Prologue to a Children’s Book

Black Rabbits, hot tea underneath summer, they hop and skip freshly out of cages, with their bronze clocks prefacing doomsday bombs. The girl flickers through these candied pages; dreaming of dancing pictures and singsongs, and fancies escape across green stages.

This fellow, all charred and churned, waves the girl, “Come here, my little queen,” whispers Rabbit. Oh! How strange must this all be in a whirl— something ‘neath this heat must be playing tricks or the tea, stale and bitter, her thoughts twirl. Then her feet find speed through the garden’s mouth.

The girl’s breath staggered, Rabbit had its fun. This chase spins her old world by its noses, winds dragging clouds through the pearly skies. With time melting by the wilting roses, Rabbit sings of his home, a fantasy, opened once, then it forever closes.

“Hurry, little queen, your new tales await!” This news surely brings delight to the girl, whose days were as empty as her estate. For now, a land seeks her innocent name, greeting her by a massive, golden gate, to a twilight party beyond the grove.

Alas! Dead end appears by the dead tree, “Little majesty, care to jump with me?”

fairy tale noun fai·ry·tale | \ ˈfer-ē-ˌtāl \ 1a : a story for children set in imaginary lands, teeming with inexplicable forces and beings (such as dwarves, requited love, and goblins) // enjoyed the fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” b : a story in which everything fits right in place and ends in a happy ending. // those balletic fairy tales in which our family danced in glee — Alice | Hello future 2 : a made-up story usually designed to delude // and as I surge forwards, you fade, in the embers of our memories. — deja vu. nightmare nounS ilenc e.fairy tale 1 : a story for children set in imaginary lands, teeming with inexplicable forces and beings (such as unlimited wealth, requited love, and fairies) // I fell into a wardrobe of fireworks, its rosebeds tell me to stay on the right path. — somnum 2 : a fabricated telling usually designed to fool // and as I surge forwards, you fade, in the embers of our memories. — deja vu. 3 : a setting where some orbit their beliefs from // Every single one of these good things will happen to you, for you and I will live. — “goodbye past.” fai·ry· tale | \ ˈfer-ēˌ tāl \ See also: Delusion night·mare | \ ˈnīt-ˌmer \ 1 : a malicious phantom thought to haunt people during slumber // 2 : a frightening dream that usually awakens the sleeper // 3 : something (such as an experience, situation, or object) having the monstrous character of a nightmare or producing a feeling of anxiety or terror //

ARE YOU PREPARED, FOR THE UNRAVELING OF THE END?

nightma night· mare | \ ˈnītˌ mer \ re

1 : a malicious phantom thought to haunt and awaken people during slumber // I caught a glimpse of it. — jamais vu

2 : a reality in which everything you have sought to dream is instead filled with horror. // What once were gardens and greeneries, now only a burning wasteland — Epilogue to a Children’s Book

3 : a story that brings fear to life, tangible in all its glory // footfalls travel in hordes, bringing ashes to the land. — Reify See also: Illusion