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30 Jul 2025 9 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
The simplest truth was that Pyna had grown bored. That she had wearied of her own voiceless companionship. And of the unmoving gallery of lifeless sun-blots that she had for years, endlessly ruminated upon. Frustrated, and yet at last somewhat recon...
27 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Prompted Beauty
Click to animate The rain in Neo-Kyoto wasn’t water. It was a hemorrhage of data, crimson streams bleeding from the sky-bound servers that choked the stars. It slicked the permacrete alleys and painted Elara’s face in the colour of a fresh wound. T...
25 Jul 2025 5 minute read 0 comments AserC
Okorie was torn apart by Chuka’s remarks. The love lyrics Chuka released kept burning his head with feelings of loss and defeat. He walked back home dejected, his movement being even as slow as that of a snail. He really felt like a chicken pounded b...
25 Jul 2025 10 minute read 0 comments AserC
It rained and stopped before Akoga people started streaming into the village square for the farmers’ festival. It was an annual festival which farmers in Akoga looked forward to attending, as it afforded them the chance to display their farm products...
22 Jul 2025 10 minute read 0 comments AserC
Okorie and Ada met at Ama after he had paid her and her mother a visit the previous day. It was in the evening. An evening that was a bit windy and made leaves sing tuneless melancholy music while rustling. Ama was a popular spot in Akoga. Just a bit...
20 Jul 2025 7 minute read 0 comments AserC
Iweka came out of his little barn with one tuber of yam in his right hand. He shut the door carefully and took one last look at it again before walking away. This was necessary to make sure that none of his two goats that roamed the compound would ha...
18 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments AserC
An African star apple tree stood at the center of the vast compound that lay sprawled in clusters of thatched mud houses, some bigger than others. The biggest, inhabited by Amanze when he lived. It was a night of vast silence and the gigantic barn of...
16 Jul 2025 8 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Elsewhere and otherwhiles… A year passed. Then two, since Nimblethorne’s reticent departure. Pyna slipped down, down into doldrums of despond. Mostly melancholy, and somewhat mad. She would arise, as was her custom, with the twin moons. When the in...
11 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Pyna stood, and swept slowly over the powdery onyx sand-crest, soft as a sultry mist. A wraith of milky marble and ribboned jet. Do not Stray Far from Me Umin pressed his frost-light deep into his boot and drew his short-blade with a resigning sigh....
29 Jun 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist
Pyna blinked abruptly, and birdlike, startled. As with a shout, Umin tore himself away from her touch. Her cracked-glass gaze, wide and ablaze. Oh… That was Unforeseen. Umin rolled away. Retching sourly into the stark, obsidian-dark sand-piles. “H...
