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 […]

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 […]

The Girl and Her Stars

It was a beautiful mid-autumn day, but to the girl in the woods, everyday was beautiful regardless of which season it happened to be. The breeze would ebb and flow like the forests’ gentle breath, rustling the trees and shaking loose leaves to fall gracefully. The air would wisp by her ears causing her long […]