Fantasy
When the Day Met the Night
In the beginning, before Earth’s creatures invaded space, there were only the celestial bodies, orbiting around each other. The moons lovingly orbited their planets, the planets orbited the sun, and the sun orbited nothing because the sun was the ruler of the Milky Way. The Earth’s young moon caught glimpses of the sun as she endlessly circled her planet. She smiled at the sun, and they always smiled back. As the months wore on, they grew closer and closer, until one day, the moon stood directly in front of the sun. They were breathtaking up close. Their golden hair flowed freely down to their waist. Sunspots dotted their sharp, angular face and they radiated a heat strong enough to scorch the Earth, but gentle enough to warm a weary traveler. And the moon felt drab and inadequate in their presence.
By Morey Guntz29 days ago in Fiction
The Cinder’s Weight
The hearth has stopped its singing.white-ribbed and glowing with a soft, pulsing ache. I am watching the last flame— a tiny, blue-tongued ghost licking the underside of a charred knot. It is fragile, a translucent ribbon fraying against the weight of the coming dark. There is a specific silence that lives here For hours, it was a roar of gold and defiance, consuming the dry cedar of our history, the splinters of every word we ever threw into the heat to keep the room alive. But the wood is spent now. The logs have collapsed into a skeletal geography,
By Awa Nyassi29 days ago in Fiction
Update: The Concession Stand Calls
UPDATE: The phone rang today… but this time, it wasn’t just the boy on the line. So, I wasn’t planning on updating because, honestly, I thought people would call BS, but a bunch of you asked for more details. And then something happened today that I can’t keep to myself.
By V-Ink Stories30 days ago in Fiction
The Maiden & The Selkie King
The waves crashed lazily against the shoreline as Bridgett stared into the diamond water. Her bright hair whipped around like a blazing fire in the wind. The allure of the water and the impatience for her father’s return kept her sitting on the water’s edge for hours at a time. She counted the bobbing heads of dolphins and seals, noting the differences in their color and shapes. She thought about the stories her father told her about mermaids and sea monsters. Such grand adventures he had! She wanted to be a part of them and share in the adventures of such creatures. She’d often let her mind wander far off into the sea, where creatures would bring her in on dangerous adventures, or she would find her one true love. In her mind, she willed these stories to be true. She dreamed desperately of a time when she could join her father on sea voyages.
By Leah Suzanne Deweyabout a month ago in Fiction
