Richard Franklin- Swing Vote D5M

Irina walked into the room and sat on the edge of the bed. I looked at her for a minute, unsure of what to say. I tried something, but it stuck in my throat. I cleared it and smiled shakily.

"Good to see you," I said. My voice cracked, and then it came flooding out. Irina bent over me, and I could hear her breath shaking as she opened her mouth to speak.

"I wanted it to be her, too."

Rachel Larson- Let the Good Times Roll D5F

"So did you fix the, uh, you know, or what?"

"What?" the medic asked.

"The thing where I get all weird and act different? You fix those things sometimes when you clone people, right?" I wasn't too fussed either way. I knew my "condition" was unstable, but sometimes in the Games it was the best thing that could have happened to me.

"I'm not really sure. Try getting really mad," the medic said.

Well, thanks.

Kerry Selmosa- We All Fall Down

How was it I kept getting so close? Twice now I'd been in the last handful of Tributes. I wasn't even that strong. How was I simultaneously so much stronger than I should be, but also never quite enough to win? You know what they say: close only matters in horseshoes and hand grenades. Couldn't there at least be a prize for it? Like "good job getting second (or pretty much, when there were like 150 Tributes), so here's a machine gun this time" or something like that? Just meet me halfway here, Capitol.

Logan Quinn- Back To Normal D5M

My friends were here, no doubt, at least some of them. Jay probably won by now, but at least some of the rest of us must still be here. It seemed it gave someone in the Capitol sick pleasure to see a bunch of friends lose each other over and over again. No doubt Jay still thought we could make it through this. Just stick together, he'd say. Our day will come. And yet here we were. Jay, I'm not sure how much longer I can have faith. I'm not sure how much longer I can be a good guy. I'd seen things in my time in the gangs. Good guys didn't live. Bad guys lived long lives. I was starting to think I wanted to live.

Study Furado- The Poseidon Adventure D5F

New Games, new me. This time around, I was going to make some changes. I was going to be a better friend, first off. No more bossing or bulldozing over Wit. I was going to remember to listen sometimes and to let him get his input even if he was hesitant or if I got impatient. New me, remember. Old Study was gone. Time for the new, improved version. Enough time had passed that most people probably didn't even remember me. My family was gone but I didn't want to think about that. Not them being dead. I didn't care about that- heck, I was ecstatic about that. I just didn't want to think about them ever having existed.

Wit Castiglione- The Poseidon Adventure D5M

New Games, new me. No more panic attacks or being scared all the time. I'd been through the Games once, and I died, sure, but now I'd been through the worst. I didn't have to panic about bad things happening since I'd gotten through them once... sort of. Anyway, it didn't feel as scary the second time around. Maybe this time I'd even make it through the Bloodbath. Study was here, too, according to the medics. That made me feel a lot better. At least we were in this together. She was such a good friend.

Gabriel Farad- Power to the People D5M

All these resurrections and they still hadn't cured my deafness. I guess I should have been glad they thought it wasn't a "defect". I was a little happy about that, but at the same time... having a defect doesn't make you a defective person. I couldn't hear, and other people could. That was the cold truth. It did make my life harder, even if I didn't really "miss" what I had never had. I didn't think I would have cared if it wasn't such a disadvantage, but it was. But I guess I didn't even know what it would be like if I could hear. Maybe it was super distracting. Hearing people did seem to get bothered by noises a lot. Sometimes it annoyed me, like "you should be happy you even have it", but mostly it just amused me, like "ha ha, who's disabled now?" If I was a Victor, I supposed I could choose whether to restore my hearing or not. Probably I'd try it, just out of curiosity. I didn't think I'd keep it, though. My life seemed pretty complete just the way it was.