Sitting on the shore in the dark stillness of night,

The waves roll in and out in their rhythmic,

Hypnotic dance,

Swelling, rising high up towards the moon,

Then falling and rushing back home to shore,

Over and over as if endlessly trying to reach heaven,

Then mourning their every failure.

I feel most alive under the light of the moon,

And full blanket of stars,

Tiny dots of magic piercing throug...

Abigail pushed a heavy, beige framed bed down the hall of the North wing, griping tight against its wide set plastic arms. The power had been flickering all night and finally petered out sometime before sun up. She wheeled Sasha’s bed down the dark hall, wheels groaning under the weight. She’d been put in a huge bariatric bed, Abigail doesn’t remember why. Sasha’s tiny, ninety pound body dwarfed b...

At some point I gave up

Trying to be enough

And was content to simply

Make myself small enough

As to not be noticed at all.

And I gave up on the idea

Of actual love,

That old, worn out fairytale.

All of those sweet words whispered,

Like a cyanide-laced love letter

Addressed to someone you never

Truly cared for,

Someone I was supposed to become.

I had grown tired

Of wishing on all the stars in t...

October twenty third, the year of our sky Gods, 3526,

Somewhere in the Third Kingdom of the Seventh Dominion (Alpha Centauri).

My name is Annalise. And this is my last will and testament. I have no possessions to give and no one left to inherent them. I only have my story. I have been exiled to this desolate planet by the Bureau of Deferential Virtue. A case was made against my honor and decency ...