Still a Beauty
Taking out the last pin from my hair, letting pretend curls bounce onto my shoulders... it was the work of gravity and my sighing. I shook out the hairspray…
Lands Edge: Book One In the Evolution Saga
Floating in cool water, Stewie tried to alleviate the reddish lumps on his sides. He ‘d lied, telling those who’d noticed, that he’d crawled among poisonous…
Damion's Fugue State
Damion was floating in a state of perpetual fugue-like symptoms. His wife prattled next to him in the driver’s seat and he agreed, nodded his head and smiled…
Back to the Rain.
The sun shone down on the gleaming tarmac like a blowtorch on impossible ice as the plane finally came to a stop. England once more! the land of my fathers…
4 o'clock in the morning
Connor was making breakfast, as he always did during the week. He was a morning person, in that respect as well as many others, the exact opposite of his…
Changes in the Air
Dennis Larson rinsed the rest of the shaving lather away and really looked at himself for the first time in a long time. Deep lines creased across his face…
Assignment
trudge trudge Ethan huffed as he returned home from school. Another horrible day in a horrible week. He was having the worst luck, first making an ass out of…
The Whole Story
Soul mates reunite. Wedding bells ring. _______________ _______________________ ________________________________ _____________________________________________
Awakening
I don’t know where I am, and I don’t know how I got here. I opened my eyes, and I was blinded by the light radiating above me. I thought to myself, _Where am…
Spring Comes Early
She awoke to a day like any other. The sky was the color of a robin’s egg and almost as flawless. A few clouds dared to block the sun, but they were white and…
Everything
He was going to be the Champ. It started with a push up. Real simple, up, down. He used to do 100 of them every day, and every push became easier. Today he…
Waiting in the Storm
The rain was coming down in sheets. The earth was already saturated, so the new wetness just ran in rivers along the ground. And it was cold. Freezing. A…
All the Good Stuff
How many stories start by describing the weather? “It was a dark and stormy night,” “The sun was shining down on us,” “Blah, blah, blah.” Weather is boring…
The House in Broken Cliff
Broken Cliff. A small town on the Pacific coast. Nobody knew me there. For some reason, this seemed faintly ominous. Maybe that just made it all the more…
Flourish
as my former life is torn down around me hope swells flourishing a saga of new beginnings untold adventure engulfed by nature
The Beginning
It happened to be exactly one year before, halfway through sophomore year. And it happened at a dance: _“I can’t believe you got me to do this, Jason,” I…
Beginnings
An old friend waits beyond these gates. The world is calm and steady as the slate-grey sky waits to see what I’ll do next. I step forward and the crunch of…
Midwest Purgatory: A Stalled Travelogue, chapter one (part two)
A red and white striped long sleeve shirt. Who wears a long sleeve shirt in the dead center of July? “It’s- well... uh,” Rusty stumbled for something to say…
The Tale of the Three
_There has always only been three. Give us trust and we grant peace. From three corners of the land, our wise eyes watch, our ember wings guide. In troubled…
Wayne (Part 1)
The distractions were finally gone. There was nothing left but his impending death. Wayne had lived a full life, surrounded by the people he loved, but this…