Bittersweet Panic Novels & Stories

I feel like dying! "Madam, can't you release the app? I want to use it now!"

**The Bitter Truth** The car's engine hummed, filling the tense silence as it hurtled down the dark, winding road. Sophia's heart raced, her mind a tangled mess of fear, anger, and confusion. The night outside the windows was pitch black, the world beyond reduced to fleeting shadows and blurred lights. Beside her, Ethan sat rigid, his gaze locked forward, as if bracing for an impact that had yet to come.

Take care, kiddo. Love always, Aunt Kim Blinking, I read the note again and the taste of bile in the back of my throat makes me rush to the sink to get a drink before I throw up. Is this actually happening? Turning around, I sink onto the floor and lean back, handles on the cabinet biting into my back, but the pain hardly registers. I sink down, tears blurring my vision, and all I can do is take in a breath, hold it, and let it out. My heart is racing so fast I can hear it in my ears, and vomit rises in my throat, tight from the threat of bursting into tears. I guess the only good thing about being in a complete state of shock is the lack of reaction.

Her heart started beating very fast remembering some horrible incident. " I won't take you into the play. You will hurt the baby just like you hurt me," Orni screamed and started crying badly. She is behaving like she is going to have a panic attack. She tried to run away when VR held her hair tightly and slapped it across her face. She started bleeding from her lips but she didn't care anything. She tried to run away when VR held her and forcefully laid her down on the bed. He gave an angry look to Orni and she started screaming like a mad girl.

She rubbed her eyes and looked utterly confused. "What is going on?" I shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe there was a system error or something lagged?" Melinda suddenly screamed at the top of her lungs and flung her phone angrily to the floor. Her eyes were bloodshot as she glared daggers at me, looking like she wanted to kill me. "Melissa Bolton! You did this to me! You destroyed me!" I blinked my eyes innocently at her. "What do you mean, Linda? I don't understand what you're saying."

"An entire district?" Bima's voice was a choked gasp, the words tearing past a throat suddenly constricted by icy fear. His blood ran cold, but a horrifying warmth, cloyingly sweet, was already seeping into his senses, overriding the primal terror. The air around them, moments before merely charged, now pulsed with an almost tangible sweetness. It was the Nectar, no longer a subtle whisper, but a deafening roar in his mind, promising ultimate bliss, dissolving all resistance.

Pre-Market Panic **Benita Hayes** The sharp, mechanical buzzing of our cheap prepaid smartphone woke me at exactly 6:15 AM, the harsh sound vibrating violently against the bare wooden floorboards of Room 3B. The small apartment was already blazing hot from the massive commercial bread ovens operating directly below us, the thick, heavy scent of baking rye, sweet yeast, and toasted flour hanging like an immovable curtain in the dim morning light. I rolled over slowly on the bare mattress, my shoulder muscles aching fiercely from the cramped, unyielding space of the floor, and looked over at Adrian. He was already completely awake, sitting cross-legged near the foot of the bed with his rolled-

Like this faint ethereal essence is illuminating from within me. I look back up at him, and he feels me starting to panic. He’s worried, thinking he did something wrong. I notice that my bite mark on his neck isn’t healing, it’s scarring over, shaping into something permanent. That really shouldn’t be possible. My panic is starting to rise, bleeding into my limbs. I can feel my body getting heavy, like I’m being pushed down to the earth by some kind of outside force. I can’t speak. ‘Jax!’ I scream into his mind, panicking.

My breath comes in rapid gasps against the pain smothering my scream. I thrash, but he doesn’t move. He’s solid as a rock. My whole body goes into panic mode as I feel the warm deep voice caressing the shell of my ear and I go berserk. “Block me again, and I’ll fuck you so dumb you’ll forget how to use your phone.”