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There is no end to my love for Jemjasee. I pace the ragged cliffs, searching the sea for her ship. My longing will not cease until I am...

Mary Ann Thompson smoothed her hands over the long-sleeved maid uniform before going through the service door to the Lord Baltimore...

Once, my father Frederick went into the woods. It was a cold night in Leipzig when I, Sieglinde, was born. I was the twelfth child of a...

This morning the red ant and larger white-winged fly chase the frightened large striped spider across the cold floor. Why, what thirst...

When the last lithe leopard in the emperor's crowded preserve leapt down from his arboreal perch pink-mouthed and mottled, where was the...

Twenty seventeen was the year the starling got trapped in the wall. It was seeking warmth from the cold in order to survive. It clawed...

I sleep in a dream generated in the nightmares and eat scraps of hope, milled in the impersonal and mechanical time’s machine. Scraps...

Lift the sash, let your pale leaves taste the late summer air. Welcome the balmy wind, all pollen and dust settling on sad arms of empty...

“I don’t want to do it.” Dorothy scowled at her little sister Margaret as she opened the box and pulled out the ouija board, being...

Those who debunk the supernatural can’t have ever experienced it When I read about Blake seeing the soul of his brother rise up through...

Might I decay, in russet brilliance, just like you, leaf. Fall adopts her prettiest dress when the singing thrush appears. With age might...

“Please choose your heaven,” said the ethereal voice in my head. I looked around but I couldn’t see anything—everything was a shifting,...

The steps to the basement are dark. The basement itself is even darker. Something scurries across the damp floor. Most likely a rat. At...

She was angry with her mother. The boys were going to Big Creek to swim and she wasn’t allowed. She was ten. It wasn’t fair. The only...

His one kidney failing my friend each night saw visions, unknown creatures, forms half human, ghosts, circle his bed as always tiny...

We make him dress up, hooded cloak, scythe and skull, the Grim Reaper, put a name to it sinister slapstick to cover the skeleton he is....