Series Wednesday: Timetopia page 16

                We walk out past the stream with the darkness all around us. “I’m not sure about this.” Rev tells me. “We don’t know what’s out there…or what kind of animals. We should wait until it’s lighter out so we can at least see what we are up against.” Rev has fear in her voice. “Did you ever go camping as a child?” She laughs. “No I grew up in the Bronx, it isn’t like that, its cement jungle, so no forest to camp in. Not that I would go anyways.” I laugh at her. Rev the fearless, doesn’t like the woods. “It’s like my mom always told me, the monsters under your bed are only as big as you let them be.” I smile at her and keep walking. “Oh now you want to be the brave one.. I see you.” I look at her and laugh. “Of course you can see me, I’m right in front of you.”  She sighs at me and rolls her eyes.

                We head far past the stream, deep into the forest. The sun is coming up above the trees. I have always loved the sunrise. I stop to watch the sun come up as the reds and blues mix in the sky.  Rev pulls my arm. “There is a cabin over there.” She points to the right and starts heading that way. I run to catch up to her. We walk up to the cabin with me in front of Rev.  I can’t wait to just lay down after walking all night, I am so sleepy. A man comes out of nowhere and he has a long metal branch in his hand. “Stop right where you are. Turn around and go back the way you came.” I turn to look back and Rev isn’t behind me anymore. “I’m sorry sir I can’t go back.” He looks at me for a second and steps toward me. He still has the metal branch in his hand. “I’m sorry if you can’t got back. But you can’t stay here. You have stopped moving for too long already.” He says as he looks around in fear. I think he is worried about the tracker that I don’t have. I see Rev walking up behind him. “If you’re worried about someone following us here, don’t. We don’t have trackers.” He looks at me and I turn and lift up my hair for him to see that I don’t have a barcode. “Wait that’s not possible. Did you say we?” As I turn back around, Rev grabs the metal branch and smacks him in the face with it. He falls to the ground, she puts her boot on his throat and points the metal branch at his head. “Yes, she said we.”

                Rev makes a weird sound with the metal branch. The mans’ eyes widen. “You know how to use it.” He seems shocked. “Yes I know how to use a shot gun. So why don’t you tell me where you got it from.” Rev is stepping harder on his throat when he doesn’t say anything. “Rev stop!”  Rev doesn’t listen to me but eases up on his throat. “I made it. I make all the guns for Timetopia.” Rev takes her foot off of his throat.  He makes the guns? How is this man not erased? Rev looks at me. “What do you want to do now?” she asks me. I look at him, “Sir we mean you no harm. Ron sent us here when he seen I didn’t have a barcode. The people at the Switch festival started to drop and he got us out.” The man motions for Rev to move her boot so he can sit up. “Ron sent you… I forgot the switch happens tonight. By any chance do you know who is switching over?” I shake my head no. “So you need a place to stay?” He asks me, not even looking at Rev. “Yes just until they open the roads and we can leave.” He smiles. “If Ron risked his life to get you here, and getting you out of the Switch festival is him risking his life, you must be very special. So you can stay here.” Rev lowers the shot gun as she calls it. He gets up and we all walk to his house. His front door had no lock on it, but there was a black panel on the wall right next to the door. He puts his hand on the panel and the door opens. “Biometric lock.” Rev says to me.

                We walk in and the cabin has so many rooms.  I have never seen so many rooms for one person,  maybe he has a family. “You can pick a room. You both look beat. I have some questions, but they can wait.” He points toward one of the hallways with 3 rooms down it. Rev walks down the hallway and I follow her. I walk into one of the rooms, Rev follows me in. “Do you remember what I showed you?” She hands me the gun. “Yes I remember but I don’t think I’ll need it.” She laughs. “You never know. I still have the shot gun, so I’m good. Just sleep with it next to you okay? Let me know when you’re awake.” She leaves my room. The bed in here is one of the biggest beds I have ever seen and the blanket so fluffy. I lay in the sheets and I feel so warm and safe. I wonder what questions he’s going to ask us tomorrow. 

Lets Question the world around us

Hey everyone,
       Do you ever feel like you see things a tad bit differently then others. I know i have always felt like that. I have always felt like the way my mind processes the world was very different then my peers. For me to understand what i am looking at I have to question it. I'm not sure what but this is always how my mind has worked. So I wrote a short story book doing just that. Three fictional stories that make you question what is really happening. I often think life is much like a labyrinth, we think we know what we are looking at but it often changes on us. If you feel the same. Be sure to pick up my book and tell me what you think. Tell me your answers or even your questions. Thank you all for reading. The Labyrinth of thought. Are you ready to question things?

Happy Holidays!: Timetopia page 15

                I get ready for the festival then Rev and I head out to the town square. Rev watches as all the kids and pregnant women and voluntaries go into a library. “Why do the kids go that way?”  Rev asks as she points at the kids. “They are too young to enjoy the festival. The festival is all about letting go and having fun. It is our time to let loose without worry. The pregnant can’t drink so they watch over the kids.” I explain to Rev and she tilts her head. “So they protect the kids and pregnant women from the drunks.” I smile at her. “Yes pretty much.” She scrunches her nose. “Well that one I can agree with.” We both laugh. They scan our wristbands so we can get into the area. The bonfire is already lit up and people are eating and drinking already. “Is that deep fried ice cream?” I smile at Rev. “Yes it is!” We both run over there. “So let me get this straight they don’t let you eat these things all the time except for here?” I laugh, “Of course if we always had these things we would be fat. It’s super unhealthy to eat this kind of food.” The servers walk about with drinks on their trays.

                “So what kind of drinks do we have here?” Rev asks as she grab one off the tray. I start to wander around to all the different food stands. I get a taco and some food that was once called southern comfort. I grab a cranberry and vodka and go to find somewhere to sit and eat. Rev walks up with fried ice-cream and a mug of beer in her hand.  We cheer our drinks and then eat and drink up. The music starts and people begin dancing around the fire. I get up to dance with them while Rev goes to grab more to drink. I think I am 3 drinks in. I feel so light and free, I am dancing around the fire. I love the way the flames’ warmth feels on my skin. I see Ron walking around with the tray of drinks, he looks so cute and I just want to talk to him. I walk up to grab another drink. I smile at Ron as I reach for a drink. “Don’t drink it Ava. Go to the bush and pretend to drop your drink but DO NOT drink this round. Do your hear me?” Ron whispers to me. I am lost why doesn’t he want me to have fun. “Ron why?” He looks around. “Please just trust me. You and your friend need to get out of here. I know you don’t have a barcode. If they figure it out… I can’t help you. Just don’t drink it and find your friend. I’ll find you in a bit to get you out of here.” Ron hurries away. I start to look for Rev as she runs right up to me. “Don’t drink that. There is a roofy in there.” She throws the drink down. “What is a roofy? Ron just told me not to drink anymore and that we need to get out of here.” She looks around. “Roofy is a drug that puts you to sleep. Where did Ron take off to? I had a bad feeling about this. Let’s just leave.” I shake my head. “We can’t. No one is allowed to leave until the switch is over. That is why our wristband is used to check us in. They tell the  wellness checkers if anyone is not accounted for. If someone’s missing, the wellness checkers will go looking for them.” Rev takes a deep breath. “Okay… Well we have to do something. Wait didn’t you say you didn’t make it the whole time last year?” I nod yes. My mom made me promise not to tell anyone about last year. It could’ve got all of us in a lot of trouble. “Well what happened exactly?” Rev asks me. She motions with her hand up for me to hurry with my story. I sigh, but my mom did send Rev to help me. “I had two drinks and I couldn’t even finish the second one I just started throwing up uncontrollably. So my mom convinced one of the Wellness checkers to sneak us out. Since our wristbands were scanned in, no one came looking for us.”  Rev looks around and I see her mouth drop, so I follow her eyes to see what she’s looking at.

                I see people starting to drop. They are just hitting the floor, I don’t understand what’s happening. I step forward to go help one of them when Rev grabs me. “Don’t, they are okay I promise. The drug is just making them go to sleep.”  I see Ron running up to us. “You have to go now.” He grabs me by the hand with Rev right behind us. He puts scientist wristbands on us. We are able walk past the wellness checkers. I look back at the peoples bodies just hitting the floor. Rev says they are sleeping but some look dead. Ron take us back to the visiting center. “Pack your stuff fast.” He tells us as he looks around. We run to our room. Packing what little we have. “Why is he helping us?” Rev demanding an answer from me. “How am I supposed to know?” I throw on my back pack and run back outside. Rev pulls out the metal handle on him. “Why are you helping us?” He stops moving. “What is that and why are your pointing it at me?” I think Rev just remember to us the word gun as she calls it means nothing. “It’s a gun. Oh good grief. How come these wristbands got us out?” She puts the gun away. “The festival is where the scientists test on the people.” WHAT! The scientists test on us? “If you’re a scientist why do you work at the visiting center?” He stares at her. Anyone from Timetopia would already know that answer. “He has to. The scientists have to work at every job in the community to truly understand how important our system is. So as they come up with new things for our community they will know what the community needs.” I explain to her. “Look, we don’t have time for this. We got orders from the coming Five to not only give the normal virus and test the people who we gave them to last year, but to also take extra blood and test everyone’s DNA. With you both not having barcodes I feel like it wouldn’t be a good idea for them to have your DNA.” Rev smiles. “Thank you, but you’re right so we need to get out of the city.” Rev tells him. I am in shock they give virse at the festival. “You can’t leave until the roads open up in 2 days, but I have a friend outside of the city past the stream. He is just like you with no barcode.” Wait, there is someone else without a barcode? “How far past the stream?” Rev asked. “I’m not sure, I have never been to his house, but I have a barcode so he won’t let me go. I can be tracked, but if you tell him I sent you he will help you.” Rev looks at me, I nod yes. We start heading toward the forest. I see wellness checkers not too far behind us. “Just get to his house and you will be fine.” Ron walks toward the wellness checkers as we sneak away. I wonder if I will ever see him again. 

Series Wednesday: Timetopia page 14

                I am back at the room, still no sign of Rev.  I pace back and forth for what seems like hours.  What if I am in the wrong place? I need to know where that phrase came from. How did Charles know a phrase I have only ever heard from Rev? Can I trust her? Can I trust him? I hear a thud from behind me, I turn around and there is Rev on the floor. “Oh I hate that!” She gets up and run to the bathroom. I hear her throwing up. I sit here waiting for her. I am looking at the watch…Should I tell her about it? She walks out of the bathroom. “Which one of The Five pulled me out of time like that? How long was I gone for?” Rev is looking to me for answers. “How do you know you were pulled out of time?” She laughs as she drinks some water. “Which one was it Ava?” Why doesn’t anyone answer my questions? I am done with people not answering my questions. “Rev, how did you get to Timetopia?” she rolls her eyes at me. “It’s a long story but your mom brought me here.” I stop breathing. Everything seems to lead back to my mom. “Charles is the one who pulled you out of time.” She turns her head. “Which one is he?” I walk over to the table with the history book on it and open it to show her a picture of him. She looks at it and flips through the history book. “I need you to tell me about The Five. Everything you know.” She sits down at the table and points to the chair across from her. I sit down and take the history book back and open it. “There was once a great war. Five scientists lost everything in the war, so they built a time machine.” Before I could finish reading, Rev is waving her hand up in the air, “Stop stop stop. If I wanted to read the history book I would. I need to know the gossip and the things only someone who grew up here would know.”  I am not sure what gossip is. There is nothing I know that isn’t in the history books. I just sit there because I am not sure what she wants.

                “Rev, I’m not sure what you want? Everything I know is from history books and videos at the library.” She sits there and tilts her head. “Who is the cutest of The Five?” I smile “Charles” she laughs, “And who is the one with the green thumb?”  Well that’s easy, “Erick.” She has a big smile like I am answering right. “That is the kind of thing that I need to know, the stuff that isn’t in the books.” Oh I get what she is saying I think. “Charles is the one girls hide pictures of. He is said to be the most charming. Kora is the mother of Timetopia out of The Five. It was said to be her idea to go back and change things. Erick is the fountain of Timetopia. He is the reason for the way our houses are structured and laid out.” Rev puts her hand out for me to stop talking. I hear steps outside of our door. Rev grabs her knife and starts moving toward the door. Someone starts knocking at the door.

                Rev opens the door and there is Ron standing there. “Good evening. I have to do a head count before the Switch Festival tonight.” He smiles. Rev doesn’t know how this works. He is here to make sure everyone is accounted for. He needs to ask these questions for the festival. “Of course come on in.” I smile, trying to give a hint to Rev that this is normal. Rev lets him in and he smiles “Are both of you over 16?” Rev tilts her head. “Yes of course.” He laughs “I have to ask. Are either of you pregnant?” I look at Rev. She gives me a weird look. “Are you pregnant?” She asks me. “No! I’m not married.” Rev tilts her head at me. “So there is your answer. No one is pregnant.”  She smiles at him. “Do either of you have any heart conditions?” I shake my head, no. Rev’s face looks lost. Ron smiles and hands us the wristbands for the switch festival. “I can’t wait to see you out there.” He looks right at me as he says it. He gets up and walks out the door. “So I’m guessing not only do we have to go to this thing, you also now want to go.” Rev says as she sits down. “You don’t understand, the switch festival is the funnest day of the year. So yes, I really want to go.” I sit and think of last years festival with my mom. I didn’t even make it through the night.  Tears start coming out of my eyes. “What’s wrong?” Rev asks. “I went last year with my mom. That’s all. This year I don’t have my mom or dad to go with.” Rev get up and hugs me. “Well then we just have to make this one very memorable switch festival then, wont we.”  I smile at her with a huge smile. “Yes, we most definitely will.” 

Random Short story: Siren lost on land

     Land has always been a dream of mine. Growing up here in the sea isn't a treat like some might think. How ever my mom always said terrible things would happen if I left the sea. The land creators would fear me. I don't care, I am sick of this wet life. The sailors always seem to love when we sing to them. Some of them loved it so much they would jump in water with us. It  never ended well for them. That is beside the point. I have decide to live on land.
     I swam as fast as i can to the edge where the water meets the land. I see the white sands. I stop and pull my self up to shore. Now according to legend I shouldn't have to do to much more. Just lay here until i dry out and leg will simply sprout out. I fell asleep on the nice warm sands. When I woke up there standing above me was a man. "Miss this is not that kind of beach. You need at least a bikini." i look down as my self and legs I have. I stand on them and look around every other person it covered unlike me. So I hum in his ear and whisper "Give me" as i pull on his shirt. He was so kind he took it right off. I slid it on and walked away. The people all seem to be in these covers some much fancy then the other. So i walked in to a store and looked at all the covers. A lady walked up to me and helped me put them on. But my humming did nothing to her. But not to far from her was a man who heard my song. He gave her a triangle of plastic and i got to keep it all. Life on land is easy. Night is falling i must find some where to live. I until I see a place with water all about the building, this is it this is my new home. I walk in side pleasantly. There is man who gives me the keys. I hum to the nice men who bring me thing they said i need. They brought me what feels the a cloud then call it a bed.
     Life is good here on land everyone is friendly. I have been watching T.V. here at  home, I realize need to work to fit in. That's is how thing work on land. So I go out to find a job. I wonder around the land when i could to a place where people sit to eat. Here is where i want to work. Everyone looks so happy in here. So i go up to the front and hum to the man in charge and I have a job. i'm not sure why mom said I wouldn't love it here its amazing.

5 years later

     I can't believe i ever lived in the sea. It all seems so far from me now. I moved from the big city to a small town with him! He is the love of my life and never once have i sang to him. I couldn't be happier or further from the sea. "I love you!" He whispers to me as i wake from my sleep. I cant help but feel completely happy. "You look as beautiful as the day i met you." I smile at him. "You are as dreamy as the day i met you." Life is good. I feel sick again this morning. For the past few weeks food has been my enemy. "You need to go to the doctor." He says. But i'm not sure how that even works. I have never felt sick in the sea. "No i am sure it will  pass." I walk to the kitchen and before I know it i am on the floor. He rushes me to the hospital. "Well there isn't anything wrong with you. Your just pregnant."  The doctor smiles. Oh no! A baby, will my baby be able to breath out of the sea?
    "Are you sure your up for this trip to the beach?" he says as he put our bags into the car. "Yes i am sure." The past two months have been so hard. I am so sick, i have to lave in salt water to feel better. If only he knew. He thinks i am 22 and maybe I am. But not in land time by they way humans consider time i am 268 which is nothing where i am from. but will my baby age like me or like him? So many questions. i need to ask my mom. i hum to put him to sleep when we get to our room next to the beach.  i walk into the water. I see her already waiting for me. "How did you know?" i ask her. "You are my daughter. Soon to have one of your own. She has to be born at sea or she will die." i cant believe what she is saying but i know she isn't lying. "What about her father?"  I know what she is about to tell me. but i had to ask. "By the time her lungs will be strong enough for land he will be old or he will be dead." i turn away and swim as fast as i can to land. I pull myself on to the shore and let out a scream one only my kind can hear. I feel the saddest i have ever felt in my life. I hear humming and i look up to see her singing. "Why are you letting out that kind of scream?" She stops singing. I grab her and put her hand on my tummy. She smiles. "She will die if i stay here on land." she nods her head no. "Thats what the creator of the sea think. She will not die. But if you have her on land she will never know the sea. She will live by land time and day the same way." she tells me as she helps me up. "How do you know?" She opens her locket. "She has been gone for 20 years now. She live and died her whole life before I even aged a year in what think is time." This mean if i have her here on land she will die much before me. "why stay here on land?" she smiles and points back. "for my great grandchildren. But i will tell you think if i could do it all again i would of took her to the sea. A mother should never watch her child die." She hugs me and walks away. What am I to do? Let her have her father? Or a longer life? I must do what is best for her. I walk up shore to see him. I lay down next to him.  I hum him to sleep for in the morning he wont remember me. 

Series Wednesday: Timetopia Page 13

                I bow down. “Hello.”  He circles around me, “Up.” He says, I look up to see his smile even more charming then the monument. I can’t believe I am getting to meet Charles, one of The Five! He is like every teen girls crush being the youngest man of The Five. He smiles at me. “Ava, why are you running?” He knows my name. “I lost my friend.” He opens his hand, where he is holding some type of orb. The orb lights up and a picture of Rev shines out. “Is this your friend?” I nod yes. “Do you know how she got to Timetopia?” I think about it for a bit. She never said how she got here, but Rev isn’t much of a sharer. I shake my head, no. “How long have you known Rev?”  I think about it. “A few weeks.” Now, he is nodding. “What has she told you about herself?” I was taught if one of The Five was to ever talk to me, I had to tell them anything and everything they asked. Most people have never even seen one of The Five in person, but Rev wouldn’t want me to tell her story… or the little bit I know. Maybe he can answer some questions for me. “She hasn’t really told me anything… We have just been running. Do you know what a gun is?” His face changed instantly. “Did she tell you what a gun was?” I know the gun is in Rev’s bag, maybe I should just show it to him. But he didn’t answer me, just asked me a question instead. “A manager used the metal handle. I’m sorry, I mean a gun, to hurt my mom at the Questions hall.” He looks shocked. “Wait, you’re saying there are guns here in Timetopia?” I nod yes.  He seems very upset by this news. “Ava, how do you know it was a gun? What does it look like?” Does he not believe me? Did Rev lie to me? I’m not sure what to say. “Rev told me it was a gun. It was metal, it made a loud pop noise. When it did, people started bleeding. My mom being one of them.” He stands very still now. “Ava, this manager… what happened to him?” Everything happened so fast I don’t remember. “I am not sure, I didn’t see. I was too worried about my mom. Do you know what happened to her?” We aren’t supposed to ask The Five questions. He hasn’t said anything about it, but I think he is going to now. Just the look on his face. “I wish I knew what happened to your mom. It seems like some of the managers have gone a little rogue. But I promise you, I’ll look into it.” He strokes his hand across my cheek.

                I take a step back from him. He looks at me “Your eyes, they are so familiar. He pulls the orb out again. He has all my school pictures on it and pictures of my parents. I can’t help but smile when I see their pictures. “Can I see that?” I stick my hand out.  He looks down at the orb for a second and then laughs. “It won’t work for you. Its Five technology. This is my own and only works for me.”  He seems so proud of  this fact. “How is it that there are no baby pictures of you Ava? And no child care tracker in your neck?” I am not sure what to say. I don’t know the answer. “I didn’t know there wasn’t any pictures of me as a baby. There are at my house.” He laughs. “No, those are pictures of you as a toddler. The earliest one of you is when you seem to be 2 or 3.” I shrug, not sure of the answer. “Where are you off to?” I am not sure why he is asking me this. “I am off to my grandma’s house.” He had such a serious face and now he is smiling again. “Did Rev tell you that’s where she is taking you?” I nod yes. “I am going to have to go now, but here. Take this.” He hands me a watch. “It’s pretty, thank you.” I’m not sure what I have done to get a present. “It’s not just a watch. If you press the center, it will tell me where you are. Since I can’t track you, I have no way to come to your side if you need help.  I don’t think Rev is helping you get to your grandma’s. So when you get to where it is that she is taking you, just press the button and I will come to your aid.”  Rev would never hurt me.  Why does he think that? “Rev wouldn’t do anything to hurt me. I think you have the wrong impression of her.” He laughs. “There is a saying where I am originally from. You can’t trust anyone. Not even you’re pets, because if you stop feeding them they will eventually eat you.” WHAT DID HE JUST SAY?! Isn’t that what Rev says? Where is she? I have so many questions for her. “Do you know where I can find Rev?”  He laughs. “Right. I had to pull her out of time so I could talk to you. I threw her ahead a few hours. By the time you make it back to your room, she should be appearing.” He turns to walk away. He must be The Five who is going to lead us for the next year. “Thank you. Oh and welcome to our year, I can’t wait to see how you lead the year.”  He laughs. “I’m not the one making the switch into this year.” He walks away and disappears. This makes no sense. Unless of an emergency, two of The Five are never supposed to be in the same place. How is he in our time? That would break the rules. I’m not sure what’s going on. The Five wrote the laws, why would he risk it? I’m so lost about what’s happening. But I need to find Rev. I grab the back pack and head back to the visiting center.

Poems: Hard work from yesterday

Easy way of life is what they sell us.

Work smarter not harder is what they say.
But we can't we do both?

Kids growing up without a scar now a days.

But is it better?

Never knowing the joys from hard work.

Will they always cry when things don't go their way?

A generation of winners, never knowing how to lose?

I was shown at a young age what it was to save.

Even pancakes as a toddler i worked for.

maybe not in a conventional way.

So now that I am older I hear these kids cry,

Not wanting to work but skate through life. 

I don't understand.

Thinking this world owns them.

Excuse me i say, you most currently are mistaken.

Your luck to not be in the fields.

Your luck to be able to be in school.

So please i ply stop being ungrateful.

For if your not careful things can change.

Stop looking to the people on T.V. screens for the answers.

Look back at your families past.

To the grandmas and grandpa who slaved away.

For you to have a better day.

I'm sure never did they dream for such an ungrateful day.

Series Wednesday: Timetopia Page 12

                I wake up in the morning and Rev is packing a back pack. “There is a stream not too far from here. I want to go see it. I mean we can’t leave town any way.” She is being very shifty. “Do you want me to come with you?” She looks out the window. “If you want. But I am leaving in 5 minutes.” She hasn’t left my side since the day I met her. I am not sure why she is in such a rush to get there. I grab my shoes and throw some clothes on and follow her.

                We hike 5 miles to this stream and she isn’t the Rev I normally see all the time. She stands at this stream silently and very strong.  She starts to kick a tree and screams. I step back, she was frightening me. “Why did you do this!!!?” she throws a rock into the water. “What did I do?” I ask her. She looks at me like she forgot I was there. “Not you.” I look around. This place must mean something to her. “What happen here Rev?” she stands there with tears in her eyes. “This is where Richard asked me to marry him.” I looked around. Wait I thought she had never been to timetopia. “When was this?” I need to understand. “It was on a crazy trip we did. We drove from the Bronx to California. We were sick of driving and Richard decided we needed to be one with the land. So we hiked and here is where we stopped. He got on one knee right here by this tree and asked me to spend every day of the rest of our lives with him. I got up on this rock looked him in the eye and said yes, unless he went bald then I’m out. We both laughed and he said he would get hair plugs if that ever happened.”  California? Hair plugs? I’m not sure what a lot of these things are but I can see it is hurting Rev. I have never seen her so open hearted. I hug her, she pushes me away. “I’m not much of a hugger. But I get the sentiment.” She just stands there.  “Rev how did you drive through Timetopia before?” she stops being sad instantly. “Right, Timetopia.” She is standing very still now. I am waiting for a real answer. She knows more then what she is telling me. Is this the place she visited or not? How could she have drove to California a place I have never heard of in Timetopia? “Rev answer me.” She looks at me. “Ava I can’t.”  Now I am getting mad. “Why not? How did you drive to through Timetopia before?”  Her face get serious. “Ava you don’t understand. And I can’t be the one to tell you, I want to trust me.  But your grandmother is waiting for you with all the answer. I promise when we get to where we are supposed to. Most of your questions will be answered even some you haven’t even thought of yet.” I am done with this! I want answers why do I have to wait to get to my grandma’s house. None of this makes any sense. “No Rev. I have traveled across Timetopia I need some answers. I deserve at least some.”  She nods yes, but paces back and forth. “This isn’t my place. But I have never been any good at following orders. I wouldn’t be here if I was. If you need some of what I know to go on, maybe it is the right thing.”  I nod yes. She takes a deep breath. “Okay well you see…..” Rev disappears right in front of me.  Her back pack drops to the floor. I don’t understand.. How could this happen? I was looking right at her. This isn’t right. I feel like I can’t breathe. I look around and there is no one around me. “REV!” I scream. Did she get erased? If she did would it happen like this?

                I start to run back to the main road no signs of her. How could she just be gone? Wait this is just like my mom. She was there one second and gone the next. Okay stop think. I need a plan. What if Rev never comes back? I need to still make it to my grandma’s.  I hope she comes back. If I was going to make it to my grandma’s I need the map. I stop running and remember the map is in Rev back pack. So I turn around. I run back to the back pack. Why would I leave that behind? What was I thinking? So I run back the mile I just ran. I make it back to her back pack. Still no sign of Rev. I still see her foot prints of where she was standing and it’s like she was pulled right from the spot. I don’t understand. “Hello Ava.” I hear a man’s voice from behind me. I turn around slowly. I can’t believe who is standing in front of me.

Fun in cali

    Hi Everyone.
So i'm sooooo Excited to share what i have been up to. Yesterday i shot a photo shoot for the Timetopia characters!!! So you will finally get to see my vision of them. A huge thanks to all of my friends who helped out. They are still in editing but i cant wait to share! Thank you everyone for reading and taking this journey with me! Be sure to hit that follow button so you don't miss a thing. 

A little catch up time with you

Hello Everyone!
I am sorry i have posted about what i am have been up to. I have just been very busy trying to plan a project for timetopia to help you guy visualize things a little better. I will be off to california tomorrow to work on this project. But do not worry i will still be posting timetopia on Wednesday. Life has been so great here in Florida i am loving it. I really like my job, I am not yet a full time writer so i have to work a full time job. But i work with great people. I hope every ones holiday season is going well.   I will keep you updating on all the exciting things coming your way. Thanks as always for reading and hit that follow button right there on the right so you don't miss out on all the Short stories and Timetopia. 

Series Wednesday: Timetopia Page 11

                As we drive into the city, Rev pulls off the road. “We can’t drive into the city on a wellness checker's bike.” She has a good point. She hides the bike in some bushes. We start to walk to town. “We should stay at the visitor center tonight.” I tell Rev. “How would that work? Don’t we need some of those bar-code things on the back of our necks?” I look at her. I’m not sure what our bar-codes would have to do with the visitor center. “All we have to do is go in and sign up for a room. We just have to tell them we are on our way to my grandma’s. Since I am not 20 or married I have no ID yet.  So there won’t be anything for us to show them, but we have to do something about your hair.” Rev stops me. “Listen to me, you can’t tell anyone where we are going. You are going to have to lie.”  I don’t like this. Why should I lie? I am not doing anything wrong. “Why? I don’t want to lie.” Rev takes a deep breath and rolls her eyes at me. “I’m going to tell you a saying from back home. You can’t trust anyone not even your pet, because if you stop feeding them, even they will eventually eat you. Okay? Good chat.” Rev starts walking again. What does that even mean?

                                 Rev has her fake hair as we walk into town, we walk over to the visiting center. “So it’s like a hotel.” Rev shrugs, I’m not sure what a hotel is. She walks right into the visiting center and walks right up to the front desk. “Hi welcome. How many rooms are you going to need?” Asks the guy at the front desk. “Just one. There is just me and my cousin on our way to our aunts house.” The guys looks at Rev for a few seconds. “Okay one suite.” He hands her the keys. She smiles at him. “My name is Ron, if there is anything you need I’ll be the one to help you.” He smiled at me as he said it. Rev doesn’t seem to notice the little things, like the way everyone is kind. She is kind when she has to be but it never feels like it was taught to her like it was to us. We get to our suite. She pulls bowls out of her bag. “You want my hair color changed then you have to help.” She hand me gloves. She start pouring things into the bowl, the mixture turns dark brown almost black. “Where did you get this?” she laughs. “I brought it with me from back home. You don’t have this stuff here.” She starts to part her hair and has me evenly put what looks like mud on her hair.  She sits with it in her hair for a while and goes and washes it out. When she came back out her hair is brown and shiny. She has long brown hair now. “Are you happy now?” she asks. “Why did you have your hair that color in the first place?” She rolls her eyes. “Some stories are better not before bed. Let’s get some sleep and back on the road tomorrow.”  We hear a knock at the door. Rev grabs her knife and walks toward the door slowly. I run over to her and stop her. I walk to the door and open it. “Hello, I am responsible to let you know the day after tomorrow is Switch Festival. Here are the specific details. Enjoy your night.” It’s Ron the guy from the front desk, he hands me a paper with our itinerary for the festival. “Why thank you Ron.” I smile and close the door. Rev gets up and grabs the itinerary out of my hand. “Too bad we are going to miss this.”  I forget that she didn’t grow up here. “We can’t miss this. They shut down all the roads. There is no way out of the city until the switch is over.” Rev rolls her eyes “What is the switch? And why do they lock down the roads?” I stick my hand out for her to hand me the itinerary back. I sit in our sitting area and lay the paper out for her to see. “It’s the switch, we are getting a new one of the Five. It’s been a year since the last switch. So for a few days all of the cities are on lock down. Just until the Five get here, well the one in our time at least. So see here tomorrow the old one leaves and for 24 hours we are alone to have our festival without a Five.  Then the new one comes and it’s time to start anew.” She looks at the papers. “So you realize that there are only 5 right so there can’t be new ones or old ones because there is only 5. Just helping you with the math on that one. So we are stuck great.” I laugh. “But this is the most fun time of the year. It’s the start of the New Year. It’s the only time we can drink more than one glass of liquor a day it’s all you can drink.”  Rev smiles. “Okay so it’s New Years, maybe we could have a little bit of fun. Wait, you can drink?” I look at her. “Yes I am 17, we can start having a glass of wine at 16.”  Rev gets up and walks to her bed. “How do you know which one of The Five you’re going to get?”  What a strange question. “We don’t, that’s why the switch is such a big deal. We see who we are going to get. It’s exciting.” Rev’s eyes go to the ground… how strange. 

Random Short story: The love in the eye of the storm

    My uncle never married he was a different kind of man. He was a meteorologist. He was always out chasing storms. My mom always said he loved the chaos of it all. I never gave it much thought until the summer I went to stay with him. "Why did your mom send you here again during storm season? Does she not want to keep you?" I think he is making a joke. "She said i need to start taking life more serious and focus on my future. So i have no idea why she sent me to you." I smile I feel some what awkwardly as I look at all the picture on the walls of huge storms. "Right, Well there is your room. There is a storm coming this way in a few days. So I will be out, there is a shelter under the house where you will be safe." I look at him. He sounds slightly excited for the storm. I cant help but notice these pictures of the storm are different then any others i have ever seen in books. I'm not sure what it is. Most are in the eye of the storm, how he manages to get photo in that has always been a mystery to us all. I go to check out my room I lay down and get some rest.
     Something about those pictures keep haunting me in my sleep. So i get up and grab them off the walls. I line them up in chronological order. I sit there four hours looking at them. The storm almost feels inviting. I feel obsessed now, what is it about these darn photos? I start to take them out of the frames. Pictures from behind them fall out. There is my uncle standing in the middle of the storms holding someone. In one of them they are kissing. Here my family thought he was gay and didn't want to tell us. Who is this mystery girl and why is she in the middle of the storm with my uncle? I hear the alarms sound off. The storm is hitting close to us.  I hear my uncle running through the house. I peak out my door and see him grab a gift. Why is he grabbing a gift in the middle of the storm? Is it for this girl? I run out of my room. "Take me with you." I yell. "I can't! I can't promise you that you will come back." I don't care i am way to curious now. "Who is she?" He looks at me and looks at the walls in the living room. "I don't have time to explain right now. If your going to come then come on." I run to the truck. He is driving like a mad man. Well others are flying the other direction he is drive toward the storm.  We drive up the winds are so strong the truck feels like it is going to flip. There she is in the middle of all the winds waiting. She lights up when she sees the truck. "Stay here understand?" my uncle tells me. I nod yes, I mean where i am going to go? He run out into the storm. The killer winds don't seem to touch him. He run into her arms. The winds don't seem to touch her either. I hear on the radio the storm is getting worse, people are getting hurt. She seems to be crying and my uncle handing her the gift. She kisses him and lifts up into the wind. "NO!" I scream she is going to die. But as she goes the storm comes to a stop. What is happening here? My uncle walks back to the car. His head down. I am freaking out a little. "Did she just kill her self?"  My uncle laughs "No she didn't kill her self." How did she not killer her self? "Your joking right she just flew off into the storm. I hate to be the one to tell you this but that leads to death." I put my hand on his shoulder to easy the pain. "She is the storm."  he looks at me waiting for my reaction. He is crazy or is he? she is all of the picture of the storm right in the middle. "OKAAAAAAY? Lets say i don't believe you. Convince me."  He sighs. "I might as well tell some one." His head low practically in his lap. "Yeah might as well."
   "It started when i was 17 I met a girl on vacation in the islands. She was the most amazing girl i had ever met. She told me she loved me. So we ran off together, we left our families and everything we knew. We didn't make it far before her mother found us. What she was doing was agonist everything law of nature. You see she was the daughter of mother nature and father time. she was suppose to be learning about us humans so should would value our lives. So one day when she be came mother nature shouldn't kill all of us for fun or anything like that i guess. She fought with her mom giving up everything to be with me. So her mom said if that how she wanted it to be. She made her the eye of the storm. So when ever she is here in physical form a horrible storm hits, the longer she stays the worse it get killing many."  WOW. If i hadn't seen her in the storm i wouldn't of believed him. I saw her she was real and so i believe him. "Why don't you go with her?"  He sits there silently for a moment. "I might no survive. My body was go off in to many pieces kind of thing. There is a chance my soul would be with her but we aren't sure. So she doesn't want to risk it. But i cant keep living this way it has been 13 years of this." He seems so broken we go back to the house.
     The summer is almost over and so is the storm season. There is suppose to be one more big storm. My uncle prepares of it and starts to pack his thing he going to the other side of the world for their storm season. How could he live this way? He seems like a part of him is missing all the time. I would risk it if i was him. Just for the chance at true love. I hear the alarms sound in the distance the storm is getting closer. He runs to the truck and i run after him and jump in. "Isn't true love worth the risk?" i ask him. He smiles. "Yes it is." We pull up to the middle of the storm and there she stands. "Here are the keys." He hands them to me. He runs out to her. She again is crying as she holds him. He lets her go and she starts to go up into the wind. I guess it wasn't worth the risk. My uncle waves at me and turns around running toward her and jumps holding on to her. Both of them get taken into the winds. He did it. I'll never know if he survived but i do know this was 20 years ago and we haven't had anything bigger than a rain storm.

Poem: may the sun bring change

Every day I wait through the rain
even on what should be sunny days.
Life feels like a haze.
Endless amount of days.
Never really sad but nothing to exciting.
Just the same old drab.
So I made a change.
I left the boring behind with the same.
I freed myself of the lame chains.
As exciting as it was.
Almost happy I feel.
It seem my heart is still withered away.
So as I smile I still feel the echoes of the pain.
Day by day it doesn't last.
and now I can even make myself laugh.
But i still long for the days where I could feel the sun's rays.

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                “What did you do?” I scream at Rev. “He had to die. He had a tracker, it was only a matter of time before they would find us.” I’m so mad at her. “NO he didn’t. We could’ve let him go. I don’t think he would have told and by the time he got back we would have been long gone.”  She laughs. “That’s not how it works in war.” War? Who is at war? “What war?” she shakes her head. “Come on we have to get to a main city. We have to ditch the van. Now that they have pictures of it. It’s only a matter of time until they catch up to us.” She is grabbing her backpack out of the van. NO more I am done with this! “NO! Okay things need to change now! We need to do something about your hair if we don’t want to be noticed! No more killing people unless you have to you understand me?!” Rev looks at me and smiles. I’m not sure why she is smiling. I feel a little bad for yelling at her, I have never yelled at any one before. “Okay I won’t kill unless I have to. However this was a have to. You might not see it right now but every choice I make is for the best. And I like my hair.”  I can’t help but laugh now but Rev has been right about everything. I just don’t agree with killing anyone. “You can like it all you want, but it’s a sign that you don’t belong here. If you’re willing to kill people so we aren’t found you should be willing to shave your head to not be noticed.”  Rev’s head turns so fast I thought it was going to fly off. “HOLD UP! What did u just say? Shave what? Because I know you’re not talking about my hair!”  It looks like she wants to kill me. “Yes your hair. You can wear a wig until it grows back, but you can’t keep it that red color.” She shakes her head. “Yes that’s fine but I can dye it. I don’t need to shave it, are you crazy?” Dye? I’m not sure what this is. “Is that how you got it this color? By dying it?” she looks lost. “Is that why all the old people have grey hair? They won’t let you dye your hair?” I look at my hair. I can’t imagine it that color. “What is dye? Is it changing your hair red?” She laughs. “No it’s just changing your hair color. To any color you want. Where I am from people want to keep their hair from turning grey or they just hate their hair color and so they change it.” I don’t understand some one not liking their hair color or caring that their hair turns grey. But it must be nice to have the choice to change anything you want to about yourself. That must be why the Five took it away to teach us to love ourselves the way we are. “As fun as that seems, how are you supposed to love yourself if you don’t even know what you really look like?” Rev looks at me. “Yea I think that’s one of the many things about home that’s messed up.” I look at Rev. Maybe this is why she is in Timetopia.

                “We need to get rid of the van. Plus we are going to need to find another way to get around.” Rev is packing her back pack and popping the hood to the van. She has lit the engine on fire. She walks over to the motorbike and gets on it. “Well are you coming?” Rev looks at me. “Yea, how are we supposed to get a new car?” She laughs. “The same way we got the van. I’ll steal it out of town.” I laugh at her.  “Why would you steal a car? We can just go to the car dealer and tell them we need one.”  Her head turns and looks at me. “What? They just give you a car?” I laugh. “No you have to pass the driver’s test and then you get a car.” She sighs. “A test great. So we go to the DMV to take the test?” she is starting the bike. “No we go to the library. What’s a DMV?” she tilts her head with a smile. “Thank goodness they got rid of that! That is one great thing the Five did. The DMV was an evil place that stole time and made everyone who went in miserable. The people who work there hate their lives let alone their jobs. They hate to help people and follow pointless rules.” Wow this DMV place sounds horrible.  It must be why the Five got rid of it. Rev starts the bike and we are off to the next city. I can’t help but wonder if the Five know what happened at the Questions hall. What if it’s not them but just people who have lost their way. I wonder if I could get a hold of the one in our time and if they would have answers. Maybe my grandma will know. But for now, onto the city.

Monday blues before the holidays

Today i have work. but i am a little sleepy. I spent last night working on one of my novels I was just so wrapped in my charters. I love nights like that. I wish i could share all of my writing with you guys but sadly I don't have the time for that. So i share timetopia with you guys. I love the feed back and the amount of love you all have been showing it! I am always over whelmed with joy when i see the likes and the amount of people tuning in. I am super excited for the holidays that are coming. I am a little sad to be so far from my California family. However am excited to make new memories with my new Florida family. Don't worry timetopia will still be going up on Wednesday.

Be sure to pick up the The labyrinth of thought for a great stocking stuffier. 

Random Short story: Grandpa's hourglass

    My grandpa was a strange man. So no wonder he had a strange death. i could still remember him and my grandma fighting when i was a girl. That was before he left her, he said she was just to old minded for him. I am fully grown now and understand my grandpa want to stay young. Maybe that's why he died falling out of a plane. His parachute didn't open. What a not fun way to go. That wasn't the strange thing about it though. It was when they reported it to the cops. The man said it was a 40 year old man who had died but when the cops got there, it was my 75 year old grandpa body laying there dead. The cops were just as confused as the workers. Yes a very strange death for a very strange man.
    "What did dad leave you?" i hear uncle Dan ask my mom. "I'm not sure Dan. Today is his funeral. We haven't gone over anything with the lawyer yet." I can hear the frustration in my mothers voice. My uncle Dan always wanted to be just like his dad. So he travels the world the way my grandpa did with out a care. For some odd reason he never seemed to have as much fun as my grandpa. I always felt like he was chasing my grandpa more than anything. "Mini did they say what was on him when they found him?" Mini is what every one in my family calls my mom. "NO DAN! Why don't you just tell me what your looking for and maybe its in dads things and i can tell you if i have seen it." Dan looks at my mom for a long time. "Do you remember when dad when to south america? When we were in high school. He came back with that hourglass necklace?"  My mom takes a deep breath. "Yes the one engraved with you live and die by the sands of time or something like that." My uncle is practically jumping with excitement. "Yes that's the one! where is it?" My mom shrugs. "I have no idea Dan i haven't seen it in years about the last time i saw dad. Dan walks away all upset. "Mommy what was great grandpa like?" I grab my daughter and hold her. I had her much to young and had to grow up fast, but she has truly made every moment worth it. "He was a man of mystery always traveling the world. I never saw him much. He was to busy having a life time of adventure." My little girl laughs.

15 years later

     "Please sign here ms." i felt flattered he called me ms. I got a package in the mail. Strange i didn't order anything. Maybe its an early birthday gift. Its a good size box. I open it and there is a letter on top of a bunch of pictures on top of another box. I open the letter it seem to be from my grandpa, how is this even possible. "Dear Beth, Happy 40th birthday. I am writing you this letter the day before i die. You see i used up all my sand, so it is simple just my time. But i am passing on to you the greatest gift. It is time in a hourglass. There will be two in the box one to wear around your neck and the other to keep in a safe place. Put your blood on the sand and it will begin. Take the sand out of the big hourglass and for how ever it last you will be young again. But you only have as much sand is in the hourglass once your out your done. There is enough sand for you to live 120 years if you don't use  any of it. But be careful if you do. Youth can be addictive. Don't tell my son about this. He thought i would give this gift to him. But he has had a real chance at life, you however never got to be young much like me. So here is your second chance. love your grandpa." I cant believe what this letter just said. He must have lost his mind. I look into the box at all the photo of him. There are times and date over 30 years in the pictures he didn't seem to age. I look at all the adventures that his second chance allowed him to take.  I open the box inside and pull out the big hourglass the sand white but not dipping down, strange. But in all of the pictures of my grandpa he has the little one around his neck. So the real Question is am I will to live and die by the sands of time?

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With the motorbikes fast approaching I can’t help but wonder if they also have metal handles. I mean if they have guns. “Do you know how to drive?” Rev asks me. “Yes, I kind of know how to drive.” She smiles. “Take the wheel!” she yells as she jumps out of the driver seat. I can’t believe she just jumped out like that. I jump in the seat. Which is the gas pedal again? Why didn’t I listen to my dad as he was trying to teach me? Okay Ava you got this. Gas is the right pedal and the left must be the brake. I hear Rev messing with some kind of liquid behind me. I see the wellness checkers right behind us in my mirror. “Rev they are catching up with us fast!” I yell back at her. “Like on our bumper?” Rev replies. “No they haven’t jumped on the van yet. But they are going to catch up in… I would say a few seconds. They are probably going to use the blue stop on the van soon.” I push down on the gas pedal to go faster. “What is the blue stop??? And please explain in 10 seconds or less.” She is still moving around back there. “The blue stop is the blue ball they throw at your car and it shorts out your electric system and your car stops.” She sighs. “Okay then. That’s pretty self-explanatory. Do you know what a cocktail bomb is?”  I look back and she holding a glass bottle with a rag in it. She starts laughing and opens the back door.  The wellness checkers are right behind us and she lights the rag on fire. She has a big scary smile on her face. She throws it out in the open and it hits one of the wellness checkers. He instantly catches on fire. The other wellness checker tries to throw the blue stop at us. “Don’t touch it with your hand!” I yell at Rev as I hear him throw the blue stop. “What the…Okay won’t touch it!” I look back and see Rev catching the blue stop with her sweater. “Got it!” she yells. “Good to know! What now?” She laughs. “Don’t worry I got this!” I look back at her. She smiles at me and jumps out of the van on to the wellness checker. I hit the left pedal as hard I can. The van comes to an abrupt stop and I jump out. Both of them are on the side of the road. Rev is up before the wellness checker, it’s almost like she is indestructible. I run over to her.  The wellness checker is trying to get up, Rev walks over to him and kicks his helmet off him. I run up and grab her before she rips his head off. “Rev stop he is down.” Rev pulls away from me. “We need to find out how he knew where we were. If you can’t take this don’t look.” She walks over to him and I turn my back to her, I don’t want to see him get hurt. Why does it has to be this way?

“Stop!” Rev is half on him and has her knee on his chest. He isn’t talking. “Please let me try.” I ask her. “Fine, you try it. Be my guest.” How could I be her guest? I’ll let that one go. “Hi. I’m Ava. What’s your name?” He looks at me and then at Rev. “You better answer her or I get you.” She motions forward at him. “I’m Derek.” I smile. “Hi Derek, might I ask why are you following us?” He sits up. “Sure. I am following you under the orders of a head question master. There seems to have been a question taken from the question box before the fire. The question needs to be returned with the person that took it.” I look at Rev, I’m almost certain neither of us took a question. “We don’t have a question. We never took a question from the questions box. How did you know to follow the Van?” He pulls something out of his pocket. It’s a picture of our van. “The head questions master gave me this. Then pointed us in this direction.” Rev grabs the photo out of his hand. “They lied to you.” He looks lost. Rev doesn’t understand that we are taught as kids to never to lie. “Why would they lie to me?” Derek seems lost by Rev’s comment. “Because they don’t want to tell you the truth. Why else would someone lie?” He sits there with a disconcerting look. “How do I know you’re not lying to me?” Derek asks Rev, he has a point there. “Why would I lie to you I’m not planning on letting you live.” Me and Derek both look at Rev. What does she mean? She walks back to the van. “Look, just come back with me. If you didn’t steal the question it will all be cleared up.” Derek sounds so hopeful, but after everything I saw I’m not sure if hope is the best thing right now. Rev walks back up with the metal handle. “Do you have one of these?” she shows it to Derek. “No, what is that?” He looks just as confused as me. “You’re telling me you have never seen anything like this?” She already asked if he had seen it.  Why is she asking again? “No I haven’t. It looks like some kind of drill maybe?” she laughs. “No. It’s a weapon.” He looks at me. I’m not sure what this word is either so I shrug at him. “Rev what is a weapon?” She looks at me. “Want to see how it works?” He nods yes. The handle makes the loud pop noise again. Rev covers my eyes right away. “Come on we have to go.” Wait why is she covering my eyes? Why isn’t Derek talking? I pull her hand off of my eyes. There is Derek’s body, completely lifeless. 

Poems: Nov 15,1991 The day my best was made.

To a love i have always had.

Today is your special day.

Even though we grew up with out dads.

You were so much of a man.

More then just my best friend.

Even when you were a young lad.

I love to the moon and back.

That's no statement, that's a fact.

Happy birthday on this blessed day.

For it is the day you were made.

I thank the heaven or who ever is above.

For they brought me you.

The truest of loves.

I know if you could see this you would hate.

but i don't care because you my best mate. 

Poem: When I'm away

I am letting the endless bullshit get the best of me.

I cant not eat

I cant not sleep. 

I feel almost empty.

I gave my all to everyone involved.

Which in turn left me with nothing.

As it seems i cant get to my special place.

My one and only escape. 

So i am drowning in sadness of reality.

No one really getting my pain.

But that's okay for that one i take the blame.

I will never be the type to sit there and cry.

Especially in front of prying eyes.

So i pretend to be strong.

Just like my mom.

Weathering each and every day.

So when you don't hear from me,

It not because I'm out having fun.

I'm just dealing with life in my own way.

Happy sunday funday

    This weekend has been very fun. Got all my Christmas shopping down and even got to explore my city. I'm not sure how everyone else feels but i love to explore by my self. Yes it can be fun with friends but i hate being on any one else schedule. A lot of good thing are coming soon. Cant wait to for all of you to see what i have been working on for you. Thank you to all my loyal readers. If your new to my blog welcome. I love to write about a lot of different thing. but i love to write about things that try to open your mind. Thank you for reading.

Series Wednesday: Timetopia page 8

                I wake up in the van. A few days have passed since my mom died or disappeared. I’m still not sure what happened. I haven’t said anything. I haven’t been able to stop thinking long enough to talk or eat. All I want to do is sleep. “Come on Ava you’ve got to eat something.” Rev is shoving food in my face. I push it away. “Fine. Sleep. We have a long ride ahead of us to your grandma’s house anyway.”  I sit up and look around. We are still on our way to my grandma’s? NO. I need to go home to my dad. He needs me now, with my mom gone. I get out of the van and I start walking back to my home. “Where are you going?” I hear Rev yelling from behind me. “I’m going home.” I yell back. “Home?” She grabs me from behind. “Yes home to my dad.” She looks at me and puts her head down. “You can’t go home. We have to keep moving forward. We have to go to your grandma’s house. That’s what your mom wanted.” How dare she talk about what my mom wanted. She didn’t know my mom. She doesn’t know me and I don’t know her. I push her off and keep walking. “Ava Stop!” Fine she wants me to stop, so I’m going to stop and I turn to her, “What do you know? Huh? You don’t know me! You don’t know my mom!”  I shout at her. “I do know your mom. I met her when you were just a baby.”  I look at Rev for a bit. She just doesn’t look that much older than me. “How old are you?” I ask her “I’m 23. Look Ava I’m just here to help you get to your grandma’s house.” There she goes again with my grandma’s house. “Why and who told you to take me to my grandma’s house?” She looks at me with her head tilt. “Who do you think? Your mom did.” I want to cry when I think that my mom has a plan for me. But why is Rev helping us? “Why are you helping us? I’m sorry but you don’t seem like the type to do something out of the kindness of your heart.”  She looks up at me and scrunches her noise. “You’re right, I’m not. There is a guy who did horrible things and he is hiding here in Timetopia. Helping you helps me to find him.” I just look at her because that makes sense. “Richard I’m guessing?” Her face changes, “Yes Richard. That son of a…..” she doesn’t finish her sentence. I’m not sure what he is a son of, but I need to know what he did. “Tell me what happened please.” I walk back toward the van. “Well Richard was my husband. We had been together since high school. I thought he was the love of my life… He was with me the day I graduated the academy, he was there when I was recruited special ops, and he even took my picture on my first day of the CIA. Richard isn’t like anyone you have ever met, he is charming with the most innocent smile. He can get you to tell him anything. He knew all of my secrets and my secrets weren’t just mine. He killed someone very close to me and ran here. Your mother knows how to find him, he is near your grandma’s house. So she asked me to take you to her and then I would get him.”  I have never seen her look sad before. “Was it your mother he killed?” I ask. She sighs, “The only one I ever had.”  I can tell she doesn’t want to talk about it. I hug her, I see I am not the only one who lost my mother here. “Why my grandma’s house?” She shakes her head and reaches into the car and pulls out the metal handle. She puts it in my hand. “Timetopia is a lie. This is a gun. There is a lot you don’t know. Your grandma has the answers. We need to get to her house. She will tell you everything you need to know.”  I am holding this gun in my hand, it’s heavy and cold. This is what made the pop noise and put the hole in Alexis’s head. There are a lot of lies going on here. I’m not sure how I can help, but I have a feeling that going home to get my dad will get him hurt. “Okay lets go.” I hop in the van.

                “Can I ask something?” Rev laughs, “Yes of course.” I sit there trying to be sure to word this correctly. “What is the CIA?”  Rev looks at me. “It’s a company ran by rich powerful men, who make all the decisions for the country. I worked for them.” I look at her. I don’t want to sound dumb. “What does rich mean?”  She laughs. “You know rich… People with a lot of money which in turn means they have a lot of power.” Once again she says things that I don’t understand. “What is money? How does it give someone power?” She looks at me shocked. “OH shit this is why we haven’t had to pay for any of the food! Wait if there is no money, how do you pay for things?” I look around. I still don’t understand what she means. “Well maybe if you explain pay to me I can tell you how you do it.”  She drives silently for a few minutes. “When you guys go to work. How? Wait, I mean what do you get out of it?”  I don’t understand her question, “What do you mean? What do we get out of it? When we go to work, we go to help the community. We go to school to learn how to help the community and then one day when we are old enough they send us to where we would best serve.” She laughs. “So how do you buy your homes?” Buy? I’m not sure what buy is. “We are assigned homes. When you get married you get a home. You get assigned to a neighborhood with other newlyweds.  That’s your house until you die, unless you are barren. If you’re barren then you have to move into a neighborhood with other infertile couples with one bedroom homes.” She laughs again. “So you’re telling me they tell you where to live and if you can’t have kids they kick you out of your house?” That is a very crude way of putting it but yes I guess that is what happens. “Well you can’t have a three bedroom home for just two people. That’s gluttony. You must move into a smaller home.”  She rolls her eyes. “What if you have family or friends who want to visit?” Visit at your house? I don’t know why she would think that. “They would stay at a visiting center. Why would anyone stay at your house that doesn’t live there?” She laughs. I hear motorbikes behind us. She stops laughing and looks back. “Wellness checkers?” I look out the window. It’s definitely wellness checkers and they are catching up to us fast.

Random Story story: Should i hide the body?

     *Ring ring ring* "Hello?" says  a very sleepy Alexandra. "Wake up i need you." with out even another word she knew who it was. That's the thing about best friends they don't need names or numbers in your phone. Just one word and by the voice alone you know who is on the phone. "Address." is all Alexandra says. "350 pine. Please hurry." She hopped in her car and went to get her friend. she pulls up and there she stand. "I didn't mean to but i killed him." Alexandra looked at her shaking friend. "We need to call the police." Alexandra suggest. "No they wont believe me on what happen he came after me, well he tried to." Alexandra knows exactly what they are saying. "They would be believe you if you don't speak out." Alexandra is just trying to help. "Come on get real. He is a star athlete and me a nobody. We aren't exactly on the high end of the food chain. And well you know there is the whole its me thing." K looks down. Alexandra looks at K. "The truth is better then any lie i will fight for you K. Rape is not a maybe thing. If he tried it isn't right, it is perfectly normal for you to put up a fight." K sits there thinking of the options, what to do? "Call your mom please Alexandra. She will be able to help." Alexandra smiles calls her mom and then the cops.

     Alexandra and K told the cops everything that happened. The cops didn't want to listen, they couldn't believe that their star athlete could wanted K. Before you know it K was taken away, off to jail for murder. Alexandra couldn't believe what she was seeing. She really did believe the truth would help, her and her mother stood there hand in hand. "This is wrong, K didn't do anything wrong but yet this is happening." Alexandra mom hugs her. "Its time to take it to the most powerful people of all." Alexandra looks a little lost. "The Man?" Thinking her mom is talking about the jurisdictional system. "No to the public perception they decide everything."

    Alexandra stand in front of the jail with cameras on her. "Today i am here to speak out on a great injustice happening here today. In there they are holding my friend K. K defend agonist a rapist and won. The rapist is now dead and K is on trail. It doesn't matter your beliefs on many things. Rape is wrong. The only reason K is on trail is because K is a man. The cops didn't believe him, that a seemingly straight football player tried to rape him. If K stood for Karen and not Kevin, this would be a different story. But because Kevin is the male, he is be booked for a murder. Wrong he is a victim and we need to stop victim shaming. Like i said no matter your beliefs Kevin fought back and did the right thing. He called the cops and turned himself in. Never let your personal beliefs cloud your judgement of what is right. Gay or straight no one has the right to harm your body. Thank you for your time." I wish to say Kevin was let go. but this isn't a prefect world and he is doing life. Alexandra often wishes she would of just helped K hide the body. For even if the younger generation understands, it is still the old generation in power and there is nothing yet we can do to change that. Just teach our kids that no matter your beliefs EVERY HUMAN HAS A RIGHT TO PROTECT THEIR BODY!

Friday you came just in time

     Good morning everyone. Its friday thank goodness. This was well waited for. Had a stressful week with moving and trying to get everything in its place has been a real challenge . So i have been working like crazy. because nothing is free. I have also been writing like crazy. Well i hope everyone is having a way better week then me.

Series Wednesday: Timetopia page 7

                “How are we going to make this fire?”  Rev asks me as she is looking at the screens. “You would need a controlled fire. The room your mother is in would be the hardest room to get out of if the front rooms are on fire.” Alexis explains as she points at the screens. I get up off the floor and pace back and forth. I look at the screens and it looks like they are on the same system as the wellness center. “What if we don’t need a huge fire just to make the system think there is a big fire?” Both of them look at me very confused. “How would we do that?” Alexis asks. I jump to the screens and start typing in the emergency codes. I’m sending a burst of electricity which shorts out the circuit board in the first hallway which makes it catch fire. Then I tell the system the whole building is on fire. The alarms start blaring and red lights are flashing from the ceiling.  “How long do we have?” Rev asks. “Not long we have to make it to my mom’s room now.”  I tell Rev she makes her way to the door. “You’re going to need a key card to open the door. I know these hallways backward and forward. I can help.” Alexis seems so hopeful. “Well then stop talking and help us. Let’s go!” Rev says as she opens the door. Rev goes first Alexis follows and points the way. Everyone is running from the building. The wellness checkers making sure every person is safe. We run down the hall and Rev Point at the room Alexis uses her keycard to open the door. I rush in the room, I see her cuffed to the wall. My mom’s hair is wet but not the rest of her body is dry. I see a bench and a bucket next to her. She looks like she is sleeping, her face is very pale. “Mom wake up.” I’m trying to pull her metal cuffs. I’m not sure what to do. “How do I get her down?” I scream at Rev and Alexis.  “I’m not sure. The managers are the only ones with the cards and well the five. The five are the only ones who don’t need keycards for the cuffs.” I pace back and forth, “Ava think of something fast! We are running out of time.” I don’t know what to do. “Ava prick your finger.” My mom whispers, she is awake. “What?” I get as close to her as I can. “Put your blood on the cuffs control panel.” I don’t have time to ask questions so I grab the knife out of Rev’s hand and cut my finger. I put my blood on the control panel. All the cuffs unlock and mom drops on to the floor. I scoop her into my arms.

                “We need to go!” Rev says. “How did you do that?” Alexis face is in shock.  The alarms are getting louder. We start to run out. “STOP!” I hear someone yell behind us. “It’s a manager run!” Alexis yells.  We are almost to the open room where everyone else is running out. “I said Stop.” we here the manager yell. My mom isn’t moving as fast she seems weak. “GUN!” Rev yells, all of us stop running to look back. What is a gun? Everyone looks back and I see a metal handle in the manager’s hand. Out of the metal handle came aloud pop noise. Then another and another. Alexis dropped, she had a whole through her head. I don’t understand what happened. Rev runs toward the manager and takes him down to the floor. I turn back to my mom and she is on the floor. She is bleeding out of her stomach. This isn’t good, she is losing a lot of blood. “Mom. Come on you have to get up.” I’m trying to pick her up. “Ava you should have never came for me. You need to go on with Rev.” my mom isn’t getting up. “Mom I can’t run. They will just track me. There is no point, I will not leave you here like this.”  I’m not going to give up I’m trying to drag her out. “Ava you have no barcode.” I stop dragging her. “Yes I know mom I fell out of a tree fell on that branch and it cut my barcode and when I healed you couldn’t see it. I know mom.” This is nothing I haven’t heard before. “We lied to you. You have no tracker. We cut you to hide that you didn’t have a barcode.” I can’t believe what I’m hearing. Why don’t I have a tracker all babies have trackers. My mom is starting to fall asleep. “Mom! Please open your eyes!” she doesn’t want to open her eyes. “MOM!” I scream.  All I want is her to get up. “We have to go.” Rev says as she tries to pull me. “Rev what is happening? Why won’t she get up?” People are screaming around me. “We can’t do this right now. I’m sorry.” Rev says as she lifts me away from my mom and throws me over her shoulder. I don’t want to let go of her. I start trying to push off Rev. I look back at my mom and she is gone, she is no longer there. “Rev STOP she is gone! Where did they take her?” Rev stops and looks back. “We need to run. Trust me listen to me run to the van and don’t look back. GO!” Rev sounds scared. She puts me down and I start running. I hear the pop noise again. I make it to the van, Rev hops into the drivers seat and we take off. I don’t want to go, I just want my mom. How could I have made it this far and not save her? Who took her? 

Random Short story: Seashell in the mail

   I fear my eyes are playing tricks on me. How could this be? I have always thought of myself as reasonable. So how is it that I just seen what I just saw. Now not even my thought make sense. Maybe I just need to replay that day in my head. Let's see where might I begin?
    I got up like any other day. I got ready for work, nothing new always the same. It was when I was on my way to work, that is when I say her. She was standing there at the edge of the bridge with a smile on her face. I'm not sure why I stopped but I thought someone needed to help her. So I tired, "Are you okay?" I yelled as I got out of my car. She looked back at me an laughed. "I assure you I am more than okay." She doesn't seem like she is going to take her whole life, But then why is she standing at the edge of a bridge over a 100 or more foot drop over waters dark and deep. "Okay, do you mind coming down from there and talking to me?"  she continues to laugh. "Why are you afraid? I can hear the fear in your voice?" she is now turned around looking at me. I'm not sure what to tell her. "Well I'm afraid you're going to kill yourself. That you're going to jump off the bridge." she giggled and came down for the edge. "Why do you think jumping off leads to death? Did someone tell you that?"  I think she might be crazy now. It's just fact not much to think about. "That's just what happens when you jump off a bridge this high."  She look back at the edge and starts walking back to it.. Some how i lost her attention. "I use to think that once to. Are you sick of your life?" How could she be asking me that? I'm not the one standing at the edge of a bridge. "No I'm not i like my life just fine. Are you sick of your life?" She looks at me. "I didn't think i was. until one day I seen a girl standing at the edge of the bridge. I stopped to try and help her, i wasn't sure why but i did. When i told her life was worth live she laughed and said life on land is so ordinary. That she longed for the sea. A city down deep beneath where only the good can be. I didn't believe her and she said mother nature either embraces you or rejects you. All that passed away after jumping didn't pass the test. So there bodies showed up, unlike the rest. So she jumped and i was shocked. I looked down and there she was swimming she waved at me. Disappearing into the water. I couldn't shake that day, until yesterday when i got a letter  with a seashell in the mail from the girl. Inviting me to try. There is a place of peace deep beneath. I never seen how unhappy i was until her. I wasn't really living just being a slave to money. but there is no money deep beneath. I just have to pass the test. Am i good or am i bad?" Now I know she is crazy. She runs up to me and hugs me. Maybe she is coming to her senses. She lets me go and run to the edge and jumps.  I run after her and there she is in the water. She is swimming and yelling at me. "I passed!" She disappears into the water. 
   A year later and I had often thought of that crazy day and all the things she had said. Every day for me being exactly the same. Then today i got a letter in the mail with a sea shell. The letter is from the girl. She said to try my luck, to stand at the edge and look in to the dark sea. To have faith but do not jump. Not until a good soul shows up. Tell the good soul of this wonderland and the gates will open and I will have a better life. This is crazy. But here i am stand at the edge. Looking back at a very nice man. Time to jump wish me luck.