Tag: short-story

  • Kettle

    Kettle

    Another ordinary morning. My body is still not convinced by the world. Muscles drawn inward as if they will never open, bones that seem to have forgotten how to work, as though they are on strike against the brain. I could pour oil between my joints and it would make sense. My body creaks like…

  • The Dance of Lava and Sea: A Natural Symphony

    The Dance of Lava and Sea: A Natural Symphony

    In the beginning, there was nothing; no time, no place, no moment to remember.Only a trembling earth, the water that wrapped around it, and the orb of fire hidden within.Even though they were buried kilometers deep and seemed separate, their existence was born from the same pulse.One was a fire concealed in the depths, the…

  • Life

    He had done it. He was free. The punishment was over. Infinity and uncertainty no longer bound him.He drew a deep breath and felt the air fill his lungs — a sensation unlike anything he had ever known. The coolness within his chest, the gentle rise and fall of his ribcage, the crisp energy coursing…