I had a headache again. Not the obvious kind that you can dismiss with a glass of water and a chalky-white pill, but the kind you get when you haven't gotten enough sleep for weeks. When you haven't written anything good for longer. When everything around you seems useless and futile and t...
Chapter 1 – East Wall
"I'm sorry I dragged you into all this," I say quietly, scuffing my feet on the frozen cement in a futile attempt to stamp out the cold. A few tiny pieces of ice pounce off the catwalk and vanish into the winter darkness below; the rifle strap digs into my s...
The train began to slow. Dark silhouettes of trees, hills, having rushed by my window for more than two hours, finally slowed and came to a gradual halt before a backdrop of distant stars. A yellow lamp-lit platform slid into view and stayed there. As the train rocked gently into a stop, I stood ...
Turned upon me in the night,
Treachery before the light,
Cold as steel, sharp as blade, a
final farewell I was bade
But for the strength of my will, could
not avert the final kill
As it was, a close escape- to
bide my time and… wait
For the end must come
To die must either one
Murderer...
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