when he's gone
I miss him when he’s gone But can’t stand when he’s Beside me Absence makes the heart grow fonder Or only more confused? And when his friends cluster around I…
What's The Opposite of Schadenfreude?
Greg stared into his weak rum & coke and swished the ice around. (Why am I even here?) Well, his friend was getting married. Of course he had to show up. He…
Another Year
Hot cocoa sloshed. A small spot appeared on her jeans, just above her knee. She laughed at her own clumsiness before she finished off the last few swallows of…
A Pervasive Kind of Sickness
Winds, spurned by the white-capped mountains to the east, blew across the valley plain in hacking spasms. The long stemmed grasses of the valley’s floor…
Surrounded, Alone, and Dirty
A rotund figure righted from his work and tucked his chin to let a rolling, rumbling emanation escape his gullet. He paused, then drawled, “Mmm, Fritos, Dr…
The Flip of a Switch
Steven frowned and stepped backwards. He swore he had turned off this part of the facility. He slid his card through the reader and pushed the heavy doors…
Tails of Feint: In the North
The wind gusted and snow fell off the branches outside. The snow held a special place in his heart. Everything slowed down when it fell. The moon reflected off…
Tales from the Sidewalk: Lost and Alone
Shelly was terrified. Nothing looked familiar. She had no idea where she was or where her mom had went. All she could do was keep walking forward, tightly…
The River
Joesephine was nearly unconcious, waiting for death when she felt Brandon’s outstretched hand clutch at her shirt, and she was both relieved and terrified…
Promises
It’s been so long Since he felt like he was whole. Too many moments are lost In floods of emotion he can’t control. Instead of what he wants, It became what he…
Words.
I need you weak. I need you vulnerable. If I could make you fall in love with only my words I’d write forever. Let each word drip from your lips. If my words…
A Hollow Cry
Crouched, fetal Floorshaped Hands clasped Crying out Hollow Please Make it stop Make this wretched point end Make this solo romance finish Make this deathly…
Living with the Trio
You step off to the right. Darkness, Nothing, and Desperation yell blood curdling screams. They want you to come back to them, they tell you that you will…
Clutches of Dispare
Darkness surrounds you, envelopes you, craddles you. Every way you turn you find Nothing; large and powerful and strong. Nothing and Darkness are your constant…
Fear
So much fear. Take one man out of a mass of thousands and his basic emotion will be fear. Everything spiraled out of control so quickly. They said we all had…
Kitten adopted
His thrift store clothes, threadbare tweed trousers and linen shirt, too large for his thin body, lay scattered around the room. I gazed down at the wiry…
Alone
I wake up in the morning to machines beeping … tubes winding in and around my body. Blood. Lot’s of it. Better call the nurse again. The smell is almost…
Into the darkness
She walked into the dark unknown. She knew nothing of her surroundings; staring blindly into the deep dark. She reached with her hands only to feel nothing…
One Little Christmas Tree
The streets were dim, the sun having not yet risen. The apartment was as darkened as well, save for one small, rotating Christmas tree in the corner of the…
An Angel Lights the Dark Path of Their Dreams
Someone told me You had caroled solely But that you weren’t lonely Only that you went undoubtedly Without a one and only who wholly Understands your soul’s…