This year the word of the year was an emoji and apparently cool things are now referred to as being “on fleek“. According to some 2015 retrospective lists “hella” is a popular term and believe me I hear it every day in my office. But I […]
It was time to get lucky. She could feel it. She knew she should head to the liquor store and get a scratcher. All signs were pointing to things turning around. The doctor said her mom would recover. Her daughter’s grades had improved markedly. Sometimes things just had […]
Seventy five lightning strikes. That is all that it took. Red always looked good on her and now it was even more striking. It was time to keep this secret quiet. There was nothing more that could be said. The evening had started well enough with a gentle […]
She put her hands together. She had not prayed in ages. Perhaps the last time she prayed was when she last needed something really badly. Wasn’t that always the case? She didn’t know who she was praying to. She just knew she needed divine intervention. She could not […]
She dipped her feet slowly into the murky waters. Was it time to haunt the haunted or go back in? Her eyes were clouded over with her many tears. The dogs were all howling. Her mom had told her that death was coming when the dogs cried at […]
Trains, planes and automobiles. Plenty of ways to escape. As she boarded the bus, she looked at the cast of characters. She imagined that amongst them was a man from another planet. A monster, per chance. Just like in the movie “Men in Black.” She knew that those […]
Up and away we go round and round. Below they watch as we fly up into the sky. Are they happy with us or waiting for disaster? Isn’t everyone waiting for disaster? Tick tock. Tick tock. Time doesn’t wait. I see him. He is there with steely eyes […]
A blue mouse isn’t individualism: Run The bins stand still. She has watched too many action movies lat eat night. She kept turning back to look at the bins expecting an escaped prisoner to jump out and run across the room. She stared at her pretty blue mouse. […]
The headlights would always be behind her She paced all day. She was already a fidgety child but that day she was all movement as was her destiny. She was told that they would be leaving forever without a word to anyone. She could only take one suitcase, nothing […]
The dead are now our longstanding archetypes The dead at been held at bay. Rust wouldn’t scare them off. No one had in ages received a tetanus shot. What was the point. A local circular wedged into the gate. who was going to bother to read it. The […]