(~1,500 words)Content warnings: Insects I, myself being Agar II Pharaoh of Egypt, rise. The sun is shining. It is awe inspiring. It is blinding. I stroke the stone Ibis which I keep by my bed and exhale. A fusion flows through me. I feel my chest loosen. I pick up the Ibis and walk to…

(~5,000 words) Content warnings: Depictions of peril My dad had always been a daredevil. For as long as I could remember, every few years, he would get some new crazy idea about quad biking across the Sahara or camping in a reserve in the middle of the Congo. You could always tell the pattern. He…