Every journey begins with a word uttered to the wind in the silence of solitude. Each tale crafted as prose or poetry was once a promise to a self that died in the calamities of life. Unsaid words cling together to tell the stories of strong souls, with metaphors of trauma and similes of grief. When the extinction of the human race becomes a calculated experiment, will slumber bring comfort? When the demons that haunt you become a part of your soul,...