Prologue
Wings for breakfast Dewdrops for lunch Heartstrings for dinner at midnight.
Epilogue
I left that very night. Hood up and eyes down, so no one would see it. No matter how hard I tried to remove it, it wouldn’t go away.I roamed the earth and never returned home. I even had a daughter, and named her Abel, to appease my sister, but I remained marked.
Part Three
I faked everything. School was easy, my parents never checked The rest was harder, it wasn’t easy to pretend I was the best in my gymnastics class when I had never touched a baton. I acted sick for a while, to excuse my sudden failures. My parents worried, my father wanted to take me to a specialist, my mother stayed […]
Part Two
‘Where’s Abel?’ my father asks. I’ve changed into his dead daughter’s clothes, dressed her carefully as if she were a porcelain doll, I have been wearing her face for my whole life, and yet he can tell us apart. ‘I’m Abel, dad.’ I respond. ‘Oh.’ That’s all he says. No questions about where I am. He doesn’t care, the thought […]
Part One
We live in the countryside, on the outskirts of a small town, surrounded by miles of fields and aspen trees. We supply the town’s market with our produce. Surprisingly, I’m in charge of taking care of the plants, the one thing I’m actually good at, not that I’m better than Abel, but farming and gardening would get in the way […]
Death
Part Two. ‘You didn’t kill her, you were too late, but not by your own fault. Truth is, Lyre has been dead from the beginning. But there is still a way to save her, to bring her back, if you’re interested.’ A being greeted me when I turned around, not human, but not a spirit either, with eyes as dark […]
Melody
Part one Arista, a flower native to Briar, with cornflower blue petals during the day, that transformed into a vivid shade of Persian pink as the sun set. They only bloomed here, herbologists all over the world had tried growing them in other nations, but to no avail. They were so rare in fact, that they only grew in one […]
Slumber
Prologue She never woke up. Briar, a nation of wilderness with fields of linseed blossoms dotted with mauve petals, where legends lived and bloomed from the branches of pomegranate trees. Creatures from every ocean, sky, and land came to Briar, in hope of making some extraordinary discovery. Shadows whispered that even standing near its borders could grant you your wildest […]
Prologue
‘You should be dead.’ I know because I was the last person to leave your funeral. I was the one you last spoke to. I was the one who killed you with that stone. *** Do you know how hard it is to be a twin? You share everything with them: Everything you own, for everything is hers, your identity, […]
Dying Sunflowers
There was someone in my life once who gave me a bouquet of sunflowers, and I took care of them day and night. They were their favourite flowers, so much that they had a dried one stitched onto their hand, its petals weaved into their veins and the stem tied around their wrist, their own version of a lucky charm, […]