Far Off Unhappy Things: Boys and Girls of the Reflective Age Chapter 4: Idle Days By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg I see her walking downDown the endless streetA human form of nightA walking beautyI see the shine of her cold, cold eyesEnlightens the darkest souls and the darkest minds – E. E. Cummings Light as bright as the eiderdown pillow was soft awoke Fleur with a jolt. Through wide open windows it poured in like an…
Far Off Unhappy Things: Solitary Reaper Chapter 3: Achyls By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg and Septimian I. Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. – W. B. Yeats Achlys stirred in her sleep, too aware of the…
Far Off Unhappy Things: Boys and Girls of the Reflective Age Chapter 2: Fleur By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg Trapped in a prism, in a prism of lightAlone in the darkness, darkness of whiteWe fell in love, alone on a stageIn the reflective age – James Joyce Fleur measured her pills out on her hand one by one. Her unusual physiology meant she had to take a surprising amount before they worked. Five now, five later.…
Far Off Unhappy Things: Solitary ReaperChapter 1: Violet By Renko Chazakiël Rodenburg There is no wrath in the stars,They do not rage in the sky;I look from the evil woodAnd find myself wondering why. – Lord Dunsany She sat alone as she watched the sun set. Slowly it went from bright white to a more agreeable yellow, and then a smouldering red as in the distance it sank into the ocean beyond the world. Then…
Far Off Unhappy Things Chapter 24: Maxwellianistics By Maxwell This is an absence-story. A story defined by absences. A story about an empty house on Fisher’s Lane that ought to have had a father, brothers, servants and maids. Today, there are no such things in the house on Fisher’s Lane. Today I live there alone. Today, which is no longer every day the same day but now relentlessly gets replaced by one day after the…
Far Off Unhappy Things Chapter 24. Gunthilde has died, and wanders around for a bit.
Far Off Unhappy Things Chapter 24: The King and the Maxwellianist, or, The Princess and the Ghost, or, The King, The Princess and the Boy. By Tintenzunge By Maxwell By Tintenzunge Once upon a time in the distant land where it was always fall, the poet-king was visited by a stranger. “What?” The poet-king asked his guards. “A visitor?” “Yes, my liege. He says he has come from a distant land to pay homage to…