Cassandra Staple
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Chocolate Ash
She had been waiting all day for this. Layers of thick, gooey chocolate separated by buttercream and covered with almond icing. Rich and delicious, this cake – garnished with chocolate shavings – was a work of art. Beautiful and tasty. Delighted, she eagerly dove in.
By Cassandra Staple5 years ago in Fiction
Finding Paradise
It began with a drop. A single drop, innocuous in appearance, its shimmery golden color barely hinting at the terrible power within. That one beautiful drop of toxic waste falling into the vast oceans should not have had such a profound effect. The clear aquamarine waters of the Bahama Islands should not have roiled into a sickly green; bubbling and boiling not unlike a witch’s cauldron in a children’s story. The dark, icy waters of the arctic should not have turned black, lava hot and thick as tar. Within days no ocean was left unscathed. Aquatic wildlife died off in droves. Soon, only the hardiest of creatures survived. The ones that lived far beneath the reach of humans. These twisted nightmares were unfit for human consumption, and so no human dared to try to pull them from the toxic depths.
By Cassandra Staple5 years ago in Fiction
