Tick, or tock?Ring, or knock?Left, or right?Fight, or flight? Up, or down?Smile, or frown?Yes, or no?Stay, or go? Black, or white?Day, or night?Live, or die?Truth, or lie? So many simple decisions that led to this moment, that will lead to the next moment, and never stop. This or that leads to that or this. Will […]
The familiar chatter of children echoed throughout the hollow classroom. The lighting flickered from glowing orbs, the color of lemons, which were placed throughout the room. Devon sat in the far back, at a peculiar desk covered in pencil marks and scratches. Everyone else’s desks were completely identical: slight discoloration with a 3 carved into […]
I stood and observed the paint-chipped, ruby red door, confined by the cottage’s fatigued stone brickwork. The sun’s rays bore down furiously, augmenting the shine of the gilded lion’s head, which exhibited its teeth in a permanent display as if to ward off any potential wanderer that chose to disturb the cottage’s content bubble of […]
As the most trusted maiden of the queen, I was a role model to all younglings. But no one could teach better than the queen. From her significant journeys she has taught all under her rule that no one can ever be trusted. She’d made decisions that she regrets and ones that she smiles upon. […]
It was time again to visit my father at Cornerstone Home. He had been a patient here for seven years; his quick deterioration meant I needed help. Lewy body dementia stole all his prized memories, leaving behind well-formed hallucinations and a long trail of delusions. A once soft-spoken man, now prone to fits of anger. […]
I have been sitting here for hours playing game after game. I stare at the ivory chess set laid out in front of me, contemplating my next move. I move a pawn two squares forward before turning the board around and moving a white bishop to take an opposing pawn. Playing against one’s self is […]
I watch the lacy wings of my grandmother’s favorite butterfly, letting the sun rays stream through the gauzy curtains and shine upon her wrinkled face. My grandmother, the keeper of my heart and the bearer of all my woes. She told me once that once we leave this earth, we walk along the golden-paved paths […]
Ivaila’s eyes were pooling up and spilling from all the yawning. She hadn’t slept in almost two weeks and she didn’t know if she could take it much longer. She had been taken to The Cage for isolation from the outside world and They had never told her why. She had been told that it […]
Witches on walkways, in alleyways, in all the ways they can be: with spray paint holstered at the hip, eyeliner brandished with a battle cry. You watch them from the other side of the street, from the Chinese restaurant where you eat grease-coated egg rolls with your mother. You wonder what it would be like […]
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