Regaining Lost Aspects: Mind and Soul
Through book events, poetry, and creativity, we dive a little deeper into humanity.
Love ached.
It tore.
It burned.
It took every piece of me and never gave it back.
Lost and withered,
my soul searched for something.
Anything to let it breathe.
At least one more time.
I need to feel something.
Anything.
I need to know you again.
Let me become your nebula
Let me atomize the love that’s me
Let me fill your head with wonder
A clouded future, a lock and key
Let me open myself up to you
Let me paint your dark profound
I promise if I’m given freedom
My true self will be unbound
The closure of my heart took work.
Many said I shouldn’t do it.
That being numb would be a shame and a sin.
But here I am.
Still able to care. To help. To now see things more clearly.
Like how closing my heart helped me escape you.
I would rather live in perseverance.
Not caged in a false and painful love.
You are my everything
From cloud cover on a burning hot day
To shelter from a devastating storm
You are my only
You are my lover
You are my happy tears
I need a break
A break from being exhausted
Hurt
And sad
A moment from being mind-drunk
Paralyzed
And mad
Angry at how life got me
How it treated me for show
I only need a moment
To keep going
To keep afloat
“Father’s Odd Requests” started as a writing prompt that wanted the beginning of a story to start with a father’s two requests. When working with this prompt, I let my mind run wild, which was fun. I thought to myself, what are two very odd requests that a dead father could have (because I like things a little dark), and then built my story around that. I love how it opened a whole creepy, whimsical world filled with mystery and how that world helps begin the journey for a son who was never close to his father.
“Father’s Odd Requests” is about a son and a daughter who set out to fulfill their father’s odd requests, which are finding a certain “Ice Blue” cotton candy to put at his grave along with a coin that he always carried in his ankle. After that, they are supposed to videotape what happens to show their mother.
This truly amazing artwork with so much detail was done by Eli Cuaycong. I really can’t believe how he was able to bring this story to life with just one scene. It’s one of my favorite art pieces, and I am so excited to have it up on our wall when we move in the near future.
My plan and hope is to expand on this story that takes place in The Kasverse. I truly cannot wait to watch James grow and uncover his father’s secrets.
If you want to read this story about a son’s connection with a father who has passed, feel free to click below.
A weaver of light
Calls to the stars
Taking their essence one by one.
Cradling them,
She braids them to yarn,
Offering it to only the royal ones.
Listing by name
The gifts are each set
Bound to the lives of most fit.
But if they blink out,
Each royals’ dress,
Their life will forever be forfeit.
“Whispers of the First Witch” is a short story about a girl who has lost her mom and follows the whispers that took her mother to hopefully find her again. It was a fun story to write and even more fun to work with Eli Cuaycong on this art piece to bring out the creepy factor of the story.
How this story came to be was with a picture prompt about a year ago! The picture we were given was of a piece of playground equipment called the witch’s hat. You can see that piece of equipment behind the creature. When I began to write the story, my mind took me back to when I was a child, and how we had the same equipment in our small town. I loved playing on it and used to imagine it taking me to other places when I would spin with it, especially at night.
In the story itself, the daughter sees her mother as she was before but does notice that her mother seems slightly different. For this art piece, we brought out what the mother really looks like inside as she is trying to coax her daughter to come to her with whispers.
This story takes place in The Kasverse and has strong ties to Wyreli, which will be visited in later stories and is where all of civilization, demons, witches, and the world truly started.
If you want to read this short story, you can click below to be taken to its page on my website.
Happy spooky reading!!
There is beauty in parallel horizons, especially when they kiss over the calm, tranquil waters meeting the moon.
This is concept art by Julija Gumbryte for my short story “Oceana Estate,” which is a small spooky story written in lyrical-like prose. This story started when I was doing a group where we were given a prompt and only a couple minutes to write a quick story with it. I believe the prompt was “last house on the left.”
I enjoyed writing this short piece and also enjoyed working with Julija. It was her idea to bring the houses closer to the character.
If you would like to read the short story, all you have to do is click on the picture, and you will be taken to the page we have set up for this special short story.
Thank you everyone for everything.
Regaining Lost Aspects: Mind and Soul 