Guardian angels.

All for one reason to stay.

Sent from heaven itself.

To be at your side every day.

Angels only have one goal.

Says you need a friend.

Never alone soul.

Never afraid as they fend.

This is not only about me.

Hell, can I be an angel too?

Angels do need other angels, don’t you agree?

I want to look after you, too....

They say the sun isn’t the brightest star,

and you can find stars in the sky.

You _see_ it.

I see _it._

When we look up,

we bask in white light.

Not mine, not yours—

but the sun and the moon.

It ain’t broken,

but we break it up.

Because you’re the one who takes the bullet.

Says you, not me.

Maybe we should take that detour.

So we can make it past noon....

It’s severe.

I know I should’ve gone.

Says I don’t care, but,

I could’ve been.

The pressure filled my lungs.

I inhaled that stress.

In the past, at the fair.

I gave in to the peer and the present.

I can, I can.

What am I even saying?

I cannot....

And all they could do was cry.

“Do you recall what adults always told us when we were young?” A muted voice managed to escape from the bird’s nest that had been stuck on the roof of their heads. The cuckoo stayed as they sat on the white sand, which felt like sugar when it touched their skin. The sun was still sleeping for the next two hours, just enough time for them to drop into the gentle par...

Amidst shades of grey strangers, there was a free-spirited color that rose from a sheer breath at the center of the room.

It could smile and it could see. I hoped it had a heart that beat harder, just like mine did. It casually leaned back in one of the chairs with one hand in the air, saying, “Here,” facing forward while its eyes fixed on mine.

I learned its name. It ended with an e, and it b...

Over the speaker, the usual morning song plays on repeat. Just another five minutes, and I feel my feet touch the cold floor.

_Why does it have to be so cold? _

Reluctantly, I turn off the air conditioner so the room temperature will warm a bit. My mind and body scream that I’m hungry, but I don’t want to get up. Just another five minutes, please. Oh, wait- I think I’ll make it eight.

_Eight ...

From afar, if you squint enough, you see the upturned smile with crinkling around the eyes.

Moving closer, if you touch the big lumps on both sides of the top figure, you get an inappropriate reaction, especially if it’s your first time meeting them, the entity.

The entity, as we call them, the human, decides to call us humanoid. The surface level of humans with no real experience or expression...

In a world of knights and monsters divided by the south and north poles of magnets, there was a noble knight whose name rang to every rim of the land, honored for his decorum throughout his life. Amnon of Amouros—they chanted his name so gallantly.

Yet he kept one secret hidden from the public eye, that he befriended the monsters he once captured and ordered to be killed by his sworn lord.

Enigm...

Deep in the woods, where pine trees were shrouded in pallid, foggy weather, there was a pair of children carefully walking on the narrow path where the trees started getting higher and thicker, so even the sun struggled to let its light reach them.

The girl was dragging a twig in her right hand that made a trail whenever she walked deeper into the woods.

“Alby, do you think we’re lost?” Her fee...

Walking fast down the road is Ellie, a promising young artist who has just finished her night shift from her part-time job in the city. Her feet pace with time, taking her to the place where she needs to be half an hour ago.

There is so much cleaning to do at the workplace, so she stays late. Sweat drips on her forehead. She’s exhausted, but she can’t stop for anything to catch a breath.

Turnin...