Thole

Tenderness burns itself into ashes; it resists every instinct, every rage rising within, to forgive what can neither be understood, nor felt.

Here, reveries twist into madness, and hope becomes a wretched company in a realm where no luster ever reaches.

A descent both physical and psychological, this story peels back the flesh of the past to expose the nerve endings that remained.

She roused, deep in the earth's cradle-entombed in darkness and bleached bones and murmurs of a company that lurk...