Heartbreak is often seen as a destructive force which is for a very good reason. It's usually something that is avoided, resisted, or quickly moved on from. For most people, it represents the ... [+]
It only happens once a year. When the moon glows gold in the pockets of cotton weighing down the night sky and the breath joins the clouds in puffs of white. When somehow you see warmth and feel ... [+]
I don't mean a calendrical blue moon, I mean it literally looked like it got dunked in some paint. And I don't know if it was the light pollution or what, but it was also glowing. I'd have snapped a ... [+]
The monotonous beeping and hum of machines kept me awake all night. The intense sterile smell stung my nose, air stale with the scent of sickness and death. Longing for company, I turned to stare at ... [+]
Once in a blue moon, I become an insomniac. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say: I become an insom-maniac. They say that the mind never rests, even when you are asleep. The way I imagine how ... [+]
My friend's old Casio G-Shock was set on military time. He looked and it spoke to him. "00:00" Casio warned him perfunctorily. It was a new day. Casio was my friend's most prized possession. It ... [+]
The air is apple crisp this October night. Clear and moonlit starry skies evoke a sense of occult magic in the mystery traditions of old as I await your arrival like a righteous adept. A ... [+]
Daniel darted his eyes around, trying to soak up the last of his current vision. It's hard to try to remember something when you don't know what you'll miss yet, he thought. The excitement was ... [+]
Dearest and Most Beloved Gerard, By the time you read this, the forces of time and space and irresponsible alchemical meddling will have taken me. I hope this letter finds you comparatively well ... [+]
The house was dark. The air was cool. The air conditioner hummed in a soft timbre. The only source of light was the blue moon, illuminating through the window and onto my face. I couldn't help but ... [+]
There was a kind of silence in the room, not the chilly silence of loneliness, but rather the warm, reassuring silence of reflection. He glanced at the screen of his phone, the last words he had ... [+]
CRASH! SLAM! BANG! Sounds of a screen door swinging in the wind as the hole whispers sweet nothings in the crisp air. Adrian is awakened out of her sleep by a monster, wearing heels with red ... [+]
We meet in what feels like once in a blue moon, just like all long-distance couples do. Most of them said it gets easier with time, absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that. Doesn't it ... [+]
It transpired in an instant—imperceptible to the senses but profound in consequence. One moment, the Earth revolved as it always had, immersed in the ceaseless tumult of human endeavour, each ... [+]
Take a day trip into the mountains, they said. Become one with nature, they said. Well, nature was not on these teens' side right now. The four watched as the fuel gauge in their van was slowly but ... [+]
The Rossark family landed in Cirrus under a sheet of white. As they exited the plane, the mother's knockoff sneakers slapped against the polished concrete floor as she chided her two children to ... [+]
From the window of a somewhat empty bus, on a Friday afternoon, on a highly paved avenue in São Paulo, Brazil: I see two little girls in a rush, running in between the cars stuck in traffic. They ... [+]
He found me, seated in the courtyard that night, sorely different from my usual self. The idea was that we'd never sat, not in such silence, such profound stillness, against the mosquitoes and the ... [+]
