Lights off

The house was empty. The noise of the keys unlocking the front door echoed through the empty rooms.    The plastic over the furniture moved with the wind from a window barely open. Everything was inside the boxes and no lights except for a candle in the kitchen.    He walked in

Hypnosis

The dark room was illuminated by the flame from the lighter. The smoke came out of his mouth after the metallic click of the lighter left the room in darkness again.    A man lay on a couch in the middle of the room. He approached and lit two candles on

Message in the stars

A small lotus flower opened in her hand. The forest was dark but right there inside her hands, the flower was pure light.    She held it delicately as it glowed brighter and brighter as it opened.    After the flower bloomed she started drawing runes in the trees close by. The

Operation table

The shadow opened a zipper in the middle of its chest. With one hand in dark mud, he pulled a ball still beating and placed it on the table.    It picked up a couple of books to make sure the markings were right and started lighting candles in the corner

Growing wishes

She rollerbladed across the night sky avoiding planets and stars nearby.    With her speed, she would leave a trail behind, and as she ran she collected wishes thrown at her from the earth.    She could see the wishes fly out of the earth and slow down as they got to

Gametoyboy

She called again, really angry this time. It stopped working.    He stopped reacting to the posts and songs even as she watched and tried. His face didn't change or show emotion.    The husbandtestomatic 3000 was known for its issues after month six of testing.    She waited at the

Ripe fruit

She held a star in her hands. Carefully, she cracked it open and poured the light on a jar. With her hand on a glove, she grabbed the wish as it came out of the star and started to plant it.    She put it inside black dirt on an old

The running tab

She decided to use Voodoo magic. A made up doll wit the face of the picture she kept on her night stand.   Playing with things she didn't understand. There was a price, for every prick and pinch and the tab was on.   Dark magic keeps the score, and

Marble and flame

A candle and a book were on the dim-lit round table. She sat beside the table watching the light of the day move across the floor, drawing sharper lines as the day ended.    The candle lit up on its own when the light left the room. The room was quiet

Wishing well

Someone recognized her and walked up to the table where she sat drinking her tea. She smiled at the picture and went back to the conversation.    The lights around the street started to light up and the night like a cover started to move into the sky.    The stars, almost

The medic

A grenade fell into the trench, he grabbed it and threw it back screaming for everyone to take cover. Dirt flew covering everyone.    The medic was behind the rubble of a fallen house the enemy fire wouldn't stop and the medic was out of ammunition.    He grabbed a

in case of emergencies

He broke the glass with an elbow. The one in case of emergencies behind the painting pulled the lever and pushed the button.   An electric sound came from under the floor and the carpet with the sofas fell into a hole.   With a ladder to the side, he started stepping

Magic leaves a trace.

Holding the long metal handle she pushed the glass door to walk into the stone road. With bags of clothes in her hands.    Walling fast and looking back to see if she was still being followed. She threw one of the bags into an empty alleyway and saying a couple

A new star

He looked at his own body as he slept, got closer to the window and looked at the night sky.  He asked a star for a favour and shook the air in front of him.  With a brain full of bad ideas one of them seemed to crash against another

Psychosis

Another day in hell, he thought. It had been a year. Busy year doing nothing except getting fired from job and the stereotypical decline of his mental health. From cyanide to nuclear radiated earrings. From human trafficking to the drug operation of the whole world. Who knew that with the

Past ( psychosis II)

1 If you're reading this I'm already dead. The conversation I never had about a place I never saw.  I put the roses on the bar and ordered the bartender's favorite drink to make. I had been waiting for the only thing I asked

Borrowed nightmares.

He sat down to write and lit a cigarette. The man stepped into the room from a dark corner in the room. " still looking?" Said the man smiling " I want a deal." He replied without looking up from the page. Then he continued streching his arm

Reality TV live

The game show host started to introduce the game of the night. The man on the screen didn't know yet but the people in the street he talked to were being brought inside the studio as audience members. The well-dressed animated host made a joke and the signs

Jukebox wishes.

In a white room of marble, she made music with the wishes from the fountain. A jukebox in the corner took in the coins that the people from the restaurant picked from the fountain. The wish made with that coin came up in between the buttons of the jukebox as

Back Inside.

The tree stood in the middle of the field. The light went through the leaves drawing their shape on the ground. She sat there reading in between a dream and a memory. The house was far away and the sky was blue, the sound of the cicadas filled the air

The wolf.

A homeless man moved a box and sat on it. " Right your wrongs, the wolves are coming," said the man lighting a cigarette. He walked through the street and heard the man say the words but paid no attention. " you'll see the yellow eyes in

Guide at the cliff.

She watched the top of the hill from the dock. There was a figure that walked up to the edge and waited. ‌‌The figure would wait until it was dark until the lighthouse turned on. Then she would leave walking slowly away from the edge. ‌‌One day a ship arrived,

Precious Jewels.

A monarch butterfly stopped at the window. It moved its wings slowly up and down and left again. He moved the brush over the window and painted another one. The texture of the butterfly was not quite the real one and as it flew, it changed the texture of the

From the table.

The shadow opened a zipper in the middle of its chest. With one hand in dark mud, he pulled a ball still beating and placed it on the table. It picked up a couple of books to make sure the markings were right and started lighting candles in the corner

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Crystal ball

' show me the future' she said holding the crystal ball in her hands. She paused to use the vape to give more ambiance, as she expected nothing happened. "Did I ruin it by not believing it would happen hard enough?" The crystal ball lay over a