— William Shakespeare, Othello IN VENICE, ITALY, beneath the majesty of Saint Mark's Basilica, stood a door to another world. Carved by magic from gold and ebony, it depicted creatures of splendor with wings made of light fighting the demons of hell. Through the door, ...
She shook from unshed tears, smiling despite her pain as we watched Curtis waste away before our eyes. Sam, Drake and Father Patrick stood on the other side of his bed as Dr. Susie checked his vital signs and kept an IV going. She looked up, her soothing energy settling us...
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth I’D COME HERE alone last time and with very different intentions. I’d procured the sphere to help the witches defeat the Druids. Now I sought to help the Druids defeat Rainbow and Bankun. The beautiful soul next to me could be blamed for the radical departure fr...
Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. —William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Dear Diary, Visions of soulless eyes haunt me while I sleep. Memories of the same haunt me while awake. I cannot escape the evil I have done, albeit unintentional. Whether intend...
Every minute in the hospital had felt like torture. They'd tell me to rest, but would wake me up every few hours to give me medication. The medication would make my mind fuzzy, and my thoughts would drift as exhaustion and stress pulled me into a disturbed sleep filled with too many dreams. ...
Sometimes, it is too late. The coven's magic weighed heavy in me, like eating a dinner that sat wrong in your stomach, but it did its job and kept me hidden from the Druids by masking my scent, hiding the coven's magical signature and cloaking me in darkness so that their ...