How to Kill a Fire A consuming flame tears apart both parchment and people, bottomless in its hunger. Even a force of nature can be quenched no matter the power it wields.

1 Paper Bars It has been long since I last put pencil to paper. To explore what happened to the walls of a heart shaped prison after so many years.

Seen In Blades We revere the hero, honor their days. Condemn their villains to darkness, curse their names. Who draws that line, separates the damned from the holy.

A New Ending So many stories have been written with no chance to change the ending. Can blood washed bindings ever change if the end is known.

1 Mysteries in the Mist One tells the tail of mysteries like monsters in the waning light.

3 You Alone A set of footprints walking alone.

Artemis Apollo stepped down from his peak, green mist that frames his time, one a story of carnage, another a simple reflection.

Passage Written as part of a 55 word fiction contest, the story of a architectural terror.

1 Roulette A game of Roulette, five barrels, spinning, spinning. No sweat from their brows, no offering to Poseidon.

3 Ordinary Ordinary, a man's journey through life told through eyes blurred by sand and longing. Roars from the skies drown out the light. This poem is written in sentences incrementally getting larger by a size of one word, then decreasing the same way.