Lily

Female | Teen | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 10

EXTRACT: And the shells were glowing and all of a sudden one of them took off from my hand in this huge rush of energy. And I could tell it wanted me to go with it and I could have. And it grew and grew into this big flying being of light and I could have gone with it... I could have gone then... (Pause.) But... I got scared. And as soon as I had that little scared thought, everything was sucked from me. Like a giant cosmic vacuum cleaner..

Lily

Female | Teen | 3 to 5 minutes
Starts on page 1

EXTRACT: Anyway, it became an incident because I wanted these particular smoked almonds. They're my favourite - a little expensive but worth it in my opinion. But in all the frenzy I picked up... something. I think it was an apple. It seemed kind of solid and... and steady in that mad place. Round, whole. But I forgot I had it and I just sort of... left. Its all sorted out now. Security chased me down the street and I had to go back and explain.