An Unfinished Memory

“I can feel you there, watching me. Are you waiting for me to say something interesting?” The girl says, face shrouded in cloth with only the tip of her nose and pale lips peeking out from under her cloak. “I can feel your body tremble. Your breath, distant. Come, sit with me. The sunset shouldn’t […]

Memento Mori

It was New Year’s Eve in Manhattan, 1999, and someone was about to die. Albert slammed his hand down on the bar, body already wavering back and forth. He slumped his elbows onto the bartop in a vain attempt to make himself look more sober while he gave an upward head nod whenever a bartender […]

The Royal Phoenix

The fire pops and snaps, spitting out bits of embers that dance upward to the night sky. Around the fire sat the children of the Southern Kingdom with their parents and other adults sitting closely behind on roughly cut wood benches patiently waiting to hear tonight’s fable. The old woman, Gran, the village elder, sits […]