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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...
10 Jun 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
Hey, Can I snag five minutes of your time? I'm looking for 25 people to help me launch a 3-part speculative fiction anthology series. Based on Old Testament Bible stories, the Biblical Legend Anthology Series features multiple authors interpreting th...
9 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Twenty-six bells, since the pair had boarded Meshmin’s flagship undergalley. Umin stood, rubbing fingers into weary, purpled eye-sockets and pressing tired temples. He is densely shrouded against the tacky salt-dew and chill, in a sombre sea-robe. ...
6 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
The Shir is a beast of burden. In their youth they are diminutive, shapeless fleshy blossom-forms, drifting and filtering the lightless and grim under-flows of the Great Lower Sea. It is in this still unformed, latter quarter of their youth that they...
5 Jun 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Krisz Rokk
His skin could absorb huge amounts of radiation which enabled him to walk for hours in the midst of the day when the sun seamed to melt all the surroundings. Enik’s vibrant and crystal clear blue eyes were shimmering while he walked across the boulev...
3 Jun 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor
After last week's announcement that I've intended to revive the Biblical Legends Anthology Series, it seems the series had a resurgence of interest on Amazon. That's great news. I'm thankful for the interest. If you're one of those who bought the boo...
