So often we keep to ourselves. So often we work in silos. So often we ignore the person seated next to us. Caught up in our posts, likes and latest gossip bit. We miss the pain in the hearts of others. We miss the tremoring lips on the […]
Growing up she had been warned to never look at a mirror at night. Much harm could come her way if she did. She had been warned day in and day out and she took it seriously. Then one day she threw a fleeting glance at the mirror […]
Some might say she is a hoarder. But she doesn’t agree with such a characterization. She likes to characterize herself as a memory banker. Every single bit in her house, down to the straw, has an attached memory. She likes to make a lot of deposits. But she […]
Winston had quite an adventure the last few weeks. Actually the past year. He has been a very adaptable dog for which I am grateful. He endured two house moves. He made it through a cross-country trip. He is adjusting to new work schedules of his family. […]
They had been driving all night for hours on end. The coffee was doing nothing as it coursed through their veins. They needed something stronger. Way stronger. They hated what they had seen, said, and done. But there was nothing that they could now change. The shovel rattled […]
Every year he stopped by the grave to share his secrets. Dead men tell no tales, supposedly. Although, the way everything was progressing they would soon be able to enact their own version of bringing Wesley back from the dead ala Princess Bride. He would bring his empty […]
She felt free and wild. She felt beautiful. And that had not always been true. It was a long path to her freedom. But she had reached that point in her life. She took off her shoes and placed them next to his. And then they ran and […]
One can roll the dice. Can ask the magic eight ball. But what was the one true way to know what the truth may be? They always say the truth lies somewhere in between. In between what, though? Sigh. They had created their own version of a […]
As they neared the entrance to the tunnel she had this eerie sense of dejavu. She could taste the air and hear the wind. Meanwhile, her bones were acutely aware they had been here before. It was like this dream in which she had lived it all before. […]
It all seemed so mundane. But it wasn’t. It was also all so bland yet tedious. How had life become that way? She didn’t know. But then again she couldn’t feel anymore. She was an empty vessel just like any on that shelf. Except she would never be […]
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