She opened her eyes and it was still dark out. She scanned the room knowing that she needed her medication immediately. She couldn’t let a second more go by. Her stomach was knotted and she felt there was no end in sight. She needed to numb it all. […]
I have been running around the house, the past week, like a madwoman. Cleaning, tidying up, throwing things out. I have been chasing the dog. I have been holding the dog as boxes upon boxes get delivered to our house. It has felt like everything has been […]
Tick tock. Tick tock. Her bags were packed and she was beyond excited for this opportunity of a lifetime. Ever since she was a kid she had dreamt of this moment. She had been so quiet about it all. Although, she had been the best singer in all of […]
So many thought of her as evil. She was the Ice Queen, afterall. But it wasn’t like that. It wasn’t meant to be like that. She didn’t have the power to turn things into ice and icicles. They had long ago ceased to have summers and […]
It was her very first memory. Or so she told herself and everybody else who cared to hear about her memories. It was not the best conversation starter or enabler at a party. However, she fared better with the story at small, intimate dinner parties. For at […]
At 3:27am, I was woken up by the barks and howls of neighboring dogs. My dog remained quiet but was alert and ready to jump in. What was occurring I don’t know. But it lasted for about four minutes and then it was done. I looked out the […]
Does it not suck when you spend countless hours and maybe even days searching for something that was in plain sight? I feel like my life has pretty much sucked the past year. No. I take that back. I don’t feel it. I know it. From changes […]
To the market I go With a map in hand I want a tomato But they only have grapes I buy the grapes For that is what I am sold I’m told tomorrow there will be tomatoes But what if I want an avocado instead I pull out […]
He sighed while he stirred his sweetened black coffee. Sweat dripped into his cup. He had toiled for over 30 years in this room. Now it was just a shell. Just like him. Just like him. Or at least, how he used to be. He picked up some […]
I have a love-hate relationship with spellcheck. As a kid, I used to be a story-teller. I was a champion that liked narrating short stories. Some would say I am still a story teller. Even as part of my management style, I use stories to drive home […]
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