(The Prophet) There’s work to be done in this world, but it’s not work for boys or girls. Where once there were people of a great and mighty nation, Now all I see is a slave generation. A Slave Generation. Slave to your phone, to the drugs you rejoice, slave to the music, it’s all your choice.   (The Populace) But I don’t need work done in my world, Work isn’t needed for boys or girls, Where once there were people of mora...

At last I am free but I must wait just a little while longer. These aged walls no longer hold me and yet I cannot shake off these earthly shackles until my soul is absolved. They don't know my name, no-one ever did, Uncle made sure of that, but now my bones are laid to rest in the grounds of the old house and my soul is free. As I look down on the handful of witnesses, nine words are all I need as the blessed water splash...

It was your nature. Walking to the edge. Lifting your foot into temptation. Always pulling back at the last minute. This time was different. Stepping forward instead of back. The rush of excitement. The exhilaration of taking a chance. Too late the danger recognized. Falling. Unable to halt the descent. The darkness swallowing you. Tumbling into the endless blackness. Completely vulnerable. Helpless. All hope lost. The mi...

The love we let subside, the fear we try to so hard to hide, the hopes we dare not speak, and the nightmares we keep alive   Whether it's depression's blight, jealousy's sabotaging bite, or simple resentment and spite, all act as condemnations for the self   A host of symptoms that serve to bind, we give into loneliness and despair, pop the pills we are prescribed, or simply pretend that we're alright   We cower behind wh...

Inexorably I can feel myself falling Into the darkness that always lurks, sinister And out of sight, there at the corner of my mind, A place of demons and unnameable horrors, Where my worst nightmares wait, eager to claim my soul. Like a condemned man on the way to the scaffold, I see the leering faces of the mocking crowd Calling on me to save myself, their jeering taunts The accompaniment to my headlong descent Into mad...

The moment I saw her that autumn afternoon, I knew that I just had to have her. Sitting quietly in the shadows of the empty library, lit only by the lambent warmth of the reading lamp over the desk, her demure beauty ignited a fire in my soul that had been dormant for many centuries, and I knew that I must take her life force and make it my own.ooOooI was born long before the present day in a small town in what is now Rum...

Every time that I'm aloneI can’t take it!My mind is screamingNow that I stand hereTorn up thoughts like scraps of paperI can't do thisI am suffocatingSave me, I'm asking won't you please save me?I have been lost so long I feel cast away at seaNow my thoughts they swim, my mind sinkingI need you to please,Need you toSave me...I'll try and surface from the brutal painWill pushing it all down just be in vain?Negotiate with p...

Chapter 7 The Brown Cloak “You what?!” Thunders Mevild. “It just took really long, so he just came in… I sent him to get a book back from another teacher…” Mumbles Dot, who just can’t lie. I don’t even know which lie can possibly save us now? “Yes, it’s true… But father, I got lost on the way and… I met this beautiful girl. So I spent time with her. She was so sweet and lovely…” Both Mevild and Dot open their mouths and l...

Words slice like a double-edged knife; my heart cannot endure So watch me bleed, tainted blood pouring from my soul I tried to save you, but it was all in vain You cut me down, to ease your own pain  Now here I stand, wounded, broken and alone… Here I stand, yearning, bleeding; I've come undone…  Broken mirror on the wall, watches me tumble as I fall Refracted light blinding me to a truth that's buried deepA shattered ref...

A metallic voice spoke. “Welcome user GR8N3557083…” She pressed the small hexagonal jack into the shadow blue hole in the left side of her head. Although the hole was coated in thick alloy, the moistness rang in her ear as her skull was penetrated. A shudder ran down her spine, spreading out along her limbs like iced electricity seeking somewhere to ground. Leaning back onto the worn faux leather table, its top half raise...