From the day I was born, I was beautiful. It was a compliment I’d received so frequently that it no longer felt like a novelty, just a natural response out of some arbitrary respect for my appearance. At some point, I didn’t even bother to respond to such compliments aside from a small smile, or […]
Category: Short Story
ACCOUNT 1: An old envelope sealed with the seal of Dyfinea in a plain wooden box that was buried in the dirt on the kingdom’s border, the paper yellow with time. On the outside, the envelope reads “Arana,” the name of the first dark queen, and the letter inside it is signed “Ina,” the name […]
Bryce hates hiking. His legs hurt from going uphill, and he is terrified of heights. He would do anything to get out of climbing a mountain, which is why he sat staring at a wall of pamphlets in a gas station, trying to find a way out of climbing his first 4,000 footer with his […]
“Daddy, wait,” I pleaded, pulling the delicate string on my nightstand lamp to counter the darkness in the room. “What about a bedtime story?” He stood in the doorway, his hand still on the doorknob. The warm glow of the lamp illuminated his face in such a way that he appeared more tired than I […]
There I was, standing pitifully in front of the wreckage of the world. An unremarkable grain among the ruins of the fallen metropolises. A blur along the horizon, polluted by the soot and rot of the city I had once roamed. And there you were, the most beautiful thing left in this destroyed world. […]
Lia let go of her luggage with one hand and ran it through her raven-black hair as she searched the platform for the best place to load her luggage. Being new to Hogwarts this year, she was determined to hide that fact as much as possible. Due to her parents’ apathy, she had not been […]
Colors and numbers. Numbers and letters. Letters and colors and sounds. Swirling and swirling and dropping him into an endless abyss. Falling. Faster. Faster. Terminal velocity. What was that word? He didn’t remember. Terminal velocity. What did it mean? He didn’t know, but he thought it was the right word. A shift. The world turned […]
I looked at my screen in shock, but also a little in awe. When I tried to divert my attention out the window, onto the turbojet, I couldn’t help it when I failed and my gaze fell back to my computer. My breath quickly became shallow as I absorbed the story laid out. On the […]
