Don’t be frightened. Come right in. Anchor your boat and feel the seabreeze gently push you through the door. Despite the blood dripping from her mouth and her ghoulish grin, she is but a gentle child. She will do you no harm, I promise. That is, […]
The earth was dry but she was fired up. She was a true believer. They all were. They were all also broken which meant that they understood each other very well. They had a lovely breakfast today as they did everyday. It was tasty, filling, and replenishing. Could […]
She always knew she’d kill for him. She just was never sure it would be necessary. She was just never sure how much her hands would shake, if at all. She was just never sure how everyone else would take it. But she had never cared about that. […]
They had been waiting for this moment for over twenty years. They woke up with a renewed vigor and sense of purpose that they had not felt in a rather long time. They had the “early bird” tickets and they were the first ones in line that […]
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. […]
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 […]
Waking up at 5am each day can be tiring. That’s a simple statement. I wake up bleary-eyed and search for my morning coffee. I try to find the coffee grounds and hope to remember to put water into the coffee maker. I think ahead to what I have […]
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 […]
He hadn’t been out for a run in a long time. He long ago stopped caring about everything including his fitness and health. What did it all matter, anyway, he thought. Nothing was going to stop the inevitable. Maybe he was too cavelier about everything but no […]
He knew that he was an old soul. His body ached despite his youth. He tried to find love and heart everywhere he went. Yet, at times there was no such love back from the world. But he would continue to persist in his quest. That […]