October Challenge - "The alarm wasn't supposed to go off yet."

This is one dream put into words. A story about a girl who lost so much, trying to work it out and deal with the situation. Yearning for the truth but never being close enough. Wishing things played out differently.

Little sad and heavy.

Our World is gone, Now... Ellis is all we know.

Shackled in a basement, she is at the mercy of a serial killer with a lethal fondness for wordplay. The Riddler has left a trail of bodies, innocent women in his wake, and she is his next victim. She is running out of time - to free herself, she must find the answer.

In The Alarm Wasn’t Supposed to Go Off Yet,Jenna is abruptly awakened at 3:00 a.m. by an alarm she didn’t set and strange footsteps in her house. Alone for the holidays, she’s spooked but determined to investigate. Her fear escalates when she finds her phone missing and the back door slightly ajar. Her phone soon pings, mysteriously appearing in the backyard, with an eerie message from an unknown number: “Don’t be afraid. I had to leave, but I’ll be watching.” Intrigued and unsettled, Jenna follows a magnetic urge to the street outside, where she encounters a hooded figure holding a long-lost bracelet of hers. The figure slips away after a final message on her phone: “Until next time.” Jenna returns to her empty house, heart pounding and mind racing, realizing this encounter may just be the beginning of a mysterious and chilling connection.

all that Gen wanted to do was help her family survive, however she found herself stealing from the princes’ palace, suddenly terrified for her life.

A harried educator is startled awake unexpectedly by her alarm only for her to learn that the alarm held a completely different purpose.

Mark and Diana's night becomes overwhelmed with a French plot to take over their premises.

After getting unexpectedly woken up by her alarm, Loretta finds that she is alone. Not just in her home, but in her town.

a street thief gets told to preform a heist and all his crimes will be forgiven, but will they?

Kira works with her ex Henry one more time to take the biggest haul of all.