You fell off your pedestal into the dirt and I rushed to pick you up, dust you off, and put you back. But I stopped at the last moment. I looked down at you for a while and thought to…
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The Pious Priest
I’d seen the Pious Priest from afar many a time. Always angry, always in pain, shrouded in darkness and surrounded by old, dusty books. One day I heard a commotion and for some reason was drawn to it. I saw…
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The Key
I have held on to the key for all these years and have never been brave enough to use it. Or cowardly, most would probably argue. I have held on to this key for so long as it taunted me…
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Retribution
‘Why,’ she screamed with her heart racing. He pushed his hands against the door behind her and leaned forward with an evil smirk on his face. ‘How dare you,’ he uttered grinding his teeth. She turned her head away from…
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Anew
Too many foes over too many years left too many cracks to ever think it could work the same again. But it was never meant to always work the same way. It had to struggle. Evolve. Adapt. Overcome. And so…
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My Last Remaining Bit of You
The creature came in the darkness of the night, as it always had, as I knew it would, following a flood of tears and unanswered prayers to a god I didn’t believe in. There was nothing I could do to…
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Horror
I buried the Sun deep beneath the ocean’s clashing waves and let myself be engulfed in darkness. Life was easier that way. See no beauty, but also no horror. It was a compromise I gladly made. Foolishly, in hindsight, as…
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The Feeling I Get in My Chest
No combination of letters in any worldly language has ever been written or conceived that can at least satisfactorily describe the feeling I get in my chest every time I set eyes on you. View this post on Instagram A…