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CW: mental illness, childhood trauma. Because being Danny is suffering.
5 Years Ago
Wind raked over the hill, over the branches and the leaves and the tree trunks, warping around the obstructions and adding dimension to its shapeless expa...
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50 Years Ago
Alistair waited for his father. And waited. And waited. And waited. Th...
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Fifty Years Ago
Alistair laid in the dungeon, ankle chained to the floor, playing with fire. He gathered it in his hands, a spherical pyre, and then divided it into smaller orbs, rotated them around him like planets...
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Lacy’s chest was hollow, and her head heavy. Her fingers twitched, and Danny’s grip on the gun pulsed. His hands were shaking- he hadn’t had a drink in a while. He was afraid.
Good. He should be.
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She found herself in a cylinder, glass on all sides, closing at the bottom and narrowing at the top ...
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After a day spent training, Lacy’s arms were heavy as lumber, and moving her legs was like dragging a forest behind her. It was the good kind of sore, a day’s labor in a worthwhile pursuit, filling her with endorphins and keeping her mind clear. Sweating...
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They had a week to prepare, and Lacy wanted to use as much of that week as possible for training. And so, the next day, she rolled out of bed and plodded through the...
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Gwen walked away from the castle, away from her home, away from the light of the Four Moons. Soaked in her family’s blood, she sterilized the wounds with alcohol and followed her Star into the east, in search of what cam...
2023-12-14 18:03:26 +0000 UTC View PostThey drove until sunrise, at which point they found another motel. They stayed in during the day, and Lacy tinkered with the hotel’s clock radio until she found her way onto the police broadcasts. High numbers of disappearances plagued the country. Sightings of deformed humans with rotting skin and red eyes made local news, and nobody seemed sure of what to make of it.
Another day passed, followed by another night of driving. Gwen continued to fill her in on the long, sordid history o...
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She finished the ascent, reaching the roof of the castle. The remainder of her family waited for her there, beneath the light of the four quarter-moons. Her father, tall and pale and proud, and her mother, sturdy and...
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Isabella heard the whistle of an incoming train as Gwen charged at Alistair. She screamed, but the howl of the locomotive drowned it out.
The fox ran past her again, like it was trying to catch up with the train.
Isabella knew she shouldn’...
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Lacy wanted to run, but Gwen was paralyzed once again. “GWEN COME ON!” she screamed, but her mentor did not budge. “GODDAMMIT!”
A portal to burst through the air, out of which Isabella stepped. Isabella started, “What’s-” 2023-12-11 17:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Gwen stood at the base of the castle, beneath the light of the fractured moons. Snow snaked through the air, coiling around her like a Medusan halo illuminated by the cosmic wrath of her Star. With one foot, she approached the Castle, black iron beneath the ever-night. She lowered the other foot and began her journey inside.
The door opened for her, like it had been waiting.
Iseult played on the first floor, making her dead pets dance across the ground. Gwen wasted no time and put...
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Tristan, weak, powerless, directly below her on the cursed totem pole of their family, waited on the stairs that led up to the roof. He had a rifle across his lap, had it cocked and aimed as sh...
2023-12-08 18:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe second floor of the castle was where Morganna slept. This was the one Gwen had been looking forward to the most. Morganna waited for her in her room, a den of snakes and viper carcasses’ all feasted upon by an unkindness of ravens. They followed Morganna everywhere, just as the murder of crows followed Gwen close behind.
The crows flew in first to attack the ravens; the crows were smaller, but smarter and more vicious. The smaller birds feasted on their larger brethren throughout ...
2023-12-06 19:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostInglewood, CA- 2 Years Ago
Ghouls in California were a relatively new phenomenon.
Isabella had found, upon her return, that the world had not changed appreciably in many ways, but that in other ways it assuredly had. Perhaps it was that she had changed, become more aware of the world and its workings, and thus she saw things more clearly. How they truly were. How they’d always been.
Or maybe she was just jaded.
Nobody believed her about elves, obviously. She hadn’t...
2023-12-04 18:39:37 +0000 UTC View PostA murder of crows followed her as she stalked her prey. She led the Wild Hunt through the night, during the change of seasons, the liminal time. Her compatriots were men and elves and all things in between, and the crows followed their hideous wake for regular meals.
They rampaged through the fields of Europe, flying on the wind and carving scars into the land, ripping trees from their bases and sending dust and ash and snow exploding all around. A million souls cried out with each mile...
2023-11-30 17:23:24 +0000 UTC View PostIt was her.
How could it be her?
It wasn’t possible- she was dead. Elaine died. Gwen had seen the body.
Did I? She thought. She’d seen an arm, a leg, a lock of hair. She hadn’t seen a whole body- she’d taken her father at his word-
Well there’s the problem right there.
The night spread around her in a thick, cloying mass. Rain fell in a brutal rhythm, pouring back out the drain pipes and sewer grates and forming puddles in the muddy gr...
2023-11-29 17:32:23 +0000 UTC View PostFear. Shame. Dread. Guilt. Confusion. They all flowed through Gwen like she’d injected them directly into her forearm, pulsed through her heart into the rest of her body, overwhelming every other feeling and sensation. Fire. Heat. Smoke. Screaming. Chaos.
She’d been led her into a trap, and now she was- now Lacy was-
And yet Gwen was still standing, thinking, breathing. Alive.
The fire wrapped around a wide circumference surrounding she and Lacy, while steam hissed on th...
2023-11-29 17:31:02 +0000 UTC View PostDresden, Michigan- 5 Years Ago
Lacy let the soundwaves wash over her, the long, low strings of the bass, the steady rhythm of the drums, and the high, tight guitar riffs all coming at her at once. She leaned back on her bed, stared up at the ceiling, and parsed through the different components of the song. The lyrics began, harshly screaming about flying whales and environmental degradation. The whole piece hinged around the lyrics, all the other sounds working on some level to back it ...
2023-11-27 17:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostThey walked deep into the woods, their destination within eyeshot: a small clearing around an equally-small pond. There weren’t any trees within a hundred yards on all sides, and the ground was all rock and gravel instead of grass. Muddy puddles accented the ground throughout, remnants of last night’s rainfall and today’s light mist. A dense blanket of Stardust hung over the forest from the previous night- Lacy registered it as a faint, electric buzz at the back of her mind. Now that sh...
2023-11-20 18:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostNorthern Alaska- 20 Years Ago
Snow surged from the sky like blood from a gaping wound, and wind shattered around the castle and the mountains like a maelstrom of broken glass. Castle Albrecht stood between two mountains, and climbed to half their height. Ten stories tall, with four spires arranged around the center in the four cardinal directions. The cylindrical spires reached into the air with their conical tops, adding another dozen feet to the castle’s considerable height. Built f...
2023-11-13 16:30:41 +0000 UTC View PostHer castle traversed the seas, a roaming principality of glaciers carved into buildings and barracks around a central fortress. Her family, black of hair with pointed ears and black sclera and violet irises and empty pupils, lived there with her. They roamed the seas and maintained her empire, killing all those who challenged them. They destroyed the structures of their opponents, killing their cities and hallowed halls and beloved landmarks, executing their leaders before crowds of their fol...
2023-11-10 22:01:08 +0000 UTC View Post10 Years Ago
Isabella stepped out of the library and into the falling snow. The winter air was like raw ocean water, wet and frigid and overwhelming. Light pollution was trapped beneath a thick layer of dark clouds and muddied by snowfall, while wind carried all the sounds and scents through the city in brutal, rapid lashes. The Boston Public library stood in the night, a tall, rectangular building of pure white stone blending into the pitch darkness. The place had closed twenty minutes...
2023-11-09 16:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sea of Glass withstood the weight of Lacy’s wrath as she bounded across it. She attuned to the absence of sound all around her, and it pleased her. She could bring this with her, and shut out all the noise forever. Create a world in which she was not always drowning in the endless abyss of cacophony.
She came to the edge of the dam that held back the sea. The wall of clear, pristine glass that extended upwards and downwards into infinity, wrapping around her universe in its entire...
2023-11-08 18:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post10 years ago
Lacy and her classmates sat in the cramped basement of Saint Cecilia’s Catholic Church, pinned between the white ceiling and the beige-carpeted floor, boxed between walls covered in finger-paintings by younger students. Ten other children sat at the round tables scattered throughout the basement, pooled in groups of twos and threes at their respective seats. Lacy sat at the center table with Danny, her shoulders slack. Her hands were jammed under her rear as she twitched ...
2023-11-07 16:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post"A Remedy for the Aftermath of my Habits"
They sat in the cramped church basement as rain hammered the ground outside. Lacy shared a table with Danny, while Drew, their teacher, stood at a podium beneath a broken clock and a golden crucifix, reading from a well-worn Bible.
“Now class, who can tell me about the Tower of Babel?” Drew said. “Liam. Care to offer your take on this?”
Lacy jerked forward in her seat.
“If you’re trying to run down the clock again, ...
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