Metis

“It’s because it’s the beginning, and also the end. That was what she loved about the place where the water met the land. A promise of something fresh, a suggestion that even if what is happening now is to be suffered, there is an end and a beginning.” ― Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth A … Continue reading Metis

Introspection

She stopped for a brief moment, realizing the deep emptiness pushing harder and harder against her chest again and again, drawing attention to the smothering blackness eating her from the inside, reaching through the bones into the brain, poisoning it with thoughts, gnawing slowly at her soul. Her hearth had fallen out somewhere along the … Continue reading Introspection