Jade’s Springtime Chairtie
The front door shut and I listened to her footsteps fade down the porch steps, across the path, and then […]
The front door shut and I listened to her footsteps fade down the porch steps, across the path, and then […]
Under the bright midday sun the bamboo forest steamed with the trapped heat of the recent rain. Tall glossy stalks
The cold was the first thing that registered, a deep, wet chill that seemed to rise from the ancient flagstones
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Lexi woke in fragments, with no clean line between sleeping and consciousness, only a slow crawl upward through cold, noise,
The first thing I knew was the cold. It bit into me, deep and punishing, the kind of cold I
I woke up sitting on the smooth ice floor, legs folded in front of me, ankles already bound tight together
The fluorescent light buzzed overhead like a dying insect, a constant drone that drilled into my skull almost as much
I pull at the ropes around my wrists, the hemp biting into my skin as I wrench my arms in
The villagers dragged Elsa down onto the thick blue mat in the center of her private training gym. Rope looped