Arc 11: Greet Death

The lone butterfly saw the world as splotches of light and dark colours as it flapped along on gossamer wings. To such a small organism the air was like water, thick and viscous, pulling this way and that like a turbulent storm that the butterfly was at the whims of at all times. In order […]

It was a simple room of brick walls and a wood floor. Wildflowers of all colours grew up between the cracks and where the walls and ceiling were broken, flesh pulsated behind it, like this room was a womb.  A massive statue of three people, joined at the waist, sat in the center. The sculpted

I woke up with my cheek pressed against warm sand and the sound of waves rumbling above my head. Warm wind blew through my hair. My fingers dug into the gritty texture as I raised myself up and opened my eyes. The sky was blue and for a second I believed I had somehow arrived

I had been transported to a different place, one where lightning flickered beneath my feet and the ground was like a marsh, soft, pulling me down when I stayed in one place for more than a second. I had to constantly pull my feet out of the muck and place them again.  Waves travelled in

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