She had walked through this cemetary a hundred times before, but it had never before looked like this.

Always eager to prove her bravery, a school yard dare soon became a regular short-cut, and later, edgy hangout spot.

It had never scared her, and it soon become second nature, as familiar to her as the hidden corners of her yard or bedroom

So how had she never seen it like this before.

A glow ...

The din from outside was growing in volume. The noise was corse and base and troubling to Queen Christina. At only 11am surely it was too early for the rabble to be congregating.

Still they must have their trivial tasks to do as she had her weighty and onerous obligations to perform.

Sitting down to a light breakfast of brioche and chocolate, she mulled over the tasks of the day.

A meeting with...

It was the night before of the great exhibition of ideas. People from all over France, from all over Europe would be congregating here to discuss the future of the human race. Existentalism and humanity’s great tragedy- free will

Despite what people would often say, Sartre hated speaking to crowds. His place was beside his Simone debating ideas with his friends, his equals.

Still the importance o...

When I look in the mirror, what is it I see?

Is that me, staring back with hard careless eyes?

Is this who I have become?

Cold as glass. Broken shards of a human being.

How did I let this happen?

Am i still there, buried deep beneath the scar tissue, peering out, afraid to emerge, but still, resolutely, impossibly me

No

Not any longer, the girl I once was is lost forever. I am as cold, as brittle...

“You see Geoff. This, this is what happens when you don’t get a full inspection before you buy”

Geoff nods....

In the early morning light the lake seemed entirely harmless, tranquil, almost enticing.

Sally sat down at thr edge of the pier resisting the urge to drop her feet into the cool still water.

Everyone she loved was gone, consumed by the lake. Already the memories seemed impossible to her

She allowed the large hot tears well up and fall silently down her cheeks.

A breeze skirted the surface of th...

Our world became more maliable, less concrete, less sturdy, around the same time that pilot disappeared. She had been testing some fancy new jet, something rumored to reach somewhere close to the speed of light. It all sounded like fancy science mumbo-jumbo but there is no getting away from the simple fact that one day the jet and the pilot were safely on the ground. The next day she flew off and ...

The air was crisp and clean. A breeze played over her face. She sighed, content

If anyone were to tell her this place was all artifice, a manufactured facsimile of a world now lost, she wouldn’t believe them.

Tell me how this sky, these trees, this landscape is not real. It was the only reality she had ever known

Earth, the old earth, long since stripped bare and destroyed. Ancient history, no lo...

Goldie had one best friend in the whole world. Goldie was Jennys pet goldfish and would always listen when Jenny was telling her all about her day, always swimming right up to the glass of her fish bowl whenever Jenny came into the room, her little golden fins splashing excitedly in the water.

Goldie was Jennys best friend by far, and Jenny was Goldies best friend too

But sometimes, when Goldie h...

Staring out on the misty morning, Jessica came over all Wuthering Heights.

“No”, she thought, involuntarily shaking her head to dislodge the very notion

“Catherine was such a cow, I’m much more the Jane Eyre type”

She nodded to herself in approval.

Stepping further out into the bleak landscape, the chill air penetrating her clothes and sending a shiver down her spine. She waited for the wind to p...