A Seed of Truth
“Who are you?” I whispered. Mary placed a cold palm against my cheek. “I’m whoever you need me to be. Whoever you see, that is who you need most.” Memories of…
Dignity in the Face of Misery
Mary pressed the back of her hand to her son’s forehead. Even before she made contact, she could feel the heat of the fever that still wracked Lester’s tiny…
A Wasteland Job Interview
The scientist was a man named Mary. He was small and thin, with a compass strapped to his wrist and a dirty backpack on his back. More importantly he wanted me…
Mary's Journey: A Strange Awakening
Mary rubbed her belly again trying to figure out why she was feeling so empty. She wasn’t hungry or at least no food sounded good. Her fingers probed through…
Decades
It’s been ten years since I’ve seen the one I love. Ten years since I’ve looked into her eyes. No longer. I’m finally going to see her again. Ten years ago I…
Goodbyes (VII)
Now there is only one more place left to go. My place. Mary said I could sleep at her place tonight and she’d buy the extra ticket. I tell Ethan everything on…
Goodbyes (VI)
“What is it?” Mary asks, a little concerned. “Wait, why are you even moving?” “Some director or something was in the club and saw me. Fell in love with my act…
Goodbyes (I)
I enter the diner and wait until the cop car is out of sight. I jog to the club and head for the *Employees Only* door, though I haven’t been one for a while…
Love Amidst the Gravestones
I found myself standing in the graveyard with flowers again. It wasn’t even a particularly nice graveyard. It was just a place where people’s bodies were…
Fantasyland XIX
As a rule there are two things in life that you want to avoid, the first is to stay clear of the M4 on a public holiday weekend and the other is don’t go…
Fantasyland XVIII
“I didn’t want to harp on about your werewolfness, that’s all,” Harold spluttered in his defence, “what kind of person do you think I am to jump on in and…
Fantasyland XVII
It’s not every day you come across a former partner who now takes the form of a werewolf. The usual conversation topics normally associated with running into…
Fantasyland XVI
Harold’s werewolf problem had not eased, in fact it was worst. The pair were creeping about each other in a weird dance made more so by the fact that neither…
Twisted Love - A Miracle
Well he hadn’t been with Mary. That was always a good thing. A miracle and a good thing. Almost as good and miraculous as him being, she dared to think it…
Twisted Love - The Answer
3 minutes later Come What May could be heard coming from Hannah’s pocket. Mary sure was quick with the responses. Funny thing was, she might not understand…
Twisted Love - Mary the know-it-all
Sure once she started talking you couldn’t get her to stop and every story she told revolved around the same five topics but when it came to the dating status…
Twisted Love - Rob
Hannah couldn’t believe that she had perceived anything as beautiful before she had seen Rob. Nothing seemed as wonderful or spectacular. Rob had brought a new…