Gia Raquel

Stories

  • Foggy Eyes

    Gia Yetikyel

    I have a theory. In between all the God-like creatures, the aliens, the humans, the insects, the bacteria, there is this intermingling of not-so-randomized connections we are meant to find somehow, someway. Not exactly destiny, not exactly free-will. Soulmates. The notion where we are meant to meet certain people through the actions we take. Two…

  • Opia

    Opia

    Gia Yetikyel

    You never see yourself how you want to And you never quite think someone else will see that either     When you walk up to a small group of people, you sit, Listening to the conversation, but never contributing. It needed to be a beginning     He saunters through, catching your eye at first…

  • Inside You

    Gia Yetikyel

    Ophelia woke up with a jolt. When she looked at her clock, it read, 12:30 P.M. It didn’t feel as though half the day was gone. It never really did. It was always this repetitive loop she couldn’t seem to escape. But today would be different. This was the day she was going to kill…

  • Hiraeth

    Hiraeth

    Gia Yetikyel

    Artist’s Statement The title of this story is Hiraeth. It is a word of Welsh origin, unable to be truly translated into the English language. When searched, it is defined as homesickness for a place one can never go to, or maybe a place that never was. This is a story of two people trying to…