Raistlin Allen
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Winterborn(e). Runner-Up in The Ritual of Winter Challenge.
Every winter there's one tradition I can't shake: I turn another year older, complete one more rotation around the sun. February is not a kind month- the kindest thing about it is probably just that it's shorter than the others. I was born on the 9th, a day when a snowstorm always seems to be around the corner. This happenstance has always seemed a cruel irony to me: I hate winter- to be born in the dead middle of it is like a bad joke (and I'm not laughing). Over time, though, I've come to see it at least as a kind of marker- I've made it halfway across the dismal stretch of cold after the holidays’ end.
By Raistlin Allen29 days ago in Humans
Tallahassee Eulogy
For having the only house on the street that boasted a banana tree, a gazebo, and a second floor. . For the great oaks draped in Spanish moss like the beards of an extinct dwarven species, its rough feel that made me shudder with a kind of fascinated dread.
By Raistlin Allenabout a month ago in Poets
Haunt. Honorable Mention in The Forgotten Room Challenge.
Morning. You come awake to dust motes dancing in spots of sun. Your bedroom is exactly as it was the day before- and the day before that, and before that. Your record player by the vanity where you do your makeup, sitting gathering dust, your flower pressings pinned to the wall above the neatly made bed you no longer sleep in. This room is hidden now, walled off, a mystery to the rest of the house, a time capsule in which your life is preserved just as you left it.
By Raistlin Allenabout a month ago in Fiction
