A blog of written and visual stories from a second life
┋Prisons are not always bars and guards. Sometimes, it’s the bone of our skull, the paint on the walls, the kind words that rain down. Prisons are not always bars and guards. And so, prisons can always be escaped from.┋ Continue reading✤ Prisons
┋Doing battle is seldom something one can do for extended periods of time. Even the most frightening, nightmarish warriors sometimes desire a respite from swinging and battering and killing. Sometimes, even the most toughened of men require the solace of the sun breathing down on them, the fresh breath of a glass in their hands. And I am no exception. And I am no exception.┋
┠ Read the rest belowContinue reading✤ Respite
┋They all get terrified when they move right past me at the door way and, as soon as the gates close behind them, there I am again, smile on the lips and wisecrack on the tongue, welcoming them to eternal damnation.┋
┠ Read the rest belowContinue reading✤ Welcome, glad to have you with us!
┋Philip I of Macedon to the Spartans: If I invade Laconia, you will be destroyed never to rise again!
The Spartans: If.┋ Continue reading✤ IF
┋ Gafflwn Dihenydd, o’r fuddugol yn wiriol sydd.
Ni fydd neb yn ein Drechu, Falch ydy ni i drochu,
Traed o flaen i’r Annwn, mewn y gwybodaeth fe godwn ni. ┋Continue reading✤ Jäger
┋He closed his eyes and took a breath in, the sum of everything staining the oxygen invading his lungs. Burdening as it was, he knew this moment had to come, a prophecy shouted out by every single minute of every single day.┋
┠ Read the rest belowContinue reading✤ Poke the man, the devil comes
┋I’m not Anubis, Aeacus, Minos or Radamanthus. I’m not Yama or Naraka. But good ol’ Batsie is.┋ Continue reading✤ Have a seat, it’s painless
┋Been gone for so long I might have just found God
Well probably not, if I keep my habits up┋
┠ Read the rest belowContinue reading✤ This ain’t nothing to relate to
┋The gust of wind had caught him by surprise. The fresh scent of April had, at first, teased him with a joke. Being in that place, though, made the joke from being about his life to the times he had spent there in his youth. The laughter, the games, the picnics, the friendships, all coming together in what was most likely the last breath of his innocence.┋
┠ Read the rest belowContinue reading✤ The spring of back then
┋It had been close to a year since he had left everything and everyone behind. The car had accrued a hefty amount of wear during that time and it showed.┋
┠ Read the rest belowContinue reading✤ Running