The Amber House, Main Hall, 1920s

The bar was eerily empty. I was, unfortunately, the first to arrive, which left me with the task of finding a comfortable enough table...

In the realm of the Djinn, warmth emanated from apples. Apples were big fireballs that grew on smoky trees whose size, shape, or color...

The classroom door slams open with the rough tumble of edge only brought upon by teenage girls. It lets in a drafty winter breeze, which...

I dreamt about my sister, dead these many years. It seemed she was in a place of ghosts. In my dream I put my face up to hers and kissed...

Their darling souls, He does not take For it is only their hearts He wishes to save And so at night While they lay asleep, He reaches...

attrition   seventeen lacerations on your tongue  and the bruise on your achille’s heel.  it bubbles in the corner of your mouth,...

There is no other way around it There is no other way to win He/she who commits the most war crimes is the winner It’s automatic Chivalry...

There was a cabin in the center of a grove. Trees like giants. It looked like they were scraping the sky. This cabin sat right in the...

Destruction She runs. She runs and the Devourer hunts her relentlessly. It is a creature of fire and chaos and death. She had bound it...

the moon i see you there, legionnaire i see the pen you bear like the tide i bring in – i surface – all the tears you veneer i see them...

The pine woods creaked lazily in the slightest of breezes as I returned to the cabin. Wood pigeons and songbirds cooed and twittered...

"I need to go out," Emma didn’t care whether anyone in the residence's security staff heard her or not. Everything that happened in the...

un soneto para mi pueblo   escrito en inglés  “when you stand up too fast and start seeing your ancestors.”  – jalain page, ...

your pupils are dilated, like our mother’s when she cried  which wasn’t often, but when she cried– remember when she cried? –it was like...

Unruly Cinders Eyes that criticize Hold unwarranted power,  As they gaze on with reticent anguish, Laying up a store of waste for every...

Footnotes1 Is the dark side of the moon still a thing?  Or, did science already explain it?2  Let’s imagine3 it remains a mystery, and...

Main character of my own life, watching the world go by front seat "I" spelled with a capital letter in English, I learned it watching...

It’s raining The water droplets are nothing but a calm, soothing hug that envelopes my body It’ll all be alright  it whispers, as if it...

Jack received a package on the night of his graduation. It was from his brother, Gabriel — he lived too far away. He opened the package...