My sister has always been an angel. Her skin was dark and blemish free, the color of the smoothest blend of chocolate. Her legs were long and firm, soft as a leafling. My eyes were a deep brown, darker than my own and sharp like a knife’s edge glinting in the firelight. Our parents were […]
I awaken from the depths of my slumber. Pitiful and scorned, in a world lonely and torn. My eyes peel open, hit by the blinding lights, Of grey ash and embers of a dying fire. Dark skin of mine caked in grey and white. This ash a plague on my mortal soul. It fell all […]
The last dregs of the night’s sweet tobacco hung heavy over the district’s visitors like the cloudy gray veil artistes used to obscure their faces, luring their prey with kohl-lined eyes. Men from all walks of life could be seen scurrying about the streets of Sanguine Boulevard; old men with graying beards and stout bellies […]