Today I slaughtered my other self in the mirror. I felt his pain as my own.

One of us was laughing, while the other was crying.

Stealing the light that enriched his eager eyes left me alone in darkness.

I don’t know which side of the glass I was on.

P.A.’s love for the fantasy genre started as a child. He connected his modem to another computer or Bulletin Board Service (BBS) to play a text-based fantasy game called MajorMUD. Along with reading Robert Asprin and painting D&D miniatures, his childhood was spent trading reality for the magical places inside his head. Now he’s put one of those places on the page. See more on his website.