Fiction

A Letter from an Old Friend

Herbert Hallaway was a man whose every day of the last decade began exactly at dawn. As soon as the sun rose above the horizon, letting the first rays into his room, [...]

The Province of Pain

Tenzin took a deep but ragged breath and, with it, his first step up the narrow, dark stairs of the tenement building. Step. It had all begun in the spring of 1919, [...]

The Thorn Prince

The crown fit my head as an organic extension of myself, forged to the exact curve of my skull, yet I could hear the sharp voice of my mother repeating enough times [...]

The Artists Cemetery

There is a place in my village, by the sea, where dreams of artistry go to die. A heavy gate and statues of crying angels hold up a sign that reads: “THE [...]

Chameleon

In the glass and steel towers of Candid Caribou Corp, where the air hummed with ambition and the scent of freshly printed contracts lingered in every hallway, there arrived a newcomer named [...]

Raven Wing

With blackened wings I flyMy mystic spirit guideAn ever-watchful sentinelThe raven at my sideWith blackened wings I flyMy magic spirit guideAn omen of my transformationOn raven wings I fly – Jon Schaffer [...]

Zuzanna Szmyt-Nowakowska

Covid-51

May 14, 2052 It’s been eight months since the outbreak and almost five months since the Nowak Revelation. It seems like this horror has been going on forever. My family and I [...]

Stockholm

Five days have passed and I am still a hostage. There is a certain feeling of longing and sentiment at the back of my head when I remember my mother, probably too [...]

An abstract painting: striking orange elements juxtaposed against the pale green, black, and white background

Almighty

I couldn’t sleep last night, I was too nervous. Excited? No, that’s not it. Or is it? To be honest, I even started to have second thoughts at one point. God forbid; [...]

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Noah Jay Lucero, my dearest friend and a pretty smart fellow for a twenty-eight-year-old, is the world’s savior. Also, probably the richest and the best-known person in the world right now. I [...]