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Her Perspective

She shuddered as the blood ran circles around the drain. The tap was getting hotter, and steam started rising from the sink. A small gasp escaped her as she pulled…

The Abomination

A Sudden darkness quelched the dinful banter of the square. Voices fell away into silence as the beast's horrible, shrieking cry filled the air. The people looked up, could not…

Logic of Pain

Pain consumed him. It burned from his head to his feet, like some sort of explosion. There was no time under the machine's ray, only boiling, searing heat. Then, eternity…

Sinus Infection

Okay, I'm sick. Sinus infection. Not fun. Missing work, but not being creative. Not reading or doing anything that requires a modicum of mental focus. Feel like a complete degenerate.…

A Tale

I don't know how to get there, or what there really is, but I can tell you what was told me by a ragged man wandering down that mountain. Through…

One More Step

There stands then, one more threshold, one more step, as it were, the taking of which will prohibit any retrogression. There is no repentance beyond this point. You will have…

Of Hope

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I danced with you in what seems to be a dream, a dream from long, long ago. You whispered something in my ear, a question I can't recall, but my…

A Hard Road

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I walked a long and weary road to find you here beneath the earth, beneath a stone, beneath your name. I found your grave. I felt such shame. I wept,…

Smiling in the Dark

The smiling thing in the darkness of my dreams perturbs me. Is it just a smile, a wicked, spreading smile filled with laughter and delighting in some secret-kept malice, or…

A Quiet Rest

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The dream grows so faint now, and the obsidian spire, so like a darkened gash, rises in the sky, a starless darkness, and the silence of this pointed rock chills…