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"People qua monsters is a limitless misfortune. You see no light through their cracks and the sun seems to hide when they are at their zenith," he says. "I'm afraid the only cure is what ails them: mortality."

2 26
2020-11-18

"I rescinded the invitation. He does not deserve the dance," Aella says. When she sees the surrounding question-laden faces, she adds, "it's the utmost of gifts. It burns poisons from one's soul & defends future attack."

4 35
2020-08-11

"He spoke of calculus and epsilon. It brought thoughts on the sole recourse," she said, tossing stones into the truck.
"Was cutting his throat truly the only recourse?"
"He's home in hell, isn't he?"

15 78
2020-08-04

She succoured those unable to inherit the monarchy's good health, waiting for quiet nights that belied serenity as visitors demanded a donation. She of the fae, humming poems to the stars.

9 53
2020-07-21

Gremlins are petty creatures w/ a serial notion to blemish those who suffer others in their vortex. You might find your stolen peace embargoed by them from dawn to night if someone calls for aid. Guns won't save you.

4 30
2020-07-14

The Dragonfly was a standard troop and supply carrier. Four hoverbikes were secured to yokes in the middle of the cargo space. Weapons hung on one wall. Rifles. Pistols. EMP guns.

This will do, Val thought.

3 10
2020-07-14

Hearts needn't be decades lived in to feel another's ostensible smile. Scarred books may insinuate being well loved but dulled eyes are born from its opposite.
"Don't stare, little one."
"But a Kraken's going to eat that boy."

5 35
2020-06-30

We met through the book with a broken spine, arctic lights haloing each other's heads from opposite sides of the shelf. It was beautiful as a sun-teased ravine; & the whistling kettle behind made it home.

6 37
2020-06-09

"We are inkblots daubed round the world. No matter how far one's view zooms on another, only our shells may entice strangers. The rest is efficacious upon meeting one's charm."
"You must be fun at parties."

1 36
2020-05-12

She was the cynosure of all light in a room, casting sparks you could feel but never see. I thought I'd witnessed a breakthrough once in the cereal aisle—her resurrection—but only felt the emptiness of a complete stranger then.

2 55
2020-04-28

We are our parents' lissome offshoot, taught to order kindness and grace from others while our centers boil with banned faces. They say to be careful with quiet ones—we shelter pent up rage—but we tend to implode, not explode.

13 50
2020-04-14

We paced on silent concord, hands connected. I think we'd both grown tired of walking around dern shadows for months on end, hoping someone wouldn't find out and tell our parents everywhere we'd been more than friends.

4 25
2020-03-24

"Storms are cantankerous things. They're a million vengeful spirits manifested out of all those books you've dog-eared & torn blank pages from," I spit, a scowl on my face, no doubt. "What? You'd vandalized their graves, you fool."

7 37
2020-03-03

The idea that someone might hear them through the open windows that night had made their lovemaking all the more delicious. How young she had been then, even after her experiences fighting in the war.

3 9
2020-01-21

I traced my consternation along the edge of the roof, imagining the city's landscape shifting the way Yoo Joon's face glitched on his avatar—feeling like a wild thing among that skyline, longing for a lost home never seen.

6 35
2019-07-09