The Infinite Starr

fiction

  • The Crown Beneath the Rabbit Hole

    They told you Wonderland was chaos.Madness.Nonsense dressed up in colors too loud to trust. What they didn’t tell you…is that Wonderland is what your mind looks like when you stop pretending you’re in control. You didn’t fall down the rabbit hole.You slipped into yourself. And now everything is talking. The clocks won’t stay still.The doors…

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  • The Reckoning of the Shadows

    There comes a moment when the shadows stop stretching. When they no longer have corners to cling to. When the walls they once hid behind begin to glow from the inside. No announcement is made. No trumpet sounds. It simply begins. The Reckoning is not loud at first.It is subtle.A crack in the story someone…

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  • The Queen of Hearts AND THAT MAN

    Valentine’s Day. Everyone celebrates the fairy tale.But no one asks how the queen earned her crown. Let me ask you something. What burns, but does not die?What loses everything and still walks away with more?What dines at tables it built, only to be left hungry, yet refuses to starve? The queen of hearts didn’t wake…

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  • When the Eyes Turn Black

    You remember the shift. Not loud.Not dramatic.Just a flicker. The eyes went black and the room changed. No one else ever seemed to notice it.But you did. You learned to read weather.Pressure drops.Air thins.The storm stands up in human skin. The temperature of a room can change without a window opening. You stopped complaining.You stopped…

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  • The One Who Is Listening

    They stood up too fast, like something inside them finally caught up with something outside them. Not a physical movement.An internal shift.The kind that feels like waking up in the middle of a sentence you’ve been repeating your whole life. That was the moment they realized the voice in their head wasn’t theirs. Not in…

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  • The Hallway With Too Many Doors

    Once upon a time, in a place that insisted it was sensible, there lived a creature who believed wishes were shortcuts. Not spells. Not contracts. Just little verbal hacks to skip the boring parts of becoming someone. This creature was funny in the accidental way. Always wishing loudly. Always surprised by the results. If there…

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  • The Thing Strangers Never See

    Before Nyx learned how to take, she knew how to see. As a child, she vanished into the trees that lined the backyard like old sentinels. The grass grew wild there, fed by roots older than the house itself. She played barefoot in the dirt, palms dark with soil, arranging stones, leaves, and bones into…

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  • The Ledger of What Was Taken

    They did not notice the moment she learned how to take. That is always how it begins. For years she was a vessel. A quiet thing. A body that absorbed moods the way stone absorbs heat. People leaned into her presence and left lighter, never asking where the weight went. They mistook her stillness for…

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  • Welcome to Ordinary

    Alice does not fall into this place. She arrives the way people do when they’ve followed every rule and still feel wrong. The entrance reads ORDINARY, the letters clean, helpful, impossible to argue with. At the door, they fit her with a jacket. Not to restrain her, they explain. To support her. It closes gently.…

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  • The Mad Tea on Main Street

    Alice was walking home when she passed the café. Home wasn’t really home yet. It was just the place she returned to when the city ran out of streets to wander. She had been drifting through the upside-down parts of town for weeks now, the places where storefronts stayed half-lit and conversations felt unfinished. She…

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