The Lady King

Joined February 2021

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|| Spunky Aussie indie author - watch this space! I'll be a household name someday! ||

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The Lady King
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. Once, they’d been in the skies, if you believed that sort of thing. How that could have been Rilke had never been sure; ‘dragon’ had an altogether different definition at the time.
By The Lady King4 years ago in Fiction
Homebuilding
We wave off the guests at the door, company goes home, and the lock is set in place, and you are screaming in my face. Because now they're gone you get to unleash everything you sat on, everything somehow you were too polite to say.
By The Lady King4 years ago in Poets
dendroclimatology
am i meant to forgive the axe for not meaning to hit the knot at my centre when it came down on me? for breaking me into uneven, asymmetrical kindling instead of splitting me cleanly? for hurting me less efficiently?
By The Lady King4 years ago in Poets
the words for jealousy and regret are the same in my mind
i feel jealous of january, but not a recent one; i feel jealous of january 2018 before everything went wrong, before i made my stupidest and most costly mistake, before i could prepare to make more like it for years to come,
By The Lady King4 years ago in Poets
The Last Barista In The World
It’s dark just after dawn; the sky bleeds rusty shadows over what remains of her hometown, drawing ghostly reliefs of buildings, streets, figures. They move toward her, to the light, out of the surrounding gloom; hands out, eyes hungry. It never ends.
By The Lady King5 years ago in Futurism