Writing - Lesley's Espire's Posts
I like to write interesting little short stories. If ever I find I particularly like one, I'll extend it. Hope you enjoy! If you really like these stories, you're welcome to ask to read my novel, the Prince of Motylo!
March 11, 2026
What colour is justice?
Whistling. It’s faint, only slightly audible. It’s sweet, like all the world is fluffy and warm. It’s not. You know it’s not.The birds might be singing their lungs out in the unseen treetops.But it’s still easy for you to pretend they don’t exist. Perhaps they’re just speakers in the trees.It wouldn’t be that unheard of now, would it?Silver glints in between your fingers and scarlet flitters across your palms.…
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February 7, 2026
The Prince of Motylo
Photo by SJ Objio on Unsplash. The air stinks. I can’t shake the fear tingling up my spine. Alone. Alone in a forest so wild that they say nobody escapes. My name is Estator. I wear a mask. Physically. It’s melted into my face by now.…
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January 2, 2026
Forget to Live.
Photo by Morica Pham on Unsplash. Forget to live? Did I really just think that? What kind of person wants to forget to live? You do. And then the voices went. They stopped talking to me. They stopped caring. I’m the one who’s forgotten how…
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December 29, 2025
To forget is to live.
Photo by Aditya Chinchure on Unsplash. Ze is probably one of the most terribly amazing places that you could even imagine. The air crackles with a kind of mechanical tragedy. The floor is cracked in places that make no sense. The sky is…
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December 27, 2025
Letters at the End of the World
Photo by Warren on Unsplash. Dear Landlord, I don’t quite know what you mean by your weird questions… His name? I used to know of a name. I think it was a pretty name. The kind of name that defines someone. That makes them who they are.…
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December 27, 2025
Colours in the AfterLife
Photo by David Clode on Unsplash. A dark landscape. Its background is something that looks like a star, in its death throes, frozen in place. It’s incredibly beautiful. Blues are overlaid with shining, furious whites. Its primary effect is…
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September 3, 2025
The 539th Sin - 77 x 7
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on UnsplashNOTE - It’s supposed to start on Chapter Three. This is where this story starts.CHAPTER 3 - 17/8/99 IT’S SO DARK. A sick stench filled my nostril; my stomach howled.No matter how hard I tried, no matter…
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August 13, 2025
The Vigilante, the Criminal, and the End P2
____________________________________________________________________________PART 2 - Lady Cassandra in Deathly Days____________________________________________________________________________Photo by Stéphan Valentin on UnsplashCassandra…
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August 6, 2025
The Vigilante, the Criminal, and the End P1
____________________________________________________________________________PART 1 - Blackmailer Ferry Mersch____________________________________________________________________________Photo by Leon Andov on UnsplashThere’s a crystal…
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August 1, 2025
Can Death live?
Photo by Maciej Wodzyński on UnsplashIt’s incredibly vital that you don’t misunderstand me when I write. Because every precious word that you hear is completely true.You see, there was a time when I, Knox Hawk, the last dictator of Motylo,…
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July 29, 2025
Is this how we should treat our Dictators?
Photo by Rafael Garcin on UnsplashThere’s a man sitting, slumped against the Crystal Statue. He’s the King, they say. His strong arms shake, and their vessels stand on end. His hand holds up a heavy head, as his face contorts, a great look…
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July 29, 2025
Investigating Investec
Investec is a financial firm that works primarily in the UK and in South Africa. This report seeks to calculate a Cost of Capital for the firm, trying to work out how close its debt ratio is to the optimal debt ratio and how valuable its…
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July 28, 2025
Maybe.
*NOTE*I am sending a lot of stories in one go today! Don’t expect the same in future days!*NOTE*Maybe if you look up to the stars, through a perilous oasis of cold indigos and swathing flaming oranges, past a hundred million galaxies like…
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July 28, 2025
Greed Displays His Hand
“You hear ten-thousand storiesAbout one-hundred-thousand menThey’ll take you out to warIt’s one in a million. You won’t be brought back again…”A Thousand Stories — Poet RaphletThen I saw them both, twisted faces in a duel, both mental and…
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July 28, 2025
Dark; Castle
There it was, it stood grand and powerful, stark against the sky, lit only by the thin, pale light of the full moon. A storm threatened in the distance as ravens littered the sky in anticipation of a promised meal. Hopeful, brave and…
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