writing
this is my personal selection of original writing, featuring prose, poetry, and other things in-between. much of this content is moody and strange; i hope to find readers out there who appreciate it <3 please direct all questions and comments to my twitter dms
alternatively, all my polished short stories are hosted on medium. i was also published in the september 2021 14th issue of coffee people zine with my short story A Cup of Sunshine; you can purchase a copy here. the archive of video game news journalism i did for screen rant can be found at screenrant.com/author/gray-fore
The Burning Bridge
Your lungs shudder at the groan of blackened wood cracking apart, breath short with smoke and ember. The dismay of fire has taken away your forest. It comes for the bridge—old timber over the creek evaporating—inevitable flame splitting the grain, severance, red glow horror and orange night sky. The memory of summers is like life flashing. Your framework bridge crosses the cool creek through forests that were home, childhood, and…
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The blankets are soft and warm to suit a vulnerable chick amid weather. It rains on the roof shingles, finger-tapping and fiddling with the wood, water dripping down to windows to collect and further condensate on blued glass. A ceiling leak plinks into a polite wood bowl by the bed. She lies on her side…
The Way Her Hair Falls
I am awake before she is. The sunlight lays warm on our bedsheets, white dunes of linen shifting gentle over her side as I turn. I see the curve of her shoulder—light tracing down her arm, haloing her skin—before it disappears under fabric. Her side rises with the soft rush of sleeping breath. Like gust between wheat grass. I watch it stir little motes of dust, floating on…
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Content warning: assault, violence, sexuality, substances, death, blood, weapons
The Silent Company
Content warning: violence, arthropoda, food, death, blood, weapons, militarism