Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales

Joined May 2022

318 stories

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I love to write. I have a deep love for words and language; a budding philologist (a late bloomer according to my father). I have been fascinated with the construction of sentences and how meaning is derived from the order of words.

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The Light That Learned to Walk
They say the first light of morning is older than the sun — that it’s the echo of something that never stopped moving. For years, I thought I understood that kind of immortality. The still kind. The kind that doesn’t breathe, only waits. I thought endurance meant survival. I was wrong.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Fiction
The House That Keeps the Light
Some houses remember more than they should. Mine hums with old stories, carries warmth like a heartbeat, and keeps the light for those who once kept me.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Fiction
When the Light Comes Looking
Each winter, I light a single candle and listen to the dark breathe. Some rituals begin as habits; others remember us long after we forget why we began them.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Humans
Under the Skin, There Are Roads
They say we leave our trails in ourselves, not in the world. Every grief, every year we pretended not to notice, every small vow broken softly—none of it vanishes. It hides in the body and waits. Bones remember angles even after posture changes. Scars memorize what language forgets. Blood, it turns out, is an archivist with a key to every locked room.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Humans
The Room That Waited
Lucian wakes to a door that was never there. Some rooms are built by memory, others by regret. But this one — this one remembers him first.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Fiction
Where the Glass Begins
They say reflections are harmless, that glass only borrows light. But every mirror keeps a record: every photograph, a promise. The more you look, the more it learns the shape of you.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Fiction
The Light That Looked Back
One harmless selfie. One flash too bright. In a quiet clinic lobby, a reflection forgets who it belongs to—and the world shifts by half a heartbeat.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Fiction
The Last Lantern
When all the stars forget to burn, and night forgets her borrowed name, the last lantern will still return— its glow the heart of every flame.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Poets
The Lantern in the Orchard
At dusk, I walk the orchard rows— the air still sweet with apple rain. The trees breathe stories no one knows, their roots remembering his name.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Poets
The Lantern in the River
I set a lantern on the stream, its flame a single, trembling word. The river answered like a dream— a hymn too soft to be unheard.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Poets
Lantern of the Veil
I carried fire beneath my skin, a secret sun the world can’t see. Its shimmer sought to rise within— but silence pressed its will on me.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Poets
The Lantern Keeper
Before the breath, before the sea, before the roots of dawn were sown, a single spark was given me— a borrowed blaze, not mine alone.
By Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales3 months ago in Poets

Rebecca A Hyde Gonzales

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The Light That Learned to Walk

The House That Keeps the Light

When the Light Comes Looking

Under the Skin, There Are Roads

The Room That Waited

Where the Glass Begins

The Light That Looked Back

The Last Lantern

The Lantern in the Orchard

The Lantern in the River

Lantern of the Veil

The Lantern Keeper

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