The Vow

Reader, I implore your forgiveness for the crime I must detail. What I have done was not of my own choice, for had it been so I would have bled dry my throat before even the slightest urge to commit such an act overcame me. Circumstances, such as they were, forced my hand, and shouldContinue reading “The Vow”

What Became Of My Dear Sister

Justice, my sister, ran away from home when she was eighteen years of age, or so for many years I thought. My parents were vague on the cause of her disappearance, and all matters pertaining to my sibling, come to that. “A saint,” was all my father would say of her. “She was a saintContinue reading “What Became Of My Dear Sister”

The Tower

The dark girl in the black coat walked to a disused railway bridge by night. Her eyes were as her clothes—the sky—were, and her nails were lacquered with the red that they would soon be from other matter. A man awaited her, his white hair blown up into the wind like a waterfall in reverse.Continue reading “The Tower”