The moment Kiera closed her parents' front door, Jenna looked at her with wide eyes. "What?" Kiera asked, turning her palms up. "I hope...

Title: The Lake I wrote this for a fiction class in 2021. The challenge was to write about a location without using specific words....

Where is my childhood? Cause I’m still a child. Where is my homeland? Cause this world is wild.

Innocence is a moment in time, the flash of a camera, a gasp. And then it's gone forever.