I blinked but it stung. My eyes felt red. It almost hurt to look. One more, just one more episode. Yet another film. One last game. How long has it been I wonder. A week? Two weeks, maybe three? How long since I’ve been outside? I think about it, almost everyday. I think about outside […]
The sun peeked out from the edge of the harbor as the once black sky turned to the crimson shade of dawn. The so few clouds that loomed over the city resembled the orange cotton candy sold at the fair. The woman almost felt nostalgic looking up at them. “Doctor, here you are!” Mike, an […]
“Walk faster, or we’ll miss it,” he whispered into the darkness. Calloused hands dragged me to the top of the cliff, the impending sunrise a deadline before our stumbling steps. We waited in the second before it happened, breaths mingling in the cold winter air, eyes struggling against icy winds and sleep, hearts dreading that […]
How I love waking up in the dark— the strange sense of power it gives me to see everyone curled up sleeping tight! The sense of superiority— I did manage to leave the comfort of the blanket. And the competition— I started early, and I am much ahead, yayy! The beauty of dawn filtered in, […]
Perhaps it was the fear of plummeting to the ground, or maybe the immense claustrophobia, or, I suppose, even the fear of small living creatures long ago given the title “insects”. It could have been any of the young girl’s childish yet fully self-explanatory fears that had driven her away from the small tree in […]
The alarm broke through the silent house, stirring him awake. He sighed and rolled over, forcing himself upright. ‘Today’s the day,’ he spoke to his dog slumbering on the floor beside his bed. ‘You ready Jake?’ There was a steady thumping of the dog’s tail as the old man shuffled himself towards the bathroom, pausing […]
The old man and the angel sit, silently, waiting for the sun to rise over the ocean. As the cloudless, indigo sky gives way to burning oranges and reds that spread across the horizon, the old man sighs and shakes his head. “So beautiful…” he murmurs. “It is,” the angel agrees, as it has done […]
In the beginning, there was timelessness, before the dawn of time, and man. There was no time in the beginning. In the ‘now’ there is no measurement of time. On the sixth day, God made Man having already introduced the concept of time (allowing for Man’s finite mind). God took Man to the Garden of […]
My brother is punctual as always. He collects me every day to ride with him in his chariot. After such a long time and endless hours spent together spying on humanity, we haven’t much to say to each other anymore. He doesn’t ask me about my doomed love affairs. We dissected them completely in the […]
Carmen, her brother (not child, as some assumed), and a small backpack of clothes were kicked out of the rectory Monday morning. For the second time in two weeks Helen had found $20 missing from the Offerings for the Poor lockbox. That was #7, just ahead of bearing false witness. Anyway, Carmen had only asked […]
The baby cried. He hadn’t stopped crying. He never stopped crying. “Please,” she whispered as she picked him up for the hundredth time that night, “please, please go to sleep.” He didn’t listen. Still shushing him in the gentlest tones she could, she began another lap around the kitchen island. It was amazing to her that she […]
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