The moment that shattered me was violent and sudden and ripped half of me away, melting the stubs of bones that jutted from blackened flesh. It was an oblivion. It swept away the city in which I lived and scored patterns into stone and flesh and the survivors rotted in their skins, some painfully over […]
I age, it is an eternal deep age, down deep within me, I know I do not belong here. They smile at me and feed me and move my limbs, one at a time. Sometimes they stick me with with needles so thin I mistook them for hairs initially. What ever it delivers burns with […]
Pretty were they sitting there in slight and ill fitting linen dresses, like a garden of flowers, each was a pastel hue and the sent of the alcho pops and sticky mixers, leant them the fragrance of blooms. Clouds of blue misted up above their heads as they sat and thought and dwelled on their […]
UD sat in the orphanage looking out at the stark grey city scape, the dreary half light of the dismal day was nothing compared to the splendour of the light jewelled night. Of course it was not called an orphanage, that was an old term and not allowed. It was called the childrens home and […]
I was horrified at just what a state my pelt was in, being with the other group we hadn’t thought much on physical presentation. The mental images we had of each other was that of when we first met, back when I was putting the teams of volunteers together. Now with new people about I […]
Cats Minni waited by the door, she was getting hungry the Lady had left earlier with the Other Bigs. The Lady had looked distressed, Minni was worried. The Others had tied the Lady into chair that moved. Minni knew tying up when she saw it – the Lady had once rescued her after the Small […]
The office was unbearably hot, the aircon had died and due to the scorcher of a summer they were having the shops were all out of new units! Samantha sighed and stretched in her swivel chair, she was drenched in sweat already. It didn’t help that the window was actually nailed shut! Her micro-managing boss […]
We froze, someone hiccuped, the bang came again and again and then we heard the desperate voices. ‘Is there anybody there? Please, PLEASE?! Help!’ I was the first to move as I jumped over boxes to the door, my lecture was there moments after with a weapon, we opened the door with some difficulty due […]
‘When they begged for mercy I cut them to shards a piece at a time. You ask what I feel about the monstrous actions I took and I tell you sir that they were not monstrous but beautiful and just. How dare you speak of mercy and torture – You who have glued my face […]
My dreams were weird and chaotic, a hunger burned within me and shadows of memory stirred within but I could not catch. My dreams were not good, I stabbed my father with a chisel and buried all the small bodies who writhed and cried and called out to me. I was drenched in ice and […]