From Bone to Blood to Flesh and Back Again
From Bone to Blood to Flesh and Back Again
The sound of the fallen locker door petered out down the school halls. The flower-head didn’t turn around. Its purple petals shifted, each one swapping position from drooping to upright and vice versa. There was no reason for it to turn, it didn’t have a face to see me with. Yet I felt perceived all […]
Each step I took in the dark was a gamble. Every time I placed down my foot there was a moment between stepping off and finding the next step where I hovered in space, uncertain if this was the moment that would have me topple forward with nothing to catch me, spinning out into a
The Hermit’s hand was rough to the touch, skin somehow scoured by the absence of human physical connection, as if he had spent his life only knowing the unrelenting nature of objects hard and mechanical. At the moment of contact, the world went black. I saw nothing, felt nothing but the hand, and then even
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My boots crunched through the upper crust of icy snow, sinking me deep into heavy powder. Every step I took through the treeline was draining, as I had to lift my boot and the snow that clung to it with every step. The snow was strange. More prone to rising on the wind, often completely
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– Two months before the formation of Nell’s Lacuna – I stepped out of the car and the smell of burgers and fries immediately hit my nose. In other circumstances my stomach would be rumbling, but I wasn’t here for food. “Nervous?” Bo, with his sandy hair and relaxed smile, leaned against his freshly washed
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I was face to face with the spawn of Nell’s Lacuna. The colours of the flower-headed creature settled into a pure white as it stood eerily still. The edges of the petals were softly round and the center became a bright yellow. “You’re a dandelion,” I said meekly. “I’m a mistake,” the Dandelion said. Its
AJ stayed with me as I recovered from my momentary connection to the Goddess. We took some semblance of shelter from the snow under the statue of a bear with a fish in its mouth. The lights that illuminated the statue at night caught each snowflake as it drifted down. It almost felt like ashes.
Hour 1 I pressed my cheek against the window of the car partially because it was crowded in the back seat and partially because it was the only way I could see just how many meteors were tearing through the sky, headed for the city skyline in the distance. Everyone had fallen silent, unable to
“You two were everything I’d hoped you would be.” The Herald spoke through our minds, like he himself was a Beacon, pulsating with spiteful thoughts. Chase shook his head, unbothered by the sudden arrival of this monstrous man. “Here I was hoping you would speak all old-timey. Anyway I have so many questions I want
The car came to a rest on its roof, black streaks painted across its path to the shoulder of the road. The broken glass on the road reflected something green and I looked up to see the newly formed imperfect sphere, like a piece of deep, earthy green seaglass growing distant in the sky. She