Catie was never like the others. Everyone's eyes matched their abilities. Blue-water. Green-air. Brown-Earth. Red-fire. But Catie's eyes were a deep purple. No one has ever seen that color eye before. They thought it was a birth defect but she can't control water, earth, air, or fire. What is with the eyes?

Sabrina has always been deathly afraid of storms. She was like a small dog cowering in the corner at the chorus of thunder. But in this short story you get a glimpse of everything Sabrina feared most come true. She finds herself trapped in the very heart of her worst nightmares.

After her mother died of chronic leukemia, Ebony had nothing to fall back on but her father. She had no friends, no social life, and no individuality. But her father didn't catch her when she fell. He let her slip straight through his fingertips, and he made her promise not to tell. So, she did. Six years she lived alone with her father. There was no escape. But when new kid, Elton Dagger, moves in down the street she is given a key to the prison cell she'd been stowed away in since her mother's untimely death. Is Ebony Dae strong enough to break the promise that changed her entire life?

"She’d been told everybody loved her. She’d been told everybody liked her. If this was true, why did she feel so isolated? Hatred and longing boiled up inside her chest, threatening to burst. It bubbled and hissed. She almost wished it would burn a hole right through her heart. Then maybe, just maybe, she wouldn’t have to put up with it anymore. She wouldn’t cry. She wasn’t even sure if she could. She wanted to, but it hurt so bad all she could do was buckle her knees and collapse onto her bed, her gaze still focused on the mirror." (Please vote if you like!)