Cian The night cloaked us in a moonlit chill as I sped down the cherry-petalled boulevard. Crisp, spring air filled my car when Kael rolled down his window. His second-last…
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In the year of 2024, loving has never been easier! Finding a new lover is right at your fingertips with social media and dating apps available at your service. But…
It’s that time of the year again—the time when red lanterns adorn the streets, lively music is blasted from speakers, and lion dance troupes grace various venues with their performances,…
When I was young, young enough for the Internet to have solidified itself into something worth taking up space in our lives and before its unfortunate evolution into a machine…
Henry Vaughan placed his two cents on the subject of childhood and penned a wistful melody of the loss of heavenly innocence and the burning desire to regain it once…
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Trigger Warning: Gore, Animal Death, Implied / Referenced Cannibalism Outside, thunder rapped against the steel frame of the windows. Emmanuel sat, and watched the rain streak tears against the flat…
Prologue The “I Volunteer as Tribute’ scene from The Hunger Games With the conclusion of the beloved Harry Potter film franchise in 2011 and the bittersweet finale of the Twilight…
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