“Help!” My cries are swallowed by the silence. I could scream and holler and beg to unknown Gods, but no one would hear me. My feet are stuck in an unseen mire. I cannot move forward. I cannot move back. I am cemented here, sinking. The more I struggle the deeper I go. There […]
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Inspired by Writing Prompt Twenty-Seven: The distance was trivial on paper, but the expanse of an entire sea kept me from her golden hair and violet eyes. My lips grew bitter from the journey. “You’re thinking out loud again” she said, from the other side of the puddle. “Drat! Curse these seas, I shall have […]
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Flour spattered her apron, her cheeks, the hairs on her arms up to her elbows. The cold marble slab beneath her kneading hands knocked against her hip bones as she coerced the dough into thin discs. Copper pots dangled from their hooks against the white subway tiles on the wall. Everything was white that wasn’t […]
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Soul Music by Terry Pratchett My rating: 2 of 5 stars Ok, I’m going to say this very quietly because I know that Terry Pratchett has a devoted following who loves and appreciates his writing style and creativity: I hated it. Soul Music follows many characters of the Discworld through an independent collection of self awakening. While Susan, […]
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“Joseph, Stop!” And in an instant the chaos of the world stood still for one woman. A heavy clicking of baseball cards marking time against the spokes of a bicycle’s wheels ceased to tick. The mutter of a car rolling down the family friendly suburban neighborhood silenced. Freshly mown lawns dotted with old oaks […]
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Three reverberating tongs of the church bell tower. Three soul crushing collisions of metal against metal. The grating of rust. The particles of dust drifting slowly down from the rafters below the church spire. From my pew I sit, resting my feet from their courageous – no – their cowardly flight from unholy men. […]
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke My rating: 4 of 5 stars Enter a world of Napoleonic rule, dark alleyways, and reclusive estates. Enter a world of apprenticeship and fa(e)teful dealings. Enter a world of practical magic; a world exclusive to Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Allow me a moment of honesty – this book requires […]
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She was a girl in a flower shop. A girl named Marigold. And it was the first time I ever felt the twinges of pain which accompany love. Her slender, golden fingers wrapped the flowers for my mother’s bouquet. Her slender, golden fingers punched the keys at the register. Her slender, golden fingers handed me […]
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She moved like a gypsy, her tent untethered, her shoes pointing north. And in her wake she left a trail of friendships, lovers, and mistakes. At the foot of a staggering mountainside, below the tree line which cut into the pure white powder, a fire burned; flames lapping in the wind. Clouds of icy snow […]
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Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers My rating: 5 of 5 stars Rumo is a Wolperting, although he doesn’t know it yet. His life begins lazily as a Hackonian farmer’s pet pup; spoiled and loved. His only responsibilities to accept belly rubs, the cooing of admirers, and occasionally come to understand the […]
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