The Trees_Poor Silly Souls_Willie Tall-Tales_A Queen's Choice
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The Trees
…I shouldn’t be able to tell how small this room is in the dark, but somehow I feel its compression. The motionless abyss hides all in plain sight – strangely, there is comfort in that. I don’t have to move, don’t have to think, don’t have to look ahead or behind; I simply exist away from time. I’m not sure how or why, but I feel myself standing up, blindly stumbling a fewwww.onedoor.cc steps, slowly lifting my arm, and groggily twisting the handle. The door opens in the middle of a forest at first dawn, the yawning sun cracking its eyelid behind the trees. I notice these trees are all perfe...
Poor Silly Souls
The younger the mind, the easier it can be used for the will of others. Those poor silly souls.*Eleanor looked at her reflection in the mirror. The round almond eyes were perfectly framed by long curled brown hair. Her plump red lips parted as she pulled in a steady breath, raising the intricate blue and silver necklace across her chest. A small button nose finished off her face, lightly decorated by freckles across her cheeks. All her life Eleanor had been told she was gifted by the god of beauty, a rare gift, a chiseled masterpiece. A heavy burning grew in her chest as her eyes traced o...
Willie Tall-Tales
There was once a boy and his name was Will. He lived with his grandmother in a tiny cottage in a village in Ireland, and the tales that boy could tell!“Why are you late for school, Willie?” the schoolmaster would ask.And Will would make his eyes big and round as he replied that he had been on his way to school, but the Little Folk had enticed him to play truant and spend the day skipping about the meadows with them instead.Or his grandmother would want to know where he had been all day when she sent him for a pail of buttermilk at first light and it was now dusk and she had done no baking at a...
A Queen's Choice
She stared out at the city. Now engulfed in flames. The orange lights shining brightly against the dark buildings erected throughout the many districts of the city. Though the fog that descended upon the city's moonlit streets gave the fires a fairly beautiful look, the Queen knew why these fires had been started in the first place. In direct protest of her handling of the plague.Behind closed doors, the Queen invested everything she could into discovering a cure for this plague that had managed to sweep through her city in record time. However progress was slow, and her entire medical staff ...