Just for a moment…

He was finally able to rest, and that helped him see…how strange all this was.

Somehow the feelings, urges, of being a man had never overtaken him. He had thought himself above such things, with a rational scientific mind…but no longer.

He felt a harsh, hot, longing within him. The power of these feelings shocked him.

He knew it was his proximity to…her. Fascinating.

Perhaps it...

I hadn’t seen the moon since the day we came upon the creatures living on it.

They had already terrorized our ancestors and us for that matter. But we had found a way to save ourselves.

But this is what the invaders could never understand. They couldn’t comprehend why we wanted so badly to live. Why we wanted to be awake.

They treasured the silence. We were like nails on a chalkboard to them.

So t...

“Before Icarus flew too close to the sun, he had fun test flying his wings,” the reporter said, as the camera widened to reveal me, floating above the city, wings twitching with excitement.

“And now the city’s very own angel will demonstrate her new safety net for our fair city! Welcome to Tenshi Rising!”

I flapped my large wings and raised them and began to spin. My wings raised and the feathers ...

The sun is at it’s brightest

In the summer solstice

Setting in the West

The sunsets are boldest

The sun dies

In the depth of Winter

We hope and cry

For its happy return

And in the dark

In the cold winter air

It is but a weak spark

“Do you think the sun gets lonely up there?”...

As she pushes her veil back she peers down the aisle to see him. It is indeed he, the man she awaited so long.

Fire in his hair and a smile on his face as he proudly beckons her to join him at the altar.

She returns his smile and loving gaze as she approaches.

The two of them secreted off so many times in the past after they figured out they were betrothed. He was so kind, treating her like a rea...

I was like Bluebeard’s wife, only without the murder.

I had discovered what my husband was, the secret he’d kept from me. As a woman of faith, I should recoil in disgust.

Or make a move to destroy him with my sacred powers.

But this was HIM. He who had wiped away my tears, sat up with me on sleepless nights.

He’d let me read to him and make the cutest screwed up faces when it was too complicated...

I lay, broken and defeated on the side of the highway.

The car slowly burned not too far away.

And my mother, bless her, would not give up. As I watched, immobilized, she crawled slowly, painfully towards me.

She was saying something, but it wasn’t a language I recognized.

Whatever she said, it was her last words, and I watched helplessly as the light faded from her eyes…and burned into mine.

Su...

I opened my eyes to find him gazing at me. Those eyes that had been fixed on me for a long time, now had me at his mercy.

He knew everything about me, save one important thing…

He did not know what I am. What power sleeps within me. But I knew what he was. And I knew his weakness. His weakness…was me.

As my elongated nail traced my face, leaving blood in its wake, he gripped me, as expected.

“How...

I knew it was him once again. I had thought i had left him behind. He had sworn to never love another. I had not made such a vow and had kissed many men since him; but still the vibration of my lips was a betrayal.

I had thought him dead and gone, or hermitized on that mountain. The mountain filled with flight and puffy clouds perfect for sitting and watching the sunrise.

He had vowed to love me a...

The priestess froze as the tree whispered once more, “Save me.”

Her hand carresses the trunk. “The gods have imprisoned you here, I must not defy them.”

The branches shuddered as an anguished voice repiled. “Twas not a divine punishment, I was imprisoned by the last priestess to commune with nature as you do, doomed to wait fifty years for her successor, as she herself died at the scene, hoping th...