Melkur

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I have 189 stories published in 6 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 85630 times and 26 of my stories have been cherry picked.

My stories

The Guardian goes Awry

Standing ragged against the rain, Only a torn jacket to scare the crows, Hunched in darkness onto the pole, Fixing him to his lonely spot. Row upon row, field upon field of crops,

Plague-House

The cross on the door says it all. Quarantined within her quarters, A lady-in-waiting to Judge Death. These are the dying rooms, no doctor comes

The Watcher

(For my sister’s unborn child at three months, based on a picture from a scan) Curled as the crescent of half-moon rising, Waking up to the world within the womb,
Cherry

Not-We

My fault. I sent you away. My Not-We woman of the world, Such dukkha* as I have brought you I brought upon myself. The dark places of the inside opened When I dreamed alone of the future.

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