War Gods need offerings
Trigger Warning: mentions of war and gore Hatred does not cease by hatred. But only by love; this is the eternal rule. Buddha In this greed For power, for money … Continue Reading War Gods need offerings
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Trigger Warning: mentions of war and gore Hatred does not cease by hatred. But only by love; this is the eternal rule. Buddha In this greed For power, for money … Continue Reading War Gods need offerings
Trigger Warning: mentions of death, violence, murder, sexual assault, gaslighting, and necrophilia The morning sun blazed on the white marble and yellow limestone of Herod’s Temple, and when its rays … Continue Reading Herod’s Curse
He’s in the yard wearing shorts and a winter hat head tilted back watching the lightning, expressionlessly He’s taken out a laundry basket and an ancient tennis racket with a … Continue Reading Grave Goods for Luna
She yawns into twilight, waking to work, looking for car keys, coffee. A few strands of networking ping her towards the drudgery of survival. Her tasks keep spinning round and … Continue Reading Night Shift Sympathy: the spotted orb weaver
More than a long walk, Motions of grace abound For Bigfoot, a labyrinth-like shapeshifter No one can expose beyond The ongoing spiraling myth. In a video-clip of lies, in myriad … Continue Reading Aliens in the Backyard
I want to offer you this pebble of wisdom that at first will rub between your big & second toe and chafe more than comfort but do it anyway, get … Continue Reading When All Else Fails
Trigger Warning: burns, death Crooked archways hang above the shattered glass pieces of the mirror on the floor, intricate runes lining the dark hallway and illuminating it with their glow … Continue Reading The Box
Prompt: What do you want to say to someone that you have not said, and what keeps you from saying it? Lux’s age: 23 CW: Polyamorous feelings, insecurity, anxiety — … Continue Reading I’ve Never Told Anyone… – Blog Post #10
Dance. Dance exquisitely, perfectly, like you were made to do this because you were. Dance. Rise on your toes for the pirouette. Perfect. It has to be perfect. Dance. Become … Continue Reading The Endless
TW: PTSD/CPTSD, mentions of panic attacks, pedophilia, sexual harassment/assault, attempted rape — I have this recurring dream that scares me awake in the middle of the night. This dream usually only happens when I am really stressed or depressed, though there are some exceptions. When they happen, I am always unable to fall back asleep, fear, panic attacks, and tears keep me awake, and am then usually haunted by it for the next day or so. I hate thinking about this dream, it is full of distorted traumatic memories that bring back the actual things, causing me to relive those experiences.
Through the windshield Vigilant I search for My peculiar obsession (A childhood compulsion Shaped from the backseat Of our Thunderbird Endless dull stretches Of blurred landscape) An inconsequential Lonely copse … Continue Reading Oasis
Trigger warning: mentions of death Weird-D stepped into the light of a CN locomotive, eviscerated like a kicked bag of rubber bands unspooled garden hose, they closed the trainline all … Continue Reading Death On The Tracks
Between enclosed spaces Her presence is what Makes our building a home Held my body for nine months Held my soul for a lifetime Through this journey called life Her … Continue Reading My mother my sunshine
Trigger Warning: mentions of death It’s not when my father in-law is run over crossing a street in the Sunshine State that I feel it not at his funeral, sitting … Continue Reading One Step Nearer
Once vital horsemen galloping toward whatever edge of creation presented maximal challenged cannonball days turned to harvest feasts, accompany damsels to all-night drunk dance parties now nonagenarians who don’t know … Continue Reading Legend’s Gothic Rot
After my Sunday trek To the woods where I sat so silently An unsuspecting fox With a chipmunk Clasped in her teeth Loped near taking No notice of me I … Continue Reading Equally Precarious