Tag: writing

• July 15, 2025

  A Trance

  I shuffle my boots, dancing behind ruffled golden hair. The floor taught me the beat, but a trance is out there. The music rolls on, as I walk past a drunk crowd. In two sections they stand, as loudness gets loud. I feel a long trembling; it’s something awry now spawned. Beguiled in this trance,…
• July 15, 2025

  Chapter 3

  A wisp of dust swirled and then scattered across the ruins of ash and molt.  The clouds finally gave way to the blue of the heavens and the little creatures of the earth that survived the blaze, at last emerged from their hidden dens.  The smell of the fires was swept away with the passing of the…
• November 4, 2024

  Chapter 2

  Sajaf felt the swelter of the heat even as day crept into dusk.  She had woken late from her slumber, the innkeeper loud and the customers boisterously speaking over the walls.  It was then as she looked through her window, that Sajaf still the smoke pooling in darkness over the mountains.  Everyone at the market had seen in…
• June 25, 2024

  Orbit

  A green jetpack, all reaching, slings me into space. I left my martian boots below and that plutonian mask. They weighed me down for so long once, but I let it drift down that river, Stix. It’s where the past belongs. Jupiter, I see it, the grandest of them all. Thunder-eyed, the storm gazed my…
• June 3, 2024

  Chapter 1

  Dawn cut into day as the wreckage and the smoldering heap of the village beneath Shadowfoot lit the morning with an insatiable blaze.  Blood and bones, bodies heaved and cleaved, torsos gutted and leaking, arms and legs and heads scattered in piles, and the crows already at their feast.  It was the caws and beaks snapping that echoed into…
• August 26, 2022

  Sinewy Threads

  I find myself alone again. There in my thoughts, it’s a familiar friend. Where I isolate towards that forlorn state, Aloof my soul, how I ruminate! In spite of those eyes that look me deep, And sweet words that she softly speaks. My heart turns to this other place, Where thoughts meet keys in this…