Hazy morning smog fills the lungs of two sacks of entwined flesh; the mental unsteadiness from a night barely remembered outside of sensations of a vague variety best not spoken about in polite company. As eyes slowly process the cheap hotel walls, of the petals of faded roses, and bodies revolt at the sheets with…

Content Warning: Sensitive Topics Nathaniel is lying down in his bathtub. His face is the only thing the water isn’t covering, like an island surrounded by a dirty sea. Nathaniel hears the muffled down fan in his bathroom. The water slowly clogging his ears decides what he hears. I thought I did everything right, Nathaniel…

Two men stood atop the serene mountain, both unmoving in a white field of flowers. One was covered in a cloak that seemed to pull in the heat from the world around it as it billowed gently in the wind; the only identifying mark was a small crest on the left side of the figure’s…

A stryzga is a mythological creature from slavic folklore, a female demon or vampire-like figure, feared to pray travelers in the night. According to myth, people with odd peculiarities such as people born with two sets of teeth, those who did not grow hair in their armpits, or those with a unibrow or some kind…

The bathroom is nice at least. That’s sort of Finn’s one saving grace in this moment, sitting on the lid of a toilet in an apartment they’d never been to in a part of town they specifically avoided so that they might have never had to live through this exact encounter. Their eyes skirt over…

The day before harvest everyone was excited to finally become a part of a nice home-cooked meal. The corn was ready to be buttered, the wheat was excited to be a warm loaf of bread, and my family was excited to bathe in a nice, warm pot of stew. Everyone had come to terms with…

Drip. Drip. Drip. The sound echoed incessantly across the quartz and iron walls that formed the underground prison. Drip. Drip. Drip. The acid drops fell one after another into the rusted bowl suspended by trembling hands just above his head. Drip. Drip. Drip. There were but two other noises that dared pierce the silence of…

A kingdom fell under a drought which caused a deep famine. The king and queen did everything they could to heal the land and take care of their people. They even told their children that if either of them found a way to heal the land, that child would get the throne. They had two…