LaRae Pynas
Bio
Hello, and welcome. I am LaRae Pynas. I am aspiring to become a published author and poet. I write children's, sci-fi, fantasy, young adult, psychological thrillers/fantasies, short stories, poetry, etc.
Stories (13)
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Ballet of the Butcher Star
The air backstage at the Grand Theatre was a palpable entity, thick with the ghosts of a thousand performances. It clung to Elara’s skin like the faint, sweet-sour scent of sweat and rosin, a perfume she wore more constantly than any designer fragrance. This was not merely her workplace; it was her sanctuary, her confessional, and increasingly, her cage. The polished oak floorboards, worn smooth by the endless procession of pointe shoes, reflected the dim, amber glow of the utilitarian work lights, transforming the labyrinthine corridors into a gilded, echoing maw. Velvet drapes, once a vibrant crimson, now sagged like weary eyelids, their nap worn thin by the caress of countless hands, each touch leaving an infinitesimal residue of longing, of aspiration, of despair.
By LaRae Pynas7 days ago in Fiction
Through the Brass Keyhole
Rowan pressed her eye to the brass keyhole and saw her mother alive. Not a ghost, not a trick of light, alive, moving, her hair pinned up the way she wore it to keep it out of the stew, her sleeves pushed to the elbow, her mouth forming the familiar, half-sung hum of some song Rowan could almost remember. On the other side of the cheap white basement door, in a city block poured and paved five years ago, was her childhood kitchen.
By LaRae Pynas2 months ago in Fiction
