The Alchemy of the Void - A Journal of the Unformed
March 26. It’s early, or maybe it’s far too late for the sleep that never quite came to shelter me under its wing, and the air in the room feels heavy, saturated with that peculiar scent of cold linden tea and a thin layer of dust settling on the edges of unspoken words. Eh, how strange it is, this state of the shattered mirror , the one where until yesterday you saw not just your own face, but the entire world—ordered, logical, seemingly eternal—and now... now there are only shards. You know how it is; sometimes it feels like if you just don’t move, if you hold your breath long enough, time might take pity and rewind the tape to the moment before everything fell into its constituent parts? But it doesn’t. It just leaves you there, in the middle of the room, with an empty chair facing you and that deafening silence , which isn't just an absence of sound, but the presence of something heavy, almost palpable, pressing you into the floor. A breakup isn’t just an event; it is an alche...