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Other Worlds
Other lands, other places, other creatures, other races. Dragons, elves, all things magic, renowned cities, thriving or tragic. Spells cast, powers gathered, grand adventures and treasures disclosed. For all that’s fantastic in otherworld fantasy, what’s vital in the end is … Continue reading
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Before the Mirror
Day and life gyrated, a breeze dying outside, her anxieties seeking to take hold. Her mind in crisis, she sat cross-legged on the floor facing the one in need. “I swear, I’ll not deny to you what I give to … Continue reading
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Cut As Glass
To be alive, thriving was a dream she wanted close, walking beside her, keeping her from dying again. Tomorrows lurked, threats waiting around sharpened corners, past footfalls echoing behind, each face obscured in the fog chasing. She breathed too fast, … Continue reading
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Life
Was life still life if people’s lives were bled away slowly, if what was stolen was legally taken in slow motion? How was life precious if only some lives were recognized, if only some who died were seen as ever … Continue reading
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What Will Be
Her imagination’s renderings, more or less, were her capturing more than anyone could guess. Her perspective’s interpretation, what she could see, was her dreaming what no one else could imagine seeing. Her sunrise’s inspiration, painted with optimism, was her vow … Continue reading
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Pitchfork
Tumbling out of the aether, landing in another age, a place in time, but a memory removed from the beginning. Middle age, late middle age, old, measures of time, she spied their shadows if she looked over her shoulder, forgetting … Continue reading
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There Were Times
Sometimes her visions of freedom whispered goodbye. Sometimes her heart broke against hatred’s cries. Sometimes she needed to escape the lies. Sometimes she held herself and cried. Sometimes she died inside. Each time—a sigh. Each time she returned to life. … Continue reading
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Pieces
She’d spent half-a-lifetime picking up pieces a man left behind, a man who couldn’t be bothered to ever do the same, the man who treated her with disdain. What if she assembled new pieces, all with her life in mind? … Continue reading
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Spring Dread
Oh the misery, oh the dread, knowing the bugs are coming and some will have eight legs. They’ll laugh, they’ll jest, winking too many eyes and building too many webs. So fiendishly evil, like the undead, they’ll relish their spinning … Continue reading
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The In-Between Places
Where could she go to learn truths? Not to the blank spaces where lies were distributed. Not to the seething places, having already suffered the ugliness lurking there. Better the in-between places where truth was a word. Better written words, … Continue reading
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