You've left the house without a word of when you're coming back and peace settles in your absence. I clean the tables, sweep the floors,...

We draw lines in the dust, count the motes that swirl through golden sunlight until our strength returns and we pull ourselves from warm...

Would you raze a castle to the grounds and blame the owner? Would you watch a starving beggar and blame them for their own poverty? Would...

Ever seen a penguin fly? No? That's because they can't. And? They're swimmers. Divers. They skid across snow and ice and plunge deeper...

I find you through snow winter howls with wolfish throats spruces reach dark towards nothing I wait for your tracks to find me and take...

She is thunder called forth on warm days, a rain cloud that sweeps the skies and drenches the soil and all its seeds. Her shadow is dark...

I am creatures stuck together in a trench coat. A little zoo of fairytales that hopes their disguise will fool the humans. We go about...

They call her a demon. They call her a saint. They say there isn't a trace of decency left in her veins. But she — she lies on her back...

People tell you to "strive for the top" "become part of the top 10%" "become part of the elite" strive to become financially stable work...

I watch a bumblebee wander across the big blue. Leaves and roots crackle around me fill my ears with trickling soil and rolling rock that...

You melt into a puddle of wax and drip down between the floorboards. I watch and know there's nothing I can do. You smile while you melt...

She holds the store-bought smoothie like an alcoholic holds a bottle, cap discarded, not looking while she sips — a motion so ingrained...

We celebrate with food that makes our stomachs rumble, with spices that remind us of holidays long gone. Music fills the kitchen where...

The weather had been mild the last few days. The snow had started to melt, leaving pebble-spotted ice and grey slush in ditches and on...

I've felt many weights and pressures in my life: the elder sibling's responsibilities; wood stacked in my arms to light the fire inside;...

When you pick yourself up from the hard-packed dirt and cobblestones, when you comb the leaves and twigs from your hair, when you mend...

We wake eyes wide to a world of green and glimmering gold dripping with dew as the mist dissipates Written by: Katrine Hjulstad...

Golden patterns blur before their eyes as they blink and blink and slowly wake from a dark dream. Written by: Katrine Hjulstad Instagram:...

"A break," she whispers. "Just a little bit of silence." They laugh. It echoes and bites and claws, at her eardrums and eyes and mind. No...

He lingers on the precipice of ruin, waiting, for the fall that is to come. "Few live long enough to see their graces turned to curses."...