Every night, I close my eyes to pay my soulmate a visit in his otherworldly garden. Some nights, I find him pensive and perched on a stone bench near the center fountain. On other nights, he’s trimming and clipping bushes along the great stone walls at the garden’s perimeter. Once, I found him sweetly sleeping under the strong thick elm tree branches wrapped in a wool blanket. We speak to each oth...

Perhaps if they had mentioned the fangs, the others would have become nothing more than Halloween costume fodder. Like space Dracula or shimmery brooding teen antiheroes struggling with a sort of sobriety and looking for humanity in high school chem labs. Instead, the elders hid this one significant detail away, and in doing so, the others from beyond retained just enough humanity that their stori...

Smoke clears in the distance, and at long last, I see the skeletal remains of a small city. Tears flood my eyes and I tell my horse we are going to make it after all.

I spoke too soon.

With near biblical precision, an arrow pierces me right in the heart and the taste of my own blood and the sight of my panicked horse become my very last moments in this worldly dimension.

Everything fades to b...

Memory breathes

But only when it holds you.

Sleepless nights filled with your scent,

perfumed by the love wrought,

These memories could rise up and walk among the living.

She takes me to my knees in the kitchen.

Watch as she goes,

Stretching like a cat with claws barred,

She pads stealthily into the mundane moments of my mind.

She scorches my skin in the shower.

The squish of her hai...

I settled myself into a deep meditation and let’s the tendril free. It rushed to her with such tenacity that it sent a shutter down my spine. She was waiting in the dreamscape meadow. Just where I left her. Good girl.

When she spotted me in the distance, she jumped up and took off at a sprint. Even here, her breasts bounced and her hair swirled in the coastal air. The combination threatened to b...

How could I have been so blind? He had been trying to tell me all along.

Hearing the others snickering around her she could feel a blush overtake her cheeks. Everything. He had heard her every private thought from the moment he laid eyes on her. Not just mundane things, but fiercely private things. And horrible things. She wasn’t sure which feel was pulling her under into a sea of panic. Pain? Em...

She took one step out over the ashen plains before her and he dove to offer her cover.

“Take this, and whatever you do, don’t reach out for the purple mist,” he said, a deathly serious look took his face.

With a firm grip on the umbrella, she continued to navigate the rough terrain beneath her feet. She couldn’t

Seem to hide the wonder in her eyes.

“This is the most beautiful place I have ev...

The snow and sleet pelted the window softly as the storm continued strong as ever. Ori’s slender fingers gently explored the tree ornaments, and he seemed unaware of his soft glow. His opalescent skin reflected the twinkle lights and he began to camouflage right in.

The house was silent now, and she was grateful her family was in bed at last. She walked to the other room and the soft sweet sound...

She walked away from the sitting area and pulled out her yellow hard case. They each received one for some limited quantity of personal effects beyond the essentials like grooming products and clothes. Not much but it was cherished by almost all the station inhabitants. She popped the lid and revealed some art supplies, not surprising, but she shoved them all aside and reached to the bottom. Her f...

Morning was breaking and sun poured into the window of her childhood bedroom. Across the thread bare quilt at their feet, she traced the brightest ray with her foot. It led a blazing path right to the muscular arms of an alien jutting out from the soft sheets. The light continued on across his face, to his head, across the pillow. It glimmered off his exposed opalescent skin in a way that she was ...