The Cycle CH2 : The Weeding
The scent of fire isn’t something you can get rid of easily. It’s ashy essence coats the back of your throat and manages to stay there for quite some time. I stood there looking out from my window at the grim site below, the land was illuminated in reds and oranges and a cloud of […]
The Cycle CH1 : The Sowing
My family was never satisfied. They hunted for perfection, so much so that we ran out of land but never wants. We were a family of farmers you see, my dad calls us agriculture specialists, a fancy word but farmer is what we were. We spent the entire day staring at an empty patch of […]
Hunger
THE MIDDLE She was a lonely little thing. The girl had been staying in the apartment for a while, it seemed as though she had nowhere else to go. Her day was mostly spent pacing back and forth while running her fingers repeatedly through her hair. She was always nervous, always twitchy. It was early […]
Our Twisted Needs
A metamorphosis of death and desire. . . . With bristles of gossamer Dipped in tar You painted me in pitch black And wrapped me up in scars, Wrapped in the finest of silks Draped in liquid red I was everything that you despised, Yet wanted. Weaved in barbed wires, Luminescent ties, In the […]
CH 7: Conclusions and Cremations
The roof was a damp, messy thing. No better than the rest of the apartment building itself. “Down. D. O. W. N! How hard of an instruction is that to follow?!” I growled, shaking my flashlight for emphasis. “We were supposed to get down the fire escape and leave!” “Pam calm down. You’re going to […]
CH 6: Madness
We stood there, our mouths agape, staring at the macabre scene before us. A chill settled over my bones even as my heart started beating faster. The hunt had begun, and we were already losing. A choked cough startled me out of my panic, and I turned around. Wallace was shaking as he clung to […]
Cliffs, Lights, And Ravens
It was a dreary place. “Cold and windy”, he mused, “but it’s just for two weeks and we could use the money.” “Ah, she’s a right beauty ain’t she?”, the old man growled happily, distracting Thomas from his thoughts. “Um…yes I suppose so.”, he replied quietly. The old, dark, and tall tower was the furthest […]
School Day Blues
“Jordan? Jordan?!” “Present Mrs. Calloway!”, I gasped, looking up from my journal where I was writing. Laughter echoed around me as my friends tease me for drifting off again. And why shouldn’t I write or daydream? Afterall, don’t they keep asking us to be creative and imaginative? I loved to walk around my own little […]
MONSTERS
All alone, The disquiet. We think we are safe at night, In the silence. Do we always forget? We are never alone, at rest. Our fears, nightmares, all that we hide, In a pretty little box kept bedside. It’s not the monsters under our beds, That we must fear. It’s the monsters in our heads, […]
Sharp Teeth Sharp Smiles
Moving places was a difficult business. You always felt you have left something behind, perhaps it was the memories. “Dust. So much dust.”, thought Bernadette as she stared at the massive book lined shelf. “The previous owners must have really liked to read.”, she muttered as dusted them down. Coughing from the work she backed […]
