Stories Without Voice

By: Wilona Riva

Disclaimer: Never have; never will, but can dream.

Gonna Be the One

They reluctantly agreed;

The boy would need to be watched.

He was a powder keg ready to explode,

Taking everyone with him.

The girl-who-wasn't-real melted slowly away;

A man who lived two lives crushed some pills and entered the dreamless sleep of the dead.

Three lives stand athwart a tangled timestream-

Who would be the one to wear the old king's crown?