The bird flew toward the setting sun just in time. It settled on a now cool branch that bent like a chair. It pecked once at the bark, casual, like it belonged there.

Its blue feathers were turning purple now, the light wrapping around its body until its head was buried in a deep, throbbing violet. The glow from the sun caught the shimmer in its wings, and I couldn’t help but just stand there, wa...

I crept along the shoreline in perfect silence. Plenty of water rushed towards me, but I couldn't hear a thing. I sat at a great spot, not so perfect but nowhere near as amazing as this silence. His hands waved before me, and I took off my headphones.

“You think I want to listen to this?” I muttered quietly.

I didn't even so much as look at him.

I was fed up.

I…

“Listen shithead…”

That's ...

The blades of grass peeled open as they brushed against my skin, fading lifelessly as they wilted, like they had simply decided to die.

I looked back at the desolate path of death and how the curling death of the leaves mirrored how I felt inside. I knew I had taken plenty from this earth and it was time to give back.

But now, the soil sighed beneath my feet, a slow exhale of warmth and warning...

The cool chill in the air makes my skin crawl. I wriggle in my boat to get more comfortable, watching the worm on my fishing hook do the same.

The moon had an orange glow, its shape abnormal, it was as if it had been dragged towards our now blackened sky and stretched out like dough. My mind raced with many things at once. Then suddenly… quiet. My mind became calm and still like the waters surro...

The wind whistled from tree bark to tree Bark as the peel of the trees slowly began to unfurl. The trees' skin, hard and withered, rolled up into winding balls that made their way to the soil, collapsing as though tired from their journey.

I sat and wondered at this marvellous phenomenon that presented itself before me. How could this be? For a faint flicker of a moment, I felt as though maybe i...

Now, from reading this story's title, you are probably thinking… is this man a drunk? Well, I guess you could call me that. I’ve finished my 3rd glass, and things are starting to feel a bit wonky. Wavy. Maybe wavy is a better word. The funny thing is, though, my cat also has the same name as this title. And now you probably think you are sure of it. “He must be a drunk,” is that what you're thinki...

“Wow,” the words blew out softly into the wind.

“Now that is a sight…”

I couldn't believe my eyes. The hill blended from green and became barren, about a hundred yards away from the most vivid scenery I've ever seen.

Fields of lavender smothered the ground upon the hill. Surrounding a tall, thin checkered building standing erect with a shiny gold window.

I Could not wrap my head a how people...

Here,

It sung in the distance of my mind,

I turned but perhaps not in time,

Again it sung,

Here,

It crept from the cobwebs of my memory,

Quietly,

Surely,

I felt it getting closer,

In a melody that pained me,

Shivers,

Here!

A quiet shout,

A call for help?

I couldn’t tell,

I shouldn’t dwell,

HEre!

Louder,

HERe!

Louder,

HERE!

I screamed,

The voice squeezing out of my lungs finally,

I winced...

Hohoho,

Here he comes,

Bad Santa!!!!

Oh nonono,

Here he booms!!!

Bad Santa!!!!

‘Leave a cigarette and whiskey at the chimney’ says he,

Bad Santa!!!

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Hello, to seasons new, and seasons gone by, how peaceful they both are, the changes, the transformations, just like us, we mirror them, how beautiful life is…...