The rays of Sun crept quietly into the room, illuminating the bags littered about. You shield your eyes, hoping to catch the last few moments in sleep’s arms. But it’s futile, you know you must wake up. There was so much to do today. You have been both giddy and anxious about this day for some time. Your friends could not believe that you have waited so long to experience this, but you had had an ...

I dare to look in the mirror and find pain and misery, an inability to experience joy. Hollow eyes stare back, reflecting the emptiness of the soul within. There’s no life, love or laughter in the reflection. It feels like I have been pulled outside my corporeal state, separated to act as a bystander to my physical demise. Numerous betrayals, lies, and treachery have beaten me down, leaving only a...

The two dukes climbed the steps to the king’s chambers, hoping for a resolution. His graces, Lord Beckford and Lord Thurston, had been in a decades-long blood feud, dating back two generations. Beckford’s great-great-grandfather had stolen parcels of land from Thurston’s ancestor. The two dukes had battled it out in a duel that saw Lord Thurston’s great-great-grandfather ram a sword into the belly...

Isaac couldn’t remember all the details of the day, the day the Harrowers came and attacked his village. A sneak attack so well planned that no one could have anticipated it. Late in the night of the fateful day, the troops attacked. It was a carnage, a veritable abattoir with appendages and torsos strewn about. The mangled bodies of the most defenseless lay discarded in the burning sun like refus...