2024-06-12
Part of The New Goddess
3868 words (19 minutes)
My thoughts heave and surge like the tide, flooding, claiming, reshaping the world around me. However, so little of this is my design. The world is clay in my hands, but my hands are not alone, and my hands are not even entirely my own. I recognize Velle’s fingerprints here and there, nudging reality in delicate and subtle ways that contrast with my own wild flailing. Something within me lashes out even at those I love, possibly because I love them. My mind has become a kitchen with too many cooks, all of whom hate me.
2024-06-11
Part of The New Goddess
3316 words (17 minutes)
Not what I would call ideal timing for You to indulge Your hunger, Goddess, I have to say. Did You really have so much faith in the three of us, or have You been lying even to me about how in control of Your urges You are?
Stalking Nina and Velle as they descend through the palace, it’s immediately clear that Velle has regained some of her former self. How much, I wonder? I want to believe that her brusque attitude with the princess is a matter of urgency, and that her heart has not entirely discarded the woman she loved just this morning.
2022-10-03
275 words (1 minute)
Love is pain.
Love is a knife in the gut.
Love is a slimy cord wrapped around your insides, swelling and tightening until you can barely breathe and you’re doubled over, white-knuckling the toilet.
Love is holding your hair back while you vomit your life away.
2022-03-30
Part of The Song
2723 words (14 minutes)
From the once-brilliant First Temple of Lyenne, the light of Wisdom fades out.
2022-03-30
Part of The Song
2717 words (14 minutes)
From the once-brilliant First Temple of Lyenne, the light of Wisdom fades out.
2022-02-13
474 words (2 minutes)
It feels like a tug from another world. One moment, my life makes sense, the pieces my senses feed me all fit together with a satisfying click. The next, I lose my balance.
A standing fall, a wave of vertigo, and everything tilts imperceptibly.
2021-12-23
200 words (1 minute)
Taking the tip of her finger in my mouth, up to the first knuckle. A kiss, then a nibble, and then the slow tension and release of teeth breaking the skin.
Biting off her fingers, joint by joint, savoring the burst of hot fluid between my teeth.
2021-11-18
291 words (1 minute)
The wyrm writhes within your guts, bringing such acute pain that you have to force yourself to bite off the screams your throat involuntarily produces.
You have to remind yourself that you swallowed this thing on purpose—this pain is a necessary step of your symbiotic journey.
2021-11-06
Part of The Song
964 words (5 minutes)
People still speak fondly of the pantheon that was.
It’s not yet been so long that it has passed out of memory, though each year more children are born without the warm assistance of Oriah and raised without the guiding light of Ralles.
To them the stories are just stories.
2021-10-17
213 words (1 minute)
“Never enough. It’s never enough.”
Mad, scrawled ravings and arcane symbols stretch across papers strewn throughout the room. Lines carved in the wood flooring bear the stains of blood and other unidentifiable fluids.
2021-09-12
311 words (2 minutes)
The more she kisses me, the more I get lost in her kisses, unable to think or notice anything else. I cry in pain when her clawed fingers pierce my flesh, but even then it only inspires me to kiss back with greater fervor.
2021-08-10
197 words (1 minute)
She crossed the room leaving a smudge across my vision that no amount of blinking would clear. Her fingertips bled black ink into the air around them. I should have been afraid, but I was transfixed, couldn’t let her leave my sight. I ditched my friends and followed her outside.