She had never been so cold before, in all her eight, short years of living. She couldn’t really wrap her head around the mind-freezing coldness that started to nestle itself into her very bones. The numbness was not all that uncomfortable, though, she almost liked the sleepiness of her feet, the tickling. It was so…
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You are breathing fire, a phoenix risen from the embers reborn and yet the same as always; strong and dark and clever and good. You are breathing fire because it has been spreading in your lungs a small spark planted there when you were born, feeding on all the small and big injustices that…
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There are exactly nine ghosts in this house. They are all real, even though you cannot see them. On days where the sun warms the brown bricks of the stately home and her rays are breaking through the rounded high windows you can almost adumbrate them, each one in her window, an apparition paler than…
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