The sea stretches out before you to an unbroken horizon. The sun is out, but you sit in the shade of the umbrella. It’s midday, too hot to sit outside without sitting under a cover. The shade is just right – warm enough to relax your muscles but not intense you can feel your skin … More Place of Peace (Stories on a Theme – “Sea”)
Tegan tried to hold the tears in as she tapped away on her screen. She could feel her cheeks flush and the humiliation rising. “Hey, Tegan,” Jasmine asked, “how’s that project going?” “Fine,” Tegan croaked. She had to hold her composure. She couldn’t show it was too much. She couldn’t. First posted in 2019. || Image Credit: … More Composure – (From the Archives)
Enough – What does it mean to just be? (Genre – General, Genre – Introspective, Rating: PG) To be is enough. To breathe is enough. To smile is enough. Enough sometimes feels like it is a level to achieve. Enough sometimes feels like a pause before the storm. Or before the success. Enough is to go … More Enough – (From the Archives)
First posted in 2019. || Image Credit: Photo by Alice Hampson on Unsplash “It is done,” Relen announced across the silent room. He put the pen down on the tablet as he watched his signature flash into the stone surface which lay below it. It was only in stone that an accord like this could be signed. Stone couldn’t be … More Flash Fiction – Accord (From the Archives)
It’s a feeling, deep within your bones. A light feeling. One that lifts your soul up, keeping your chin up and your eyes open. You have to smile, as you hear the birds singing and the wind whispering in the trees. You let the feeling flow through your soul and seep out of your skin, … More Flash Fiction – Joyful (Stories on a Theme – “Peace”)
No is such a hard word to say when all you want is peace. You want to smooth over things. To make it better. But this is a line. And you have to say no. (but your voice choaks up when you do, and you wish you would die).
Xeen remembered those days, before all this. Before the power started going. Before the food began running out. Before before. A time when he would run in the street with his friends, scales glinting in the suns double glare. When he would be accepted into the world. When he was part of the community. He … More Flash Fiction – Halcyon (Stories on a Theme – “Peace”)
When you work with someone, it’s like your soul sings a tune that only theirs can harmonise. It’s not just liking the same thing or wanting the same things out of life. It’s a partnership, a shared existence that is only better because you are two separate wholes coming to it. You exist in harmony. … More Flash Fiction – Harmony (Stories on a Theme – “Peace”)
Tegan tried to hold the tears in as she tapped away on her screen. She could feel her cheeks flush and the humiliation rising. “Hey, Tegan,” Jasmine asked, “how’s that project going?” “Fine,” Tegan croaked. She had to hold her composure. She couldn’t show it was too much. She couldn’t.
“It is done,” Relen announced across the silent room. He put the pen down on the tablet as he watched his signature flash into the stone surface which lay below it. It was only in stone that an accord like this could be signed. Stone couldn’t be changed. Stone was constant. “Good,” Helno said, her … More Flash Fiction – Accord (Stories on a Theme – “Peace”)
Alex.J.Cobalt 