Aylin Beckett

I’m new to writing. I’m excited to learn, grow, and create. I would love all the feedback you can give. 💛💛

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Aylin Beckett

I’m new to writing. I’m excited to learn, grow, and create. I would love all the feedback you can give. 💛💛

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Apathy Dressed In Gray

Aylin Beckett

1 min read

Some say the darkest sin is loud — harmful, uncontrollable.

But apathy is quiet. It has clean hands.

It doesn’t scream; it sighs and turns away.

It doesn’t lash out like wrath or consume like greed — it watches, still and silent, as others suffer. It’s hearing a cruel joke in a meeting and laughing because silence is easier.

Apathy starts as protection — a breath, a boundary — but left unc...

Drama

Anatomy Of A Snack Attack

Aylin Beckett

1 min read

“This is an emergency, everyone! This is not a drill. I repeat: this is not a drill. We are starving!” Stomach yelled, voice echoing like a foghorn across the body.

“What did you think was going to happen? She opened the fridge and didn’t touch anything,” Eyes snapped, unimpressed.

“There were leftovers! She opened the drawer full of cheese!” Stomach whined. “I think she’s punishing us. Maybe sh...

Humour

Halo And Hollow

Aylin Beckett

1 min read

Be quick. Be careful.

Follow the lit path.

It promises safety

but it’s too quiet, too bright.

There’s comfort in the glow,

a warmth that hums like a lullaby,

but only stretches so far.

At the edges, the dark waits

Patient, watching.

Because night is dangerous.

And now, you're safe.

But even comfort

can make you careless.

Something creeps

just beyond the reach of light

waiting

for you to step...

Poetry

Drama

The Finch And The Fox

Aylin Beckett

5 min read

The private art gallery is cold, dark, and waiting. I’ve always felt that my marks call to me—like I’m rescuing them. In a way, I am.

Some pieces were stolen long before I ever touched them, passed through greedy hands like dirty money. I simply... correct the mistake. Put them where they belong. Other times, certain people own the art but don’t deserve it. I sell it through a middleman. They mak...

Crime

Romance

To Good Health

Aylin Beckett

4 min read

Irene arranged the sugar cubes with trembling precision, twelve in all, each nudged into place like bone-white dominoes. Outside, the wind stirred the hydrangeas, but inside her home, everything was perfectly still. The air smelled of lemon polish and something metallic, faint but lingering — like rusted pennies left in the sun.

She moved carefully, folding linen napkins over bone china teacups,...

Horror

Drama

Where The Shadows Wait

Aylin Beckett

5 min read

It loved her in silence. Every night, as the world dimmed and she climbed into bed, it waited — flattened beneath the mattress, bones folded like prayers. It knew the sound of her laughter through the floorboards, the sleepy weight of her sighs, the delicate drag of her feet as she walked barefoot across the room.

Lilly never saw it, never even knew it was there. But when the wind howled, it cur...

Romance

Horror

The Burden Of Memory

Aylin Beckett

1 min read

It is in the quiet

Where my mind wanders

And yes it finds the good

But often discovers the regrets

Haunt me by using

My actions against me

Did I really do that?

I was that stranger

My soul has never been clean

No matter how hard

I tried to scrub the sin

That waits in the past

Because regrets find solace

In the mistakes we make

And some lessons are never learned

Until the shame shakes ou...

Poetry

Drama

The Fairy And The Felon

Aylin Beckett

4 min read

Bullets wiz by my ear as I duck for cover behind a wooden pallet. We should have waited for more back up. There are far more gunmen than police at this point. But my partner, Keith, has something to prove apparently. He went in, and the rest of us had to follow.

The abandoned factory is hot with stale air, reeks of gasoline and piss, and buzzes with adrenaline. My pallet doesn’t feel secure so I ...

Action

Romance

Happy Birthday

Aylin Beckett

6 min read

The dining hall screams extravagance. Harmony, my boss, is having her thirtieth birthday party. Her family owns the company I work for.

Today is also my birthday, but no one here will know that. I just need to stay till Harmony sees me, then I can go home and eat ice cream with my roommate, Rose. Twenty minutes tops.

My hair is a wet, and now frizzy, mess since I couldn’t find my umbrella. It ...

Horror

The Last Sale Of The Day

Aylin Beckett

2 min read

Twenty more minutes and then I can finally close the store. I’ve been looking forward to going home and working on my painting. That and relax. It’s been a long day.

It’s the first busy day after a slow summer. We sell clothes, cute nicknacks, kitchen items, and more. It’s not a crazy large space, but it’s got room to move around.

Dolly Parton fills the speakers as I start to blow out some can...

Romance