TheBrightPearl

The room was starting to get lighter, a grey drizzly dawn after a horrible, painful night. It would have been nice to have a pink, blue...

The winter silence crept under her skin burrowing deep like a mole into the dark depths. In the silence she felt her voice, her name and...

Circe’s mind was in great turmoil, pictures in lurid colours swam up from the depths. As she struggled to find her balance, her mind like...

Festival time was a wonderful time. There was a feeling of magic in the streets with all the jugglers, jongleurs, musicians, acrobats,...

As children we played in the magic garden unaware of the power that was held in the blossoms, plants and trees. The garden loaned itself...

The Oracle “Next” called the receptionist as the number 31 flashed above her head. I looked at the 31 stamped on the back of my hand and...

Sound created a concussion in the air, metal on metal; I sat staring blankly out from the dais as the crashing clash hit me again. The...

Life and death two sides of being all spirits move between. The spiral of life each turn takes us through periods of darkness and periods...

All around me was bedlam. People shouting, children screaming, loud crashing sounds, it all echoed inside my head. I frantically looked...

My favourite time is when darkness falls over the land that is the time I am able to leave my shelter and roam. Most of the villagers...

I was so excited to be chosen to be a member of the Lunar Colony. Mars Colony had been settled ten years ago and after three launches of...

One of the problems in the world today is the willful blindness people exhibit. Take fairies for example, all around are images of...

There is a place beyond daylight on the edge of a dark sea where dreams rise up into existence. These dreams in themselves are harmless...

I called myself Amara Aurantia, with help I reinvented myself after my life spiralled down into a dark, dark hole. I felt kinship to the...

There was something special about the garden chair. It sat underneath the tree, alone. Weathered by turning of seasons and lack of care...

You know those dreams you have of standing in front of a large group of people naked. I don’t have those dreams. I often felt a little...

Death held no fear for me I was used to the moment when life slipped away. When silence deepened and resounded through space and what...

Time Stopped We didn’t know the world as we knew it was going to end. That our easy, everyday living was going to become so very...

It was a harsh landscape with the bony spine of the world breaking through the dirt. I stumbled falling to my knees, sharp rock sliced...

Pension Day I sat hunched over in the waiting room, my eyes down; I didn’t want to make eye contact with anyone in that room. My eyes...