As a child, your imagination runs wild. Imagining stories of dragons that breath fire and goblins that stand under bridges—but then you grow up; and it stops. Or maybe it just fades into a tiny voice that speaks up when you close your eyes, just for a few seconds. I want to believe this is […]
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“What the Sea wants, the Sea takes.” September 26th, 2021 – 23:01I hate everything about the world, from its inability to release its arrogance and incessant need to bring everyone down with it. It boils my blood to comprehend that I share the same world and land with the most depraved minds that humanity can
Frankie felt numb. He couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat. He was just existing. “It’ll get better, you just need time.” The therapists said to him, “It’s normal to feel this way after such a big event. It’s grief.” Grief. That funny word, such a small number of letters yet has so much impact in anyone’s life.
I’m stretched out across a page. My words in full view of the watchful eyes—the assessing eyes that stare at my bare being, ready with a pen shaped to scalpel. My joints are snapped, twisted, and removed. My tendons lay exposed, splattered with red ink across paper. Trinkles of meaning roll away, dripping to a
You awaken. Or, more accurately, you are activated. Rise and shine, he says. A cruel joke that loses its sting only marginally every night. There is no ascension from this hell. No light. As your limbs twitch to life, muscles spasming taut against machinery, he gleefully describes your evening’s hunt. Fit, tall and muscular, he
It all began this morning, when I woke up to tend to my herd, and was left bewildered on my front doorstep. The sun had bled all over the morning sky as it clawed its way out from the horizon. All I could do was watch it with a heavy pit in my stomach. It
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