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3 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk
She slammed the door and rushed out into the pouring rain. Her mind could not forget the last words Tony whispered in her ears while all the others were arguing about the upcoming bootcamp. It’s been two decades since Marshall left the group and what...
31 Jul 2023 4 minute read 9 comments Allen Taylor
Today, I'm breaking with my normal routine to post on a Monday to make an announcement. Regular readers know I've been writing about Web3 topics for two years and separately about Christian topics for about as long. On Wednesdays, I curate the top ne...
9 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica
Oh, the days have flown so swiftly by,Since first thy heart I won, And in thine eyes I saw the sigh Of love, which ne'er was done. Oh, the nights have flown so swiftly by,Since first thy lips I pressed, And in thine arms I felt the sigh Of love, whic...
3 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica
The world is weary of the din of war,The clash of arms, the scream of shell and mine;Weary of blood, and weary of the dinOf hatred's voice, and of the lust of crime. Weary of strife, and weary of the tearsThat flow from eyes of women and of men;Weary...
29 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
It is known that after the Paper God had abandoned the Here for the Otherwhere. Its unutterable consort, Sufa the Braided, descended into a maelstrom of horror and unbalance. Shedding tears of salt a thousand-fold more caustic than the anguish of any...
28 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica
I The heart is a blackened coal That burns and smoulders still, And the mind is a barren soil Where no flowers can ever will. II The soul is a caged bird That beats its wings in vain, And the body is a corpse that girds Its shroud about it again. III...
27 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Espressoytonica
In a land that is not my own, I dwell, a stranger alone. The language is strange, The customs are strange, But I'm learning to adapt, I'm not stone. I long for my homeland, For the sights and sounds I hold dear. For the people I love, And the thing...
21 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
He turns from his listless sea-gazing and peers at Pyna, who perches, still as statuary. Her eyes glistening like chips of cracked opal, wandering some unknowable middle-distance. “Do you ever speak, plainly.” Plain is not What Was Proffered. Someth...
19 Jun 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk
Covered by leaves and little tree branches, he laid there barely moving for ten hours when he decided to take a sneak peak and hide behind a bigger tree. The forest was the closest place he could run to hide when Mr. Andrews released the machines the...
17 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Her presence is silent and opaque. A secret place. A piece of porcelain penetralia. A puzzle-box, gazing meditatively out over the sloshing, nighted sea. Umin regards Pyna for a wordless moment, before turning to peer out again into endless, lightl...
