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Psyche: A Novelette
A novelette about grief, crises of faith, death, and the afterlife.
Holly Wright
May 23, 20241 min read
Chapter 1
January She plays for an empty room. Her fingers slide up and down the neck effortlessly, dance from string to string with the intimate...
Holly Wright
Feb 20, 202416 min read
For the Great Blue Heron
I’ve heard it said the great blue heron is a sign of good luck As if she didn’t earn every moment of stillness through a lifetime of...
Holly Wright
Jan 25, 20241 min read
TOSKA
noun; Russian; roughly translates to “sadness” "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most...
Holly Wright
Jan 23, 20242 min read
Tempus
Dear Reader: I don’t know why I’m writing this. I don’t want to share my pain—isn’t there already enough of it to wrap around the world a...
Holly Wright
Jan 22, 202439 min read
September 2022
I wrote three lines last night when I woke up choking on my terror again again again The way I wake up every night, mid scream and have...
Holly Wright
Jan 21, 20242 min read
The Death of Man
Three people occupied the chamber. A man, tall, with hair the color of honey and startlingly wide eyes, hovered over a girl, readjusting...
Holly Wright
Jan 21, 202415 min read
Bone Structure
December 26th The neighbor girl in her sweater—creamy white, just a shade or two lighter than her skin— sitting on her front porch steps....
Holly Wright
Nov 11, 20204 min read
The Storyteller's Grave
There’s a map of the life the storyteller lived littered across his grave. Forget-me-nots begged him to return. Half-bloomed and plucked...
Holly Wright
Oct 28, 20202 min read
Circus of Souls
The stars fell out of the heavens, tumbling from their seats in the velvet black sky. They slipped below the backdrop of glowing tents...
Holly Wright
Oct 11, 202016 min read
Dancing in Chains
In all her dreams she drowned. Perhaps they had been nightmares, once. The overwhelming pressure in her chest, the blurry vision, the...
Holly Wright
Aug 14, 20209 min read
Origin//Oblivion, or: Liminal
“Origin” To rise. Everything has risen from stars, dust, hope. That man on the street, crashing to his knees with his bottle and his...
Holly Wright
Jul 30, 20201 min read
Infinitesimal
I imagine my life in the eyes of a god Fleeting Small Magic I watch infinity unfold in the seas and I see a god’s tears And I stare at...
Holly Wright
Jul 24, 20201 min read
The Lovers
The woman on her deathbed hovered there for years. Her white blonde hair faded to wisps so fine, they almost weren’t there. Her eyes,...
Holly Wright
May 16, 20205 min read
A Love Story in a Night
They met outside the hotel, in the pouring rain, and embraced. Awkward laughter tumbled from their lips as they greeted each other, and...
Holly Wright
May 13, 20207 min read
The Whale
"If this whale’s song is higher than all the others, can anyone hear him? Is all his singing for naught, his voice drifting slowly into...
Holly Wright
May 9, 20202 min read
In Time
The first time we traveled through time, it was an accident. He was getting rid of old documents. His marriage certificate from his first...
Holly Wright
May 3, 20208 min read
The Nightmare
I’ve always felt half strangled. There’s smoke creeping under the door when I sleep and there are flames licking their way up every exit...
Holly Wright
Apr 11, 20201 min read
Pyro
A true pyro watches their art. Flames are a masterpiece. Flames are music notes, floating out on smoke and clinging to your clothes,...
Holly Wright
Apr 5, 20201 min read
The History of Loneliness
Loneliness started with the Gods. She crept behind them like a shadow. Watching them, admiring them…. Loving them. She reveled in their...
Holly Wright
Apr 5, 20203 min read
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