Creative
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If I was utterly bewitched by you
Chapter 2 || Hazel Windsor The girl in front of me looked like she was about to die of laughter. I did not know why, did not want to…
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HEINA IV
HEINA IV The crackle came again. It was a sound that was barely audible, not loud enough to surprise me, but also not clear enough to make…
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Calla
The snow was stained a beautiful scarlet. I dropped to my knees, pulling off damp gloves to pack it tightly in little moulds meant to resemble snowmen. Though with…
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mother, i miss spring already
mother, i miss spring already TW: implications of death and blood opal eyes glared at me, it was the eyes of a “florist” that pierced my sight, but…
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Horn and the Golden Beast
Autumn, as they prepare for the harsh winter ahead, the unicorns grow coats of shimmering golden fur. The horn upon each forehead becomes whiter than snow. They wash their…
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Last Goodbyes
Last Goodbyes [The view is hazy before clearing: a vague memory of a summer afternoon. An outside corridor stands before us, bright with sun. It’s not really called…
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It’s Cold
It’s Cold “Damn it…” Paris never bothered to check if the restaurant was closed on a holiday. So we were left there in the cold, two…
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Winter Spent as Cato Johanson
Winter Spent as Cato Johanson “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Attributed to […] His car broke down this…
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101 guide to a birthday
101 guide to a birthday The candles are finally blown out. The knife sinks into the cake, but never reaches the bottom. The noodles must remain long, unbroken,…
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To Give Up The Ghost
He knelt at the grave. The dirt clung to the sides of his trousers, the grass beneath was wet. He repressed the urge to shiver. Seth had felt…
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One Look
CW: Violence, mention of alcoholism “You’re not from around here.” The cashier said. He had flat eyes and a buzzed haircut, tattoos wound around his arms, piercings in…
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Reverie of Elysia
Excerpt from “Reverie of Elysia’s Discovery” (2103-2112) The prevailing assumption is that Elysia, if it exists at all, occupies space—a plane of existence either within that in which…
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If I am utterly bewitched by you
Chapter 1 || Eleanora Halls “Wha-? We have a new student…? The teacher never told us anything, though…” The loud chatter dimmed to a hushed but piercing whisper as…
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The Girl in the Green Atmosphere
In the summer of that December, I stood beside you, bare feet, the cold water washed over our ankles as we watched the creeks slither. I was seventeen, and…
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Solstice Fall
I: Starship Earth The Solstice and Nightfall have been travelling through space at near-lightspeed for eighteen and a half years. They move in tandem with the ghosts of…
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HEINA III
I couldn’t bear it. I reread the same sentence in my journal five times and couldn’t remember a word of it–unable to rid the thought that the system might…
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Unawake
Another sleepless night. This is my seventeenth sleepless night in a row. What I’m saying is not insomnia, because I knew that experience from university. I haven’t slept for…
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Stay?
When it was good, it was very, very good. There was an ease in the way they existed around each other that was akin to planets in orbit— constant,…
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Anabasis
TW: Physics They say it was a positron leakage, as Meyrin, Switzerland, went off with a bang. A collision between any particle and its anti-particle partner leads…
