Her

Smile

Cheaky grin

Eyes crinkle up

I can't help but laugh

We just stand there a mess

My daughter and I alike

I can't be mad at her for long

I pull her to my chest, hold her tight

The clock rings midnight as we drift to sleep...

Fern's legs grew weak as she sprinted alongside Merras, the seething minotaur in close pursuit. They weaved in and out of the thick maze of towering trees and overgrown brush, leaping over roots jutting from the moss covered soil beneath them. The forest seemed to attempt mutiny, once their friend, yet now threatening to hand them over to their enemy.

Merras caught his foot on a rock and tripped...

As the gentle currents of wind took our hot air balloon slowly over the estuary, I could see the pocket of life teeming below while fishermen and traders argued over their goods. They were so distant that I could barely see them, mere grains of sand scattered along the shoreline.

Having spent my life in the chaos below, I was desperate for a reprieve, anything but the smell of fish and the never...

His eyes, the galexies deep within them, glimmered as he hovered just a few inches from my face. Surely he knew already, the way he gazed deep into my soul. Those eyes knew no end of the myseteries of life. He just had yet to realize it.

A fire sparked to life in my chest, threatening to reveal itself before I was ready. I took a deep breath to subdue the power building in my core, though it did...