Alice stared, her jaw gravitating towards the marble floor. Before her eyes was the handmaid. Alongside the handmaid stood a bucket of brown muck surrounded by a pool of dirty water. A wrangled mop lay cast aside. In the pool was a whole raw chicken drenched in the swampy fluid. Lady Hazel was stationed before … Read more
It was the peak of a great war, the first, really, of the century. Tears lingered on the streets of the busy city like rain. Hospitals were drowning with the fallen men and women, citizens riddled with the wave of panic and hysteria. Lady Hazel watched from her high bedroom tower. She was safe there; … Read more
I fell in love with the house in the sky the way nothing really fits, and everything somehow goes. The isolation of being nestled in the clouds but still with a view of below huge glass windows that trap too much sunlight in the summer and not enough heat in the winter. how the corners … Read more
The Painter walked through his gallery; it was found above his bedroom of the cottage, where a wooden staircase led to the attic. He had many cottages, each for a different purpose. This cottage was hidden deep within the forest, and was especially for his paintings and his time away to create. The air smelled … Read more
There was a stillness in the air despite the buzz of the city people. The river created a chill that floated throughout the town and brushed the cheeks of anxious tourists. I was one of them. A speck in an ocean of untold stories and lived lives. Out of place, yet somehow blending into the … Read more