Broken in the woods the aluminum pole that had once been a black and gold hiking stick lay. The leaves half covered it before anyone arrived looking for it’s young Mistress but unfortunately by that point she was many miles away and on the verge of death. The police bagged it up like a dog […]
The Maiden’s Dream (first published on Turquoise Monster) Green and leafy forest light Watching over maidens plight Purple night dark and cold Witches plot, evil bold Red rose lips cold to touch Drank the poison with her lunch Black and dark the misery sleep Hoping waiting faeries peep Greying hags place dragon there The maiden […]
Light Through the Window (first published on Red Monster) The light coming through the window is milky white and the light insipid, the girl sits at an equally dirty grey laptop writing, wondering when the lunch bell will ring and release her from the torment of getting those sticky thoughts she can not abide down […]
I stand on the brink of the world, here in the mountains were I can see the pin pricks of light and the ghostly forms of leviathans I know to be the cities buildings, ribbons of lights show me were the transportation arteries flow. I try not to look at the sky, I know what […]
Elsa followed her mother out of the door, Dad was gone, she wasn’t sure where, just gone, ‘I can no longer look after you,’ the woman said in a tone as dead as the autumn leaves that still littered the floor. She was wearing the coat her gran had bought her before the fuel prices […]
People had pushed back the boundaries, repeatedly done the impossible and strived to move onwards and upwards. Stella was born in an age of inter galatic travel, she was upload and cyborg and a teenager. Her parents had been star hippies living on asteroids that float and drift between the systems. She was named for […]
Elsa walked along the beach of black gritty sand, the glass knife in her webbed fingers gleamed with wetness she had killed the shark, it was on the beach where none would touch it regardless of the amount of meat it held. Not once she told the elders about the attack anyway. Out of the […]
The dragon flicked it’s tail, a short impatient motion, and sighed heavily through it’s large cavernous nostrils, it was of course asleep and dreaming of days when it had once soared through the air and of the cataclysm that had trapped it here. The sky itself had seemed to collapse in on the creature and […]
The grit stuck to her eyes, made them itch and burn, the humid heat pushed down crushing her lungs from the inside. Another brick was added to the load, her knees wobbled painfully. The smell of the flickering flame in the lamp, acrid and throat burning but it would not go out if it got […]
Whittling Wood (first published on Red Monster) I watched Dad for a long time, the way he would whittle the wood, lifting it regularly up to his eye staring in a vague concentration. He only had a penknife to fashion his little miracles out of the chunks of wood he brought home from the wood […]