When the world is heavy and it gets too loud behind my eyes, I like to escape by taking a flight of fancy. Maybe I'll dance with a troupe of marionettes through the streets of Prague. Climb onto the back of a paper napkin that folds itself into a bird and soars over Paris. Swim [...]
The memory of that taste was the only happy thing he had left. The tang, the mellow creaminess. He remembered his mother standing at the makeshift worktop in their sparse kitchenette; he remembered the cracked, red fingers of her gentle hands unwrapping the wax paper as though she were opening a parcel of the finest [...]
The first time she had stood, unnoticed, on the street corner, the city had barely been a hamlet. Now the rush and bustle of a metropolis surrounded her: the neon lights and constant hubbub buzzing like flies in the periphery of her vision. She had stood on this spot on the same day each year [...]
When she was a little girl, her mother told her stories of dragons who lay hidden in deep caves guarding mounds of treasure. One ordinary Tuesday, she set off to find one. It did not take long, for her mother had taught her well what to look for, and she soon found a crack in [...]
A gentle breeze rustling through the grasses and the distant shushing of waves on the beach were the only things to disturb the perfect quiet. She meandered along the winding path down to the coast, trailing her fingers through the waving fronds that edged the sandy trail and closed her eyes, breathing deep the [...]
When she woke, it was gone. Everything else was in its rightful place: watch laid out on the bedside table, its gentle tick having lulled her to sleep hours before; earrings placed carefully side by side, hooks aligned so as not to become entangled with the copper filigree leaves that hung below; bracelet creating an [...]
Thrive In Chaos 