of Stardust and the Beasts
Poetry, prose, stories, and other creative writing experiments.
Six Sentence Story #19 | Prompt Word: SIGNAL
Hello everyone! Another week has passed, and it’s time to share my six-sentence story for the lovely blog hop hosted by GirlieOnTheEdge . I absolutely love this community and the challenge of having only six sentences while also incorporating a prompt word! Musically, Return to Earth by The Contortionist is playing—one of my favorite songs and bands… You can find links to other participants’ work through the link-up . Six Sentence Story #19 Elise was in the garden, tending the red geraniums, when she heard the sirens and the sky turned black; even the chirping birds were replaced by vultures circling overhead as if waiting for something. After the initial shock, she ran toward her childhood home—one she hadn’t visited in years—only to discover the door had rusted in place,…
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Poetry On the margins of the First Draft #6 | a Prayer
This piece from Margins of the First Draft makes me think I wrote better poetry in my teens than I write now. (Authors Note) a Prayer Here I lay In the darkness of my room Praying to all the Gods that I know That someday, Somewhere, Someway We can meet each other And have conversations drunken on wine Poetry on the Margins #6 If There’s a Next Life If this one is not enough…I hope to share one another in a waythat goes beyond great sex.It feels moreintimate. But… I do hope we would have a lot ofdrunken nights on wine and walking hand in hand on a dark avenue.And when I get tired, I’d just plop my head down on your shoulder, and thenyou’d smile and stroke my hair or kiss my forehead.And…
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Short Story | Goddess in Disguise
Ella didn’t know any other way to love than obsessively, religiously, and with a fiery passion. The kind that could make you shiver when her fingers brushed against your skin. And she would pray down on her knees to twirl you around her finger, to make you stay longer than you anticipated, and to give you a little more love in the hope that you would return it. To her, there were no limitations. She would give away her skin if a man she loved needed it. You could say that every man that ever laid his hands on her was a God she had to worship to reach the pearly gates.
Short Story | Demigods are Worshipped in Wine
This night was like many others. She was preparing her space to write poetry. It was as if she was preparing to worship a God of a sort – with a bottle of Shiraz on the table and Chopin on the recorder, she set orange and cinnamon-scented candles up in her room.
Short Story | Stockholm Syndrome
It wasn’t that she didn’t know that he wasn’t good for her or that he would never stay the night. It was that she had hope. She believed that in the depths of his heart, he had loved her all along, and one day he would choose her. The hope kept her eyes in a protective pink film every time she looked at his face. And all she wished for was to lay in his arms and to wake up to him stroking her hair.
Short Story | Elves and Fantasy
He sat across from her on the train he took every day to work and back. Never had he seen her before, and there was nothing else that he could do than sit there, staring at her drawing while being perplexed by her beauty. He himself had never drawn before, or maybe he did when he was still in kindergarten and just forgot how much he enjoyed it.
Short Story | Melody Behind Her Voice
In this moment, he couldn’t understand how the melody in her voice could have disappeared. He sat on the edge of her bed and realized that time, it had been cruel to her. It seemed as if it were just yesterday that they walked hand in hand on the riverbank, her golden locks flying in the wind and the scent of strawberries lingering in the air around her. He had never known he liked strawberries until he met her.