Anthony Raymond

Anthony Raymond is an emerging writer from San Francisco, California. His most recent publication was a short story for Czykmate Productions and he was a semi-finalist in the Ember Chasm Review novel excerpt contest. Anthony is currently a student at Stanford University in the novel writing certificate program.

The Black Rose

I turned the uncut stone three times over in my hand. It was rough and coarse, but he explained to me that it was imperative it wasn’t altered. He said the process stripped away at it, and if I wanted it to “harness the powers of the earth” as he said, I needed to keep it the way the earth made it. Or in this case, the moon.

Anthony Raymond

Anthony Raymond is an emerging writer from San Francisco, California. His most recent publication was a short story for Czykmate Productions and he was a semi-finalist in the Ember Chasm Review novel excerpt contest. Anthony is currently a student at Stanford University in the novel writing certificate program.

The Black Rose

I turned the uncut stone three times over in my hand. It was rough and coarse, but he explained to me that it was imperative it wasn’t altered. He said the process stripped away at it, and if I wanted it to “harness the powers of the earth” as he said, I needed to keep it the way the earth made it. Or in this case, the moon.

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