What follows is an excerpt from Terri-Lynne DeFino‘s novel, A Time Never Lived. Read more about the novel and Terri-Lynne HERE! Night Wings Red dunes. Blue sky. Always a blue sky. The Iabba Desert. A waterless sea, but a sea once. The massive skeletons of flippered and finned creatures jutting…

The silver tin of crayons the teacher set out for us to draw with in kindergarten seemed to me a glittering treasure. The wealth of colors danced, sang to me like a siren song. Create, they said. I did. I drew a purple tree. Who doesn’t like purple? It makes…

Rumors Greatly Exaggerated Spotted—the rare and elusive, though conspicuous in size, novus liberum bookstore. Its neon plumes of red and green gleamed through the spattered raindrops on my windshield. It can’t be, I thought. A new independent bookstore is as uncommon as the last Dodo Bird—the remains of which were…