Chamber of Horrors
The glowing sepia room was crammed with objects from a virgin century past. Aanteekwa saw faded medical sketches plastered to the cracked, abused skins of the dingy brown walls. Deformed, yellowing...
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Aanteekwa felt something whirring inside her pocket: she jammed a sweat-slicked hand inside and extracted her compass. Peering at the gold-ticked dial, she watched as the needle pointed to a shadow in...
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Babyface sauntered over to the stranger and stopped only a couple of inches in front of his face. I made the heartbeat stop, he declared. Aanteekwa swore that she felt a frigid wind blow in the fjord...
View ArticleLitany of Scars
The room tore itself apart at its unseen seams. The floor mumbled and rumbled its discontent while the ceiling thundered open a giant hole in its center, through which a rageful, red-eyed morning sun...
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The needle inside Aanteekwa’s compass stirred from its sleep. Vertigo spun the lithe gold line, a pitcher’s arm forever winding until it stopped, like halted breath from flattened lungs, and pointed...
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Electricity lifted Fishnet’s body until he was burning breath, a lithe leaping fire fluttering in mid-air. He shut his eyes into two flat dashes with dark lashes, double-m Morse code for his mute mouth...
View ArticleHow the Light Got In
A sun drop glistened gold and then birthed a brazen serpent; it spun, and then wrung itself out of the thick shimmering skin where it had been gestating beneath the open socket in Aanteekwa’s belly. It...
View ArticleHurt
D.S. peered into the brazen orange sky and asked: Where did he go? His question lingered in sotto voce darkness, veiled from the crowd, the water serpent rendering a blue mirror line in the landscape,...
View ArticleI Mbosa A Láimhe
The sun cast off its persimmon veils that drenched the morning sky, fading the lapis around its face into watercolor joy. Its golden crown points of light cracked open the blue above the travelers’...
View ArticleThe Alchemist
Daylight gave up her gold. A sliver eye silver moon hung above the travelers’ heads, a lone opal crescent amongst firefly diamonds twinkling tiny tinkling glee inside an inky river of prayers. Babyface...
View ArticleThrough a Dream, Darkly
Aanteekwa felt something whirring inside her pocket: she jammed a sweat-slicked hand inside and extracted her compass. Peering at the gold-ticked dial, she watched as the needle pointed to a shadow in...
View ArticleTransmutation
Electricity lifted Fishnet’s body until he was burning breath, a lithe leaping fire fluttering in mid-air. He shut his eyes into two flat dashes with dark lashes, double-m Morse code for his mute mouth...
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