*waking from a dream* 'I wish these dreams would go away' Saraphine thinks to herself as she gathers her belongings to move on.

'Maybe I should just go to this place, The Black Raven Inn, so these dreams will go away and I can sleep for once.'

*She gathers herself and packs her little satchel*"Lovely, Here girl" Saraphine calls for her white German Shepard.

"I wish you would quit wondering off like that" she says as she pats Lovely on the head.

Never again will I let you in,
Never again will you see inside,
I opened my soul to you.
Handed you my heart.

Love was between us...
And you went away...
I stood and waited.
I stayed and supported.

Never again will you see in.
Never again will I let you inside.
I handed you the essence of my soul.

A collection of poetry and prose submitted to VO in 1996.

Reginald's revelations were followed by a long silence, interrupted only by the officiousness of the waiter. The spell once broken, they exchanged a number of more or less irrelevant observations. Ethel's mind returned, again and again, to the word he had not spoken. He had said nothing of the immediate bearing of his monstrous power upon her own life and that of Ernest Fielding.

I'm turning away from thy light
and lay myself into blackest night
I adore the sleepless nights
awe this endless death
A view of creation are a view of Illusion
this synopsis of sublife
a start from mud
But here I'm as anyone a part in this play
of neverending lives
of remembering it all over again
Hail to endless night away from the ugliness of the sun
showing the ugly new world growing here
all around us
A world taking away personality and human contact
a frozen lake of endless tears
and in endless pain