Cento from interlucent by isaura ren & The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
They wander through the stone halls, finding things to look at and things to touch and things to read. This is their world, starless and sacred. They find stories tucked in hidden corners, and laid out on tables, as though they had been there always, waiting for their reader to arrive.
Like they know the truths you never will?
Love letters.
The page has flipped, left you stranded on its shores. You wanted a happier ending?
Painted in metallic gold and covered in flames, its pages sealed together with something sticky that turns out to be honey.
Mirabel turns. Tucks a stray lock of pink hair behind her ear.
The mind we share tells me you believe the same, Mirabel says. You’re a storyteller. No story ever truly ends as long as it is told.
The girl comes a breath closer. Close your eyes.
Fate still owes me a dance.
Aura Martin is a writer from Missouri. She is the author of the chapbook, Those Embroidered Suns (Lazy Adventurer Publishing) and the micro-chapbook, Thumbprint Lizards (Maverick Duck Press). Her poems have appeared in Interstellar Literary Review, Off Menu Press, Wrongdoing Magazine, and elsewhere. In Aura’s free time, she likes to run and take road trips. Find her on Twitter @instamartin17.
photo by V T, Rinck Content Studio, Joanna Kosinska, and Aron Visuals (via unsplash)
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