Her whispers made my ears hurt. I turned over, throwing an arm over the woman who shared my bed. She turned over too, a soft smile gracing her sleeping face, just as I remembered, just like the first time I met her.  The sleepiness subsided as my vision focused on the girl in front of me; it wasn’t HER. The woman in front of me didn’t have the same bright sparkle as her, didn’t have the eyes that saw through to my soul when I first met her, and didn’t have the same expressive face when she...

We stood amongst the graves on the summer's day  looking at one another  In silence  In stillness As the dead watched us and the words that remained unsaid Maybe it was the way the sun laid  effortlessly across your face that I fell into your embrace  with arms so strong  and hands so soft You took my heart  and wrapped it in cloth  The name I called out longingly which tasted so sweet begrudgingly fell numb and cold  As I tried to call your name  no longer felt the same  no other name or...

The hoard moved in unison down the long road. Every bone sang each time they took a slow step forward. I snuck out of bed every night to watch the skeleton army from the small window. They never looked up, they never said a word, but they patrolled the city all the same.  I asked everyone at school if they had ever seen the skeleton army, but I was the only one. I drew them every chance I had at school, hoping that at some point, Miss Bailey or Mum would believe me.   When I told mum about...