She told her secrets to silence. Years later, silence answered — through everyone else’s laughter, tears, and songs.
By GoldenSpeech3 months ago in Chapters
The stone achieved immortality, but cried for the beauty of things that end.
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By Matthew J. Fromm3 months ago in Chapters
A bird hatches on the ground and believes the sky is myth. When it finally flies, it weeps — not for the sky, but for all the wings that never tried.
When he dies, dreams fade to gray.
When silence came, no one drowned again.
When it stopped, stars began to fall apart.
Lovers age only when they leave.
A man follows echoes of lives once lived.
At the edge of the cosmos, where galaxies bloomed like flowers, lived an old man who tended to the stars. He carried a silver key and a satchel full of constellations that had stopped shining.
Every autumn, the wind in Valehaven carried scraps of paper through the streets. No one knew where they came from. Some were love letters, others goodbyes, others pleas.
After the war, a botanist named Ada bought a ruined estate on the outskirts of town. The garden was wild, overgrown — yet every flower was in bloom, even in winter.