Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?
Pirates have always fascinated me.
When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.