“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson My father told me of a time when activists fought for the right to speak their minds. Now, we’d be lucky to have a mind of our own at all. The technology started on our desks, and it brought …
Imagine if one day you were given a choice: become immortal and indestructible for eternity, unable to be harmed by anything ever again and get to live forever. However, in order to achieve that you must give up your purpose in life. Whatever it is that you were always meant to do, what you were …
The deepest grey clouds filled the sky with crimson red blossoming through it. The once flowing river sat alone and dry. Towering around me were the once bustling skyscrapers still trying to reach the heavens and beyond. A lonely figure meandered through its maze aimlessly while movement began to cut them off. The whirring of …
There is no such thing as order. Chronological… Time isn’t an illusion, rather an invention of the Gods made to keep lesser beings under their control. In check. Afraid. You arrange things in an ‘order’ that you believe makes sense. Dates, times and days. Of all the numbers for a year, why choose 365? Don’t …
My alarm was blaring. As I shut it off, I was grateful for another day of life. I dragged myself downstairs to observe the sacrifice on the TV. My dad was already sitting there and my little sister Addeline was still in bed as my dad didn’t want her watching. Occasionally, I spot her out …
They’re going to kill me. A flourish of feathers tells me that it has landed in front of me. A red eye stares into my soul. It’s much larger than it should be, according to my mother. Its sharp, curved beach and long, curling talons are covered in blood. They look like knives from a …
I woke up and it was rainy outside, Listening to all the rules we were forced to abide. Another day felt like a year to conquer. Was this all going to go on for much longer? One walk a day, that’s all they would say. Zoom Calling for school, it really was not cool. The …
Prologue Our World began the day the old one was destroyed. One of peace and civilisation instead replaced with war and isolation. This was nearly 13 years ago. I was born during the first year of war and still now when I am standing here alone the fighting continues. As I began the tenuous and …
I pulled my heavy bag onto my shoulders, and let my friend, Beatrice, start setting up the camera around my neck. We both knew what I might not return. Everyday until today, Beatrice and my family had tried to persuade me not to go. I could tell by Beatrice’s frown as she fiddled with the …
A man hurried down a crowded thoroughfare, navigating the ocean of scrambling, screaming,swarming people. A sharp black suit cutting through the masses like a shark fin in crowded waters, not concerned with the smaller, panicked fish that swarmed by. He stopped at the crossroads. By the road, a little boy was crying. Of course. Everyone …
