(for hour 9—this too shall pass prompt—from Onweald)   Pain Not Passing (by the character Nigel Taiman)   Amanda How can one body endure sorrow such as this Not even when lashed by The Dragon’s claws did I know such pain You were the one…

The cottage hid behind the treeline. A firefly circled my bottle of Stella.   It was good to breathe without the mask. It was good to escape the heat and strange faces of the desert city.   The lethargy of summer in my knees, The…

Brought to a lake six-thousand-feet up in the Colorado Rockies forty years have passed and I wonder if it is the altitude or the view repossessing my breath have found us goat-like on the move, jumping from rock-to-rock tempting foot-soaking fate or worse I would…

Senses struggle to resist The chance to explode To become one with the divinity that surrounds, Envelops, Embraces. The deafening rings of the muted sounds of nature, Save for the sounds of Breaths, Footfalls There is only solitude. Whispers of the slow moving river and…

What’s happening? I want to leave. Why can’t I just go for it? I want to just leave.   I want to be gone, being responsible for everything… Whether it is my fault or not!   I just want to live already! I want to…

Stalking, violent, darkness, despair floating, flying across the air wicked men whip the lash as innocence fades into the past   Blood stained roads and marble floors monuments built on war Bleached white bones line the stairs yet two by two we follow in pairs…