Stories tagged “annie”

  • So Her Name's Annie

    I squint up and the warm sower water sears the various bruises, and split lips. That’s right, my bottom lip is split…three times in different places. My back aches as I bend over to reach into my dresser for my school uniform. I don’t...

  • Promise Me

    Hospitals stink of antiseptic. I hate it. Yet here I was, in a hospital, in the room were Annie has stayed now for possibly 10 months. And with every month she has gotten weaker and weaker, fading away from my eyes from the cancer. “Bradley,̶...