Clockworks

[pre]I crept to the room slowly, a hesitant shadow, his arms outstretched, beckoning, a bloody indication, silent save the occasional gulp, eyes wide with shock. I moved toward him calmly, ...

[pre]Caged rainbows, moving tirelessly around their reflective prisons. Oddly clean - for prisoners. Most sink, sucked into the dark abyss, the lucky ones survive a little longer. The slight breeze ...

[pre]If you ask me my name, I will tell you I've none. A name is but a title, albeit an achievement. Unearned as of yet, but awaiting. Resting silently atop ...

[pre] A life given, and taken back.

[pre] Spring the beginning,

[pre]Come time to wrap the presents, Christmas, Valentines, birthdays, anniversaries, people have tendencies they normally don't. They put on the masks of generosity and happiness, while they delve de

[pre]Since we met, almost two years ago, you've been sculpting away, at the marble of my heart. Like the earth, it will be permanent, and become the legacy. Like the ...

[pre]There the child stands, her dress of lavender reaching only to scraped knees. Cleome crowns her gold-brown hair, woven by the stems. An assorted bouquet she clutches in both hands, ...

"Cap'n, she's goin' down." "Rothschild, me hearty lieutenant, aft everythin' I done, I ain't losin' me ship. Ye give these scurvy-infested swabs a taste o' the cat if ye've got ...