Cycle
Kind girls don’t get rescued. They wait. They adjust. They learn how to be small so no one has to deal with them. She couldn’t make love stay. Men came. They admired her mind. They wanted her body. They loved…
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Kairos
What just happened? What was this feeling I felt? Why am I breathing shallowly? What was I just thinking? Was I thinking at all? What was this feeling? Was it peace? Was I a baby again? Did this endless battle…
All Roads
Kevalina was born during peak summer, gasping before she even had a name. Her umbilical cord choked her and her mother had an emergency caesarean to save her. Born too soon, too fragile, but somehow radiant. She was a tender…
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Power did not follow bloodlines. It arrived like a secret storm -random, merciless, and indifferent. Most children awakened to it between 13 and 14: a sudden levitation, an object shattering mid-air, a shadow bending against the light. Some could summon…
Erase Her
Oliver sat beside her, perfectly still. He knew what would happen. Kevalina was ready for it. He looked at her with something she almost believed was love. “Oliver,” she whispered, tears slipping into wrinkles, “Thank you.” A pause. “I love…
Bewitched
The forest pulsed with life. The canopy swayed to the rhythm of the wind, playing games of light and shadow with the sun. Birds sang in melodies never quite the same, their notes woven with the rustling of leaves. Canopies…
A Soul for your Sins
Oliver was a middle-class man. Not wealthy. Not poor. But comfortably in-between and content with it. He didn’t chase riches or fame. He chased peace. Simplicity. The kind of life where your phone buzzes from your mum asking to bring…
Mended
She hadn’t eaten in three days. The air in her room was stale, thick with the smell of unwashed sheets and perfume she no longer wore. Her pillow was still wet from all the tears she’d cried. Her phone was…
While I Sleep
The room was cold. The stinging smell of bleach clung to the absence of blood on the floor, the scene scrubbed clean. But the chill came from something else. Something wrong. Detective Eva Jaw pulled on her gloves, crouched next…
Moral Dilemma
Kevalina had laughed when she signed the terms and conditions. “You may be asked to make a choice.” What kind of weird clause was that for a clothing store receipt? Still, the dress was too perfect to pass up. An…