Lying on my back,

staring at mt eyelids

while I wait for light

to slip through the cracks.

“Wake up, wake up,”

a voice calls from the void.

Try as I might,

I can’t yet drink from the cup.

Still, sensation begins to flow

like a river on a rock -

slowly smoothing edges

the imperfections we all know.

Lifting my arms and feeling some restriction -

chains that hold me back

distorting my sense of f...

"Next up, we have... Jack, Jack Wiley. I stood up, from my brown cross-stitched chair, past the desk of the secretary, and through a set of double doors. The walls were covered in an off white shade of paint, with one window poking out from behind the heads of two men seated at a folding table. “What's yer name son?" the man on the left said gruffly. "John... John Wiley, "I stammered.” You could h...

Returning to a state of fear,

There is a sole idea held dear

by all those that travel here.

They seek freedom, the ability to dream.

Whether cursed by loneliness,

harmed by traumatic experience,

or just simply a mess.

This wish may cause you to break at the seams.

I was once like you, a foolish child.

My nightmares were constant, it drove me wild.

The shortened days left my mind full of bile.

M...

Narrator: Long did I remember the battle of the cyber-planet Arachnae. The screams piercing your ears like a hot knife, the quakes from each and every step; but t, what I remember most was the darkness. We mercilessly flung ourselves our of the darkness and into the light and for what? We were too late.

"Soldiers!" Cried General Daygon, " tonight, we feast upon the flesh of our enemies, bathe in...