Hayden Moore – Medium

Aug 4

Rain Songs and Shadows: On the Brink of Everything

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow… — Sylvia Plath Night measures its tomorrows in shadow… Shade is the breath of the woods, that daylong exhalation of the half-light, before a deep yawn at Dusk brings in darkness. Colors are…

Writing

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Rain Songs and Shadows: On the Brink of Everything

Jul 29

Woolf Dared to Trespass… Facing New Salems and Scarlet Letters

Whenever you see a board up with “Trespassers will be prosecuted,” trespass at once… — Virginia Woolf Nothing is unimportant… Ban a book and it fights for its life, not unlike the last dragon on Earth backed into a corner. Stories find a way to…

Writing

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Woolf Dared to Trespass… Facing New Salems and Scarlet Letters

Jul 25

Neon Yesterdays: Playing Games With Time

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me… — Jorge Luis Borges A mountain is negative space to the sky… Emptiness rounds this world into shape, proof that something can be held by nothing. What lies beneath shapes cities, since…

Prose

3 min read

Neon Yesterdays: Playing Games With Time

Jul 19

Mermaids On the Radio: In Pursuit of Silence

…there was only the sound of the sea. — Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse Wind whistles to remind us of silence… Thunderheads flicker in the night, casting a deeper darkness, just before rain unites cloud and sea. Waves shape the sound of lightning, bouncing thunder…

Writing

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Mermaids On the Radio: In Pursuit of Silence

Jul 15

Mischief and Magic: Stumbling Into Sight

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust Painted faces wink at the painter… Birdsong is the hidden chorus of every track, flying current through Beethoven, Björk and Beck, alike. Spiders weave their silken…

Writing

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Mischief and Magic: Stumbling Into Sight

Jul 13

Sky Tracer: Official Release Date Announced…

In the murk of the Spore Cloud, a pale light drifted across the sky… — Sky Tracer Love takes time… When I signed with Vraeyda Literary last year, I had no idea what was ahead. How could I? This was a book-deal for my first novel, a dream, something that…

Writing

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Sky Tracer: Official Release Date Announced…

Jul 11

Destiny’s Crayons: Beyond the Consensus of the Dead

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going… — Ursula K. Le Guin Stones we throw become mountains for ants to brave… Relativity never equalizes, not when Time and Space are always at odds. Hindsight is as clear as we imagine…

Writing

3 min read

Destiny’s Crayons: Beyond the Consensus of the Dead

Jun 29

Dusted With Chaos: Brooklyn Fireflies In Ultraviolet Ink

The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders… — A Midsummer Night’s Dream Flowers map a butterfly’s destiny… This journey is written in ultraviolet ink, such stuff only Chaos-makers can see, consumed as quickly as read. Summer sets and Fall rises, giving beauty to decay…

Writing

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Dusted With Chaos: Brooklyn Fireflies In Ultraviolet Ink

Jun 24

Red Sun of Always: Stories Rooted In Darkness

Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light. — Goethe A rose never contains its own beauty… There’s no distinctive word in a story when fantasy takes hold and reality believes it. Memorable passages only become so after life emerges from the pages — words…

Writing

3 min read

Red Sun of Always: Stories Rooted In Darkness

Jun 20

Falling Up a Hill: Switchbacks and Salamanders

What is life without incompatible realities? — Ursula K. Le Guin Roots descend for trees to rise… A cloudless sky reigns supreme in its blue-empty, but higher up, a deeper emptiness looms, the void of space that shapes this world. Chisels chip away at marble…

Writing

3 min read

Falling Up a Hill: Switchbacks and Salamanders