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city of a million shards
Tooth swings his legs in the city lights. A pixellated ad flutters across the windows. Beneath him, the roads roar by: one city, two cities—every city in the world is here, mirrored in a hundred skyscrapers. From up here, one can see the strait that splits the downtown from the peninsula. This is Berlian—all of…
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Compass
Originally published on FanFiction.net, and then here on my website. It has now been adapted into an interactive comic. As I fall through the fog between sleeping and waking, I begin to forget. Flashes of red. A shower of water and glass. Rainbows and dying lamp wicks. Where was I? Where am I now? Something’s…
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Tree of Life
I existed in the shadow of history, when the stars were cold and learning to breathe. I existed in a scattering of plans, a flickering behind a nebula. I remember, within the slants and bends of my branches, the scattering of photons, the accretion of matter, and the moulding of planets. I remember something of…
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Welcome to my Utopia!
This story won the Silver award at the 2010 Royal Commonwealth Society Essay Competition. It was written to the theme “Welcome to my Utopia!” I remember battling with the 1,750 word limit. 12th June 2198 I know I deceive myself in writing this. Just as the stone towers around me have crumbled to dust, this…
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Home
He still remembers the days when he called loneliness peace. Cherry-red pond side days, dull and flat like the stones he so often tossed at the water to smash the clouds below, petals spread like spilt blood on the banks. Pale cream dawn days, like the light that sat on the gliding swans’ wings, as they…
