Everyone has their fucked up days...
Everything was planned I guess. I never saw how they connected. That one morning, that one comment, that one being... it almost ended my life. It was about 5 in the morning. I was deep into sleep, but the people living here weren't. He was getting up...
Fading
You scrabble for your phone with your opposite hand; your usual hand is doing something unusual and is not available. Of course, it would be helpful if your hand wasn't wet and you could actually hold on to something. Finally, digging nails into the...
Recovery time
Everthing hurts right now. But the wall is gone. I'm free again. Time to find out what has been kept from me. Please don't be worried about me im OK. Just need more time to heal and adjust to the freedom. Where there once was despaire there is...
With Broken Hearts
With broken hearts we hold the line With broken hearts we tremble With broken hearts and broken minds we shall forev'r assemble. That hateful deed, the blood thus spilled, in name of rage and hate, it shall not be forgotten and time will make...
Damp Face
**Damp Face** _By Asher Wolfstein_ In night sweats I still lay, Shades of cold, so far away Anger on repeat, point complete, Ditches titanic, tears chthonic Foundations melancholic, Morality mnemonic, words tectonic Father alcoholic Love...
I Will Show You Pain
Pain and darkness. Those were the only things I felt, then fear, I was scared beyond what words could describe. I felt a heavy pressure on me, but I couldn't really feel my body. Then suddenly I heard noises around me, I could not understand what they...
Great Cause, Greater Pain
(4:00 EST) The stream begins. Harry the Hawk, Supermascot Rocky the Mountain Lion and Clutch the Bear stand in the middle of a rec center. The 3 of them are smiling, if a bit nervous about how the stream may go, but happy and full of enthusiasm. ...
Growing Pains, Part 1
**Author note: This is the first installation of a multi-part series by commission! The characters, story and setting are written under guidance from the client (I absolutely adore Zoe. Seriously. She is too cute.) and so additional installments will...
Growing Pains, Part 3
By the time Mikhail left his room, his new housemate had already unpacked dinner, had taken her plastic tub of food and was sitting on the couch. A "Lets's play" review video of a rogue-like game was flashing across a TV that had been...
Growing Pains, Part 2
That evening, there was a distinct awkwardness in the air. After his parents had left, Zoe helped her new flatmate collect his belongings from where they lay scattered across the floor. Far from the collection of sports memorabilia and...
Painful Plundering, Part Two
The rocking waves of the open ocean were not a kind thing to a feline. Though she was able to curtail her seasickness, Millie still didn't enjoy the feeling of the ship rocking from side to side around her as she leaned against the wall of her small,...
Pain - Fable Pt. 0
Every night she had the same dream. Or, at least the part she could remember. It always seemed to end with her laying down, facing the sky, soaked in the amber light of evening. She could her life force draining away, and the icy chill of death she...