The Two

I mounted the steps of The Art Institute Of Chicago in the blizzard night. There had never been a snowfall like this and I trudged to the museum down the center of Michigan Avenue even as the city was put away, its tall buildings and lights encased in drifts. The museum was open on most Wednesday…

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Go Inside The Asylum

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The Looking-Glass

Our eyes meet, and my heart burns itself to ash Growing wide wings of infinite desire and longing for the scent of her hair wafting like an iridescent fog through the darkened forest of my mind. Her smile of blinding star-formed happiness…

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Idiot

I’ve always found it strange how I think I’m a nice person until I do things that are cruel. And then immediately after I’ve gotten over feeling bad for doing them (even if I haven’t done anything to make up for them), I start feeling like a nice person again. In a way, that might…

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I Met Her Online

  [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/78963684″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]   Dear Anna, before I fall too deep in love. You’re my best friend and it’s a shame we have to do this via text. You know how it is with long distance. I want you to know what the last 3 months have really been like. I…

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A Letter Unfinished

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Finally He Touched Her

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/68269181″ params=”color=757575&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] The room was black. The windows whispered a thin line of light in, and they too were shy. And as the coffee poured, it fell into the mug more aggressively this time. It too was black. Mateo wore these past few months on his face in an unkempt…

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Victoria

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/88929274″ params=”color=757575&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Charles didn’t seem to know what Victoria meant when she said “the church is just here to lie about eschatological matters.” His face always behaved awkwardly whenever Victoria used a word he didn’t know. And right now it showed a very indistinct mixture of shame and disgust. They…

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Play in the Darkness

  The following is an excerpt from a set of manuscripts uncovered at the site of what seemed like a collapse of a great structure. Also uncovered in the rubble were artifacts indicative of an advanced people with civilized customs. Some human bone remains were found, but further investigation is needed to determine the exact fate of…

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The Forging of Greatness

  [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/22223885″ params=”color=757575&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]   In an earlier day… In the depths of the valley of Caprice, about 75 miles north of the Adriatic Sea, a great contest underwent. A war raged between the two great cities of Pella and Vanicia, a battle of beasts. Who can tame the will to…

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