind on the task at hand. Think about nothing else. Let's try again."

He did as he was told. He forgot about everything but the task at hand. After a few minutes, it seemed to work. The birds stopped flying, the leaves stopped rustling. Though it was only for a few seconds, he'd finally done it. 

He'd stopped time.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Mark was a normal kid. He thought he had the best life ever. He had everything. Loving grandparents who treated him as their own. Friends who were there for him wherever he needed. He never wished for anything more than what he had. He was happy.

All that changed when he met Claire. She was the kinda person who grows on you. She opened the path for him to a life he never knew was destined to have and he discovered that he was so much more than merely normal.

But now his secret is out and his life and the lives of those he loves are in danger. Now he has to choose between his family and his destiny and the fate of the world depends upon his choice.

Timeless Teenagers

She’d been scared of her own thoughts for as long as she could remember, doing everything in her power to make sure she wouldn’t have to think for long. Just when she thought she was over the fear, she’d be thrown right back to it by her dreams. 


Dreams scared her more than thoughts. Thoughts, she could somewhat control; dreams, not so much. They were always lurking, right outside her reach, ready to devour her the moment she showed any kind of weakness. And of course, Mark’s whole existence was one of her biggest weaknesses. 


Right now, she was back to when she first met Mark’s dad, Uncle Julian. He’d dropped by their house to give something to her mom when her dad was out. She remembered feeling relived he’d come when Dad wasn’t there but in hindsight, that was probably by design. They all knew what her dad was like, even if they pretended otherwise. 


Dreams that Haunt