The devil hurts your mind, not your body. The rain outside was deafening, the rustling leaves and rough branches scratching against my window only made it worse. I had the tv on in the living
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Don’t let the bed bugs bite
Don’t let the bed bugs bites. “Hello.” It seethed. It was staring, if you could call it that, right through her and into the white void that presided all around. “You’ve had a very bad
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Soil
Soil I heard the first spadesful hit, it pounded and screamed a me, lingering just outside the protection of my justification; its thumping inevitability making me take every breath with overbearing gratitude. The second shovel
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Deploarble Virtue
Deplorable Virtue. There was a village, on a tiny island of the coast of Europe, filled with people. And these people were wonderful. They were loving and kind, they welcomed strangers, fed the poor, had
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Show me rain
Show me rain. The woman walked across the street, violin in its case, yellow cabs streaking by. The rain fell and fell and fell and fell. She was pale, her coat pulled up over her
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The incomprehensible myth.
The incomprehensible myth. The lone Spartan warrior rowed, his muscles rippling and contorting at his back, the sheer force he output propelling his tiny boat further and farther toward the shore. Fear gripped every breath
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Miniaturised
Miniaturised. “There is a bottle, out there in the wild sea that has spawned tales and legends for decades. A bottle so significant and so impossible that it entertains the minds of all who hear
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Flashes
Flashes. Bored. I was bored. Not just bored though, stupendously; unequivocally bored. The teacher at the head of the class kept groaning on about something – I couldn’t remember what class I was in –
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Feathers
Feathers. When white feathers, plucked from their maidens fell, when the ruby liquid of my sisters flooded the ground, when squawks and the innocent man called for our death, I knew my war had been
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Knock Knock
Knock knock. In. Out. In. Out. I breathed, the hot moisture sticking to the fabric that covered my mouth. My goggles were down, my fire selector pointing viciously at the single bullet icon. I tapped
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