The doors of the royal chamber creaked open and out rolled the crown of the king. The bedazzled coronet came…
๐ A Place That Meant Very Little ๐
It was a warm winter here; the green grasses and red cliffs poured across the land to the sun in…
๐ถ๐๐๐ถ The Jack oโLantern Chantey ๐ถ๐๐๐ถ
Night was encroaching. Lulu knew she was getting closer to the cottage as the celebratory singing and harmonizing became louder…
๐ค๐ค The Androidโs Nightmare, and How the Widow Slept ๐ค๐
Artemas awoke in his bed, cold and damp with sweat, the sheets bunched at his feet. Hand to his head,…
The Sunset
I hate the sunset It took my day away โThatโs God.โ Itโs the ugliest moment of these twenty-four hours I…
The Woolly Worm: A Very True and Real Story
โOh, Iโm at home in these woods,โ she sang, twirling through the last leaf greens, the new yellows, the old…
The Final Firs of Christmas
The last Christmas trees in the bin stood gazing around. They were barer by the day, dry as the Gobi,…
The Sorrow of the Christmas Tree
All dressed in her best baubles and bells, the Christmas tree rowed out onto the still, black lake. She dipped…
Bodo Hastens the Work
โHer hair is spindly as threads of dark ocean waves,โ Bodo told the new servant, who grunted, nodded, and dug…
Only Atoms
He felt his eyelids open but there was nothing to see. This was a darkness that transcended darkness. This was…