by meaton7584 | Jul 14, 2025 | Short Stories
Hold your head, shake the sleep from your eyes. The clock reads 6:30. Don’t lay down, it will only make it harder The cold is painful, but it is necessary. Get up, walk away from temptation. Down to the bathroom. Cold water only, splash your face and blot it...
by meaton7584 | Jul 14, 2025 | Poetry, Short Stories
A heavy hand fell on her shoulder, and Amaris turned at the touch, her curtain of midnight tresses parting down the center to reveal a haunting pair of crystal eyes, glimmering like diamonds in the candlelight; it was Sleep, her nemesis. Though she fought his gentle...
by meaton7584 | Jul 3, 2025 | Short Stories
Awaiting my order, I looked up from my phone, temporarily distracted by a girl who had just come into the store. With short blond hair and stargirl bangs, she was quite pretty. However, what truly caught my attention was her top—it was a fitted, babydoll...
by meaton7584 | Jun 1, 2025 | Short Stories
A lone man, shrouded in darkness, limps down an abandoned shoreline, his breath hindered and face plaster-white. A cold wind rolls in from the sea, and he turns his face towards the water. Then he sees it; at first, he thinks it a trick of the light, but upon a second...
by meaton7584 | Apr 3, 2025 | Short Stories
Remember. Please, I only ask for this. Let me remember. Blue. Above her, the long night rolls forth, a deep, tempest blue. In a pool of moonlight, smooth and soft as silk, she stands, perched upon the edge of a shoddy wooden dock, her face tilted to...
by meaton7584 | Nov 11, 2024 | Short Stories
Black smoke billowed from the seventeenth window on the second side. Inside, an orange glow flickered softly, bathing the interior in a wash of flame. In the firelight, there stood a man. A fireman, his shadow stretched long. A second shadow sprung across the...
