Harper Kingsley

Title: Two Scenes
Subtitle: Kanon vs Canon: Behemoth
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: science fiction, superhero, action
Link to part one: Two Scenes 01

The sounds of battle were getting closer and he found himself bracing for that moment when Behemoth crushed him and the civilians that depended on him. Hearing the adults hushing the panicked children above him did not make him feel any better. There were lives depending on him.

Seth kicked up his speed, praying that he could get them away before the fight reached their location. He could hear the shrieks of the children as they were jostled around inside the van, but he didn’t have the wherewithal to worry about them. He had to focus on getting away.

He thought he could feel Behemoth’s hot breath on the back of his neck, that was how close Behemoth was getting. It seemed the giant villain had spotted the van and had decided to go after the kids.

Title: Tears
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: drama, angst
Summary: There are times when she retreats to the solitude of her bedroom and cries.

There are times when she retreats to the solitude of her bedroom and cries. There’s something cleansing about tears, about cracking the hard shell of her emotions and letting all the hate, rage, and sadness out in one uninterrupted flood of tears. To cry until her eyes ached and her nose was red and sore.

And then she washed her face–flipping her eyelids back to release the trapped salt deposits to prevent swollen eyelids–and crawled into her bed. It let her paste the plastic smile on her face with the morning light and pretend that everything was good, she was happy and nothing was dying inside.

Being able to cry was the only thing that let her face the days of boredom and abuse. She was a loser, but she could pretend otherwise if she tried hard enough.

Title: Cake
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: contemporary fiction
Character: Dahlia Quinzant

During her break at work, Dahl wrote out a plan in her small memo book. She ignored the looks she received from other people moving in and out of the break room and focused on her task, her pink and white pill pen clenched in her hand.

Dahl felt good about the plan taking shape in front of her. She didn’t try to get creative and she kept things to what she could reasonably accomplish. She didn’t want to be like Sharon and her failed cabbage soup diet–she’d lost fifteen pounds, but gained back twenty, and that had been the end of that.

Title: Cake
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: contemporary fiction
Character: Dahlia Quinzant

They say that the first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge it. Dahl wished her problem wasn’t that she was fat, but there wasn’t much she could do about it. Problems were what they were.

After a day at work where she self-consciously felt as if everyone was looking at her–judging her–she came home to begin doing some online research. She wanted to know the best way that she could lose weight and not completely blow her monthly budget.

I make wishes on the stars all the time. It doesn't seem like a waste to me. Because in the forming of a wish--an idea--a concept of what can be is created. And until a wish is formulated, it's nothing but stardust and fantasy.