The Empty Chamber

“I bet you can shoot it like all the others. I mean, how hard can it be? We’ve been shooting guns every day since the Drum started,” Em said. She was leaning against an overgrown Birch tree sitting at the top of the hill. She was short, soft, with red hair and blue eyes. She …

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This Dark Necessity

I need to know the witchesare there dancing a black-fabricbreeze beneath a silver moon.The empty trees bowing their evesand the firelight shutteringagainst their pigeon bones. I need to know the skeleton claws on thefloorboards, in a half-empty mansion,with old paintings of withered men.From a half-made phantom of billowingfabric points, with ruby eyes blazingsearching for a …

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The Alleyway

Was it during the eclipse of a haunted moon?The sky shedding ruby mist, dyed by indigo lightsoff a promenade of gothic ghoulsbearing teal torches,without an underworld to call home. Maybe a purple storm butchering the heavens?Giant machines of yellow steel roam its edges withclocktower gears powering their otherworld joints.They snatch the nearby lightning in veins …

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