Ashes of Chalk
Kael arrived in Darnel City with the fervor of a cartographer mapping uncharted terrain—anticipating resistance, yes, but wholly convinced that the contours of corruption could be reshaped by persistent reason. His worldview, tempered by years of grassroots activism and deep philosophical inquiry, clung to the conviction that no institution was irredeemable. He believed that systemic […]
Filling the Void
Some people are just wired differently. No matter how much light enters their world, they always notice the shadow. No matter how much warmth surrounds them, they still feel the lingering chill. It’s not that they are ungrateful or unwilling to move forward—it’s just that something within them remains untouched, unfound. It is an unshakable […]
Cigarettes and Solitude
A cigarette is not just a cigarette. It is a pause, a brief escape, a reason to step away from things that demand too much. It is the quiet companion of people who need silence, the fleeting ritual of those who have made peace with their own contradictions. I have made choices—some deliberate, some impulsive, […]
The Legend of Sharkneezing: Captain Finnley Wade and the Nautilus Circle
In the late 1800s, Captain Finnley Wade was a name both revered and ridiculed among seafarers. A deep-sea explorer with an insatiable curiosity, he spent his life chasing the ocean’s mysteries. He had charted hidden islands, encountered luminescent creatures of the abyss, and once claimed to have seen a ghostly ship swallowed by the Bermuda […]
Echoes in the Spiral
Thought spills, liquid mercury, slipping between the cracks of time, curling into loops that whisper— was this now, or was this then? Shapes fold in on themselves, petals of a flower that never was, breathing colors, melting syllables, dissolving into the hum behind silence. The past flickers—half-remembered, half-imagined, a déjà vu stitched from star remnants, […]
The Weight of Time
She kneels before time, a hooded figure draped in silence, watching the sands fall, each grain a name, a story, a breath that once burned bright, now dust. She knows— the sobs that shake the living, the hands that clutch at nothing, the weight of meaning unraveling with every step she takes. She is not […]
The Never-Fading Echo
Here lies one who was never truly still, not in mind, not in heart, not in soul. He was a traveler of thought, an architect of questions, a restless tide that met every shore only to pull away once more. He did not walk a straight road, nor did he seek one. Instead, he wove […]
What If “Fire and Ice” Had a Third Option?
They say the world will end in fire—or in ice. Fire is the heat of desire, the pulse of longing, the fury that consumes. It is love in its wildest form, untamed and all-encompassing, leaving behind only embers and ash. It is the anger that rises too fast, the passion that burns too bright, the […]
The Garden of the Soul
Within the heart, a garden lies,Unseen by any, yet it grows,Beneath the vast and changing skies,Through summer’s warmth and winter’s snows. No hand but mine may shape its ground,No voice but mine its hush may break;The winds may call, the storms resound,Yet still it blooms for my own sake. No fleeting star, no wayward breeze,No […]
Always Here
The tempest rages, fierce and wild,A storm within, untamed, defiled.Thoughts collide like waves at war,Endless echoes, evermore. The weight of worlds upon my chest,No peace, no pause, no place to rest.Yet in the distance, soft and bright,You stand—a beacon, bathed in light. Not mine to hold, not mine to claim,You walk a path that bears […]