I Up the mountain Brown grasses rustle at my feet Until they bend beneath the lusciousness of snow I meet her at the temple We are not at the peak And the waterfall beneath us is frozen I am sorry, love, that I made you […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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I could smell her body from across the raging waters: her fearful heart pumping rich sweet blood; the bitter odour of a delicate sweat; the tangy iron of the manacles that held her, with its creeping rust and the way it stank of the anger of those who had shackled […]
“Kneel.” The Empress on her cut-crystal throne was as lithe as the golden snake armrests. Coll knelt instantly before her. A shiver rippled over his nearly-naked body. He had come a hundred miles to serve her; he had bested bravos in her arena; he had composed a song in her […]
~ Block by block, up the tower, hand over hand, his hands are on the stones. Toes nosing into footholds, and his muscles ache nicely with the push and pull of the climb. There is a slice of moon over the tower like a satisfied grin, like the satisfaction he’s […]