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  • A letter from an ancient friend.
  • The Planner
  • Obi's Wave

    My grandmother used to say “life is like the ocean” and leave it to us to decipher that proverb. My mother always told me that it meant we could drift with the currents instead of risking the waves, but I disagree. I’ve always thought that the tides were the epitome of deception. No matter what you choose to do, your skin will end up wrinkled and the waves will smother you in the end.It was a brisk winter’s morning with sunlight streaming through branches clad in frost and the earliest strands of Christmas lights. The final leaves of autumn rocked through the air like paper boats on their way ...VjHone door

    Enough

    Dave Dearborn loathed his wife.Since they had started working together, she had changed from the compliant housewife that she once was and considered herself above him, which was a joke. The bitch couldn’t sink a sale if a three-ton weight were attached to it.He sat on the couch and considered the state of things as he scrolled through Netflix to find something to take his mind off of his crappy life. Pam was out shopping and sure as shit, she’d forget most of the things he’d asked her to pick up at the store. He knew this because the airhead had left the shopping list right there on the dinin...VjHone door

    A letter from an ancient friend.

    You would be surprised how kind the humans can be. If all you do is listen to words, you would think their entire kind was on the brink of civil war. Yet, for ten thousand winters, ten thousand springs, ten thousand summers and ten thousand autumns, I have lived on their blood without ever taking without permission. Normally I would only need to feed once a decade or so, as blood is shockingly nourishing, but given I am a mere beggar, it would be incredibly rude to take all of one's blood. I feed once www.onedoor.cca year or so, usually the hardest time of year. The hunger is a strong force, but at least fo...VjHone door

    The Planner

    “Ellie, Mrs. Madonna would kill me if she saw you here after hours on a friday.” Leo, My best friend moaned again from the checkout isle of the library. The meticulous beeping of the register had become like a pattern to me. Leo looked around worriedly to check if his supervisor had seen him like he was committing a crime. “Sorry, the high school reunion took longer than anticipated. My schedule did not consider that Ivy Lillis would corner me at the buffet and make fun of my planner like she did in grade school. It also did not consider that I would have told her that I had scheduled my plann...VjHone door

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