“It’s simple really,” I muse to the man splayed at my feet, his glazed gaze aimed toward the star speckled sky in a woeful search for where he went wrong.

I’d admire my handiwork if that expression weren’t mostly a result of his collapse.

I shiver a bit at the haunting memory of the icky echoing smack sound his head made against the cobblestone paved alleyway.

Probably one of the top five wo...

Archer’s eye narrows, releases the arrow,

chest pricks with pain of finality.

Fletching dances from trembling chest,

proof nightmare has become reality.

Vision goes red, I’m already dead,

he ensured it as those words flew free.

If he’s so set on sending me to my end,

then I’m taking him down with me.

It’s all my ember of outrage needs,

encouraged into a consuming blaze.

How else will he reap ...

My laugh startles me out of the story I was reading and my frown deepens as reality materializes before me.

It’s like I’d actually traveled to the fae realm I’d been reading of: colors here just seem duller, the life I’m dissociating from is exceedingly anticlimactic in comparison, and certainly no one here has wings.

That I know of, anyway.

I try to immerse myself in back in the story, but un...

Leah was birthed above the earth

with only half her heart.

An instant victim of gravity,

cohabitating with her counterpart.

Upon her descent, she observed

what it meant, to fall in love.

Eyes furtively cast to the sky

much preferring her view from above.

The tether pulling them together

grew taut as she fought her fate.

Decidedly complete as she was, she

resisted the summons of her soulmate.

A...

There’s a weird tension in the castle today. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say I was being kept away from the library by Beast’s meticulously curated, robotically animated furniture.

That was a culture shock I had to get past quickly.

It was almost more startling than stumbling into this desolate, forbidden land and trading places with my bumbling father in the dungeon.

I don’t blame Be...

Born under a microscope,

grew into the glass.

Unblinking eye, magnified,

observing my every task.

Theatrically enacting expected perfection,

warily navigating the preconceived path.

Refrain from obtaining adventurous ideas,

lest you face the watcher’s wrath.

But increasingly heated needling

evaporates the creative mind.

Shriveling under scrutiny, I perished,

but sadly, failed to die.

The husk ...

Do you ever feel like you’re being watched?

I do. All the time.

That sensation only abates in my home, but only slightly.

I had to rid of the paintings with faces in the palatial place just to find some peace.

It’s not that I assumed this pub, in the village below my home, would bring me that same peace, but choosing a shadowy corner to sit to avoid attracting attention seems to have done the o...

A million possibilities

as far as the eye can see

but there’s no trail like the one

I’d blazed on my own feet.

With every beat of my wings

I try to leave my doubts behind,

but as much as I’ve changed,

I still contain my unsatisfied mind.

It had always been a dream of mine,

to gain the ability to fly,

but these hollow bones

only emphasize, how I feel inside.

I’d once seen a man die and

was ...

I’d been warned before,

but never expected the pain.

Just knew love was fun,

but never played the game.

The rules were manipulated,

obfuscated by their upper hand.

I’d known falling was involved,

but hadn’t prepared to land.

Gracelessly braced in disgrace,

slick chessboard meets my feet.

I’d thought we were a match,

not one where we compete.

Their retreat was seen as victory,

which almost made...

The simmering rays of the sun’s unforgiving morning light beats down through the dome over our city as if our method for protection only maginifies its ire.

Growing up, I’d thought that was why the sky crackled – it was baking under the heat just like we were.

It wasn’t until I came into my powers, while ironically running from physical education class, that I’d learned the truth.

No one was a...