She sat in the dark grieving. She pondered where she had gone wrong. But she didn’t really have to. She knew. She always made the wrong choices and gave too many people a second, third and forth chance. She was a fool. She wasn’t going to grieve anymore. […]
She shook her head and chuckled. It was quite ludicrous to imagine such a get-away car and driver. This plan was, most assuredly, not going to work. But with similar certainty, it needed to. The backpack held everything she needed. But the will to outrun what haunted her […]
The leaves are rapidly falling. We sing odes to the summer that has passed and to the present autumn that is flying by. Why must we pass onto winter where not only the weather, but the hearts are also cold? Bare trees. Bare souls. Bundled bodies but frostbite […]
There was a time in which antique shopping provided a reprieve from the present and provided for a future adventure. While the shops pointed to the past, they were like comfort food for future stomachaches. Now she went in them and felt nothing other than the need to […]
She walked around humming as she was in her comfort zone. She noted to herself “I was born in darkness”. Therefore, she was darkness. But when she was bright, she shined like no other. That was her gift in life. She knew how to alternate between light and […]
She went to look at the stack of stuff she would have to go through. Why haven’t they thrown stuff out along the way? Random discreet things just ended up all mixed in with one another. There was no way to use them for they were hidden, out […]
She stared at the prickly flowers. They were beautiful. They were rough. They were fiery yet gentle. They were like her mother. And, today was the day she had dreaded since childhood. She put on her black dress. She grabbed a shawl and a hat. She held her […]
It had been a good Saturday. Yet, all day she had felt a grand sense of unease. She dredded going to sleep as she knew the ghosts would enter her dreams. They always did this time of year. They walked through her brain and awakened her with anxiety. […]
Oh to travel. Oh to dream. Her first trip in ages. She was feasting on everything through all her senses. This was living. This was to live. She was even doing a dance. Standing on her tippy toes. Yet, something gnawed at her. She would have to leave […]
After the funeral, they went back to the house to finish clearing through their mother’s belongings. It was not an easy task. But it was a task to help keep the mind distracted. Yet, everwhere she looked she found a new set of souvenirs bunched together. Her mother […]