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  • Darkness Descending

    Darkness DescendingPrologue - A Grim and Clouded SkyThe raven wheeled through the dismal sky, revelling in the turbulent currents, the ceaseless flow of the air, the scintillating aroma of the ...

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  • Wintry Shadow

    The icy bite of frosty deathShadows caper madly in desperate ireHiss and the swift dark plungesThe pleasure and welcome of descent into blackThe freezing surroundDoes blaze with the chillLie in ...

    1 min read
  • Mistakes

    I walked into her on the way to my locker one morning. That was my first mistake. I made many that day.Books scattered across the concrete, papers flung out, churned ...

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  • Rabbit Jake

    The Rabbit JakeBestrode a muleAnd rode into the townHis eyes agleam with silver's blissAnd thoughts of feather downHe tossed a coinUpon the barAnd called for spirits rawHe slaked his thirst, ...

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
— Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"