Where am I?
“You are just a son. Your mother’s greatest creation. While I am her thieving damnation.”
Read MoreThe Somewhere Blues
“I open my eyes wider than golf balls and take in every photon of diffuse light. True, they fill mostly with blue, but it comes in many shades, and I'm familiar with them all.”
Read MoreQueen Jurata and the Amber Palace
“She did not die in battle, and she could not die naturally. Jurata died as peacefully as a god has ever died.”
Read MoreStolen Skin
“He looks down at his hands, pale and tinged blue, the color of a drowned corpse, with webbing linking his fingers together. He despises his hands, just like he despises her.”
Read MoreBuckwheat Flower of the Ocean
“A buckwheat flower cannot stay in the ocean, let alone salt water, if it is to bloom.”
Read MoreTo have, to hold.
“I believed in kraken, sirens, the like. It wasn’t hard to believe that the stories that had been told had to come from some form of truth.”
Read MoreEternity is Terribly Dull Without Company
“Humans thought themselves eternal. They bottled stars, dug holes through their own planet’s ribs, stitched their world with wires so taut it snapped in an instant.”
Read MoreThe Drowning of Loki
“Another child, another loss. Another testament to my mistakes and all I could not do.”
Read MoreUnder the Water of the Lake
“But it was more than the chill of his skin and the strange way he was talking, it was his smell too that triggered something deep in me. He smelled not of sweat, as I might’ve expected, but of the lake, of the reeds and mud.”
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