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 […]

Loser

For hundreds of years, my ancestors were heroes. 14th Century England, my ancestor Henry Le Despenser led his army against the rebel uprising of the Peasants Revolt in Norfolk. He stopped an onslaught of rebels with his bare hands, according to my Father. In the 16th Century, Lord Maxwell collided with a rival clan Johnstone […]