The Mountain That DreamsIt stood motionless, a silent pillar of bone and starlight, waiting for the day the river finally ran backward - the signal that its internal world was ready to become the external one. (1)
The Feast Was HerselfNo one invited her. No one stopped her. She was hungry, and that was enough. (1)
The Violinists from ElsewhereThe music is a message meant for a place they can never return to, and every trembling chord is part farewell, part invocation. (2)
Citadel of the Fallen TitanThese two are similar so I uploaded together. The fallen titan’s skull has become a mountain-sized citadel, its hollow eye socket cradling forests and forgotten towers that vanish into drifting seas of cloud. Sunlight burns along the crumbling... See More » (2)
Sugarplague (title too short)Generated by me in Midjourney Sugarplague never arrived as a wave; it sifted down like dust. It crept in on fingertips and countertops, in the harmless glitter of spilled candy and the glaze on morning pastries. At first it was only a rumor—that if... See More » (1)
You're Waking Up And They Don't Want You To by The Functional Melancholic"People are mistaking engineered anxiety for personal failure." Further Reading: 1. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control - Stephen Kinzer (A chilling account of the chemist who ran the CIA’s darkest... See More » (1)