To Hug A Cloud As a child I spent hours reaching, trying to touch the fluffy, frolicking clouds. Then I learned that living clouds nested in the mountains...
Forever Loved At first you thought I was delusion. Your grief playing tricks on you. I didnât know enough to tell you otherwise; I was barely five months old when I died.
Check The Basement I was woken by a tapping sound. For a moment I thought it was the oak tree outside my window. Then I remembered this new house doesn't have trees near it...
Harbingers Of Life And Friendship âNever look a crow in the eyesâ, I was told as a child. âThey steal away souls. Theyâll lay death upon you, then eat your ghost before it reaches the After.â
An Itinerant Mouse On days like these, when the wind whistling past is wet and cold and the air inside the van stinks of petrol and coffee, I wonder if my mother was right. Perhaps I truly am a house mouse at heart.
Hatch Or Suffocate The air is growing stale and close. I press my hands against the cool, smooth, gently curving surface surrounding me. Searching.
The Heartbeat Of The Club I stomp until the memories of this hard week beg for mercy beneath my feet. I sway until the clinging sadness gives up and falls away. I punch the air until my frustration is splattered across the ceiling like invisible neon paint.
A Perfectly Normal Approach Itâs nothing. I mean, itâs perfectly normal to mess around and experiment with your avatars, right? Especially when you always end up having a dozen characters in each game you play. Thatâs just⌠everyone does that. Itâs NORMAL.
The "Free Hugs" Pipe The sign was dingy. Scribbled on cardboard, jammed onto some long-abandoned nail, reading âFREE HUGS!â with an arrow pointing to the big drainage pipe.
The Witch Phoenix The tang of ash and regret chokes the air. I angle my wings and soar down, down⌠not towards the charred skeleton of a hut or the corpses within, but to the other end of the pitiful trail; the cowering figure huddled deep in the woods.