Today's Muse
Jenny
In the hushed silence of the forest, 18 year old Jenny felt a primal dread stir within her. The cabin, once a sanctuary, now stood as an isolated outpost against an unseen threat. She had heard her father’s warning countless times: "If the world turns dark, girl, this place is your fortress." Yet she had always assumed it was just his paranoid survivalist streak, a remnant of his military days.
The flash on the horizon had been blinding, like a sunrise compressed into an instant. The boom followed...more>


