magic – Jordyn Saelor

What God Said

Percy was God. Whoever Percy was. The salamanders and trees were his forces who braved the Dust Seas to either kill

bed

I came to in a bed of rough feathers under an orange sky–dark orange, basically brown, streaked with red, because dust clouded the air.

safe

they kept me in the little room with nothing to do but sleep and let my leg heal (the rashes had mysteriously disappeared already,

I woke. In a bed under blankets with the vertebrae still on. I blinked at the face with horns by the doorway and asked her if she was adopting me. The face burst into flame and said her name was Coach Purturbelly, she was in charge of the portalball teams, and she better not beContinue reading “free”

run away

I finally made a table of contents page: https://jordynsaelor.com/cant-catch-me-now/ *** This story isn’t about revenge, remember? So I’m done writing about my mother. Needless to say, in real life, dragons don’t come to help out lonely little girls. In real life, it takes a potion that almost melts your leg off to decide to runContinue reading “run away”

25- so I wrote

so I wrote in here again not for a dead woman from witch school but because I wanted to, for me, and because a

rose

Of course I’ve got my rose-colored glasses on—not having running water

Restore/Reorder

I’ve figured me out: I do something stupid or nasty then I feel bad. Then I punish myself. Like, I exiled you. Now I write letters to you

Rerun

I didn’t give into my baser instincts and turn the trees into people—for fifty years, at least, I kept wandering and writing you