Looking up, the sky was ablaze with orange smoke and glittering embers dancing placidly among it. The only noise feasible to him was the low ringing in his ears. Tears flowed down his cheeks carving paths through dust packed onto old sweat and blood packed onto more dirt and so on. His chest hurt. Fuck, his entire body hurt. He rolled slowly from his back onto his side and fell from his side onto ...

She was but 6 inches tall. I’m sorry, 6 and a *half* inches tall. A human, but much smaller. Standing in the middle of the keeled over, split branch where she made her home, she swept excess dust towards the edge. Moving the leaves she had hung up for privacy to the side, she gently pushed the dust pile out of her house and onto the forest floor beneath where it would be naturally recycled.

...

The summer sun was fresh and hot, dangling there in the sky and dripping it’s heat onto the kids playing beneath it in the schoolyard. Looking across the green field she could see the shimmering illusion of a heatwave rising up from the grass.

Fanning herself with the papers she’d brought out just for that purpose, she strode over towards the playground where it seemed two of her students wer...

Throughout the days of antiquity,

Throughout the haze of being me.

Hope it stands so steadily,

Guides our hands with ease, you see?

Searching ever through pains of past

To move you forth, not backwards, fast....