Words
Powerful instruments Instruments of Grace Kind and encouraging Forgiving and accepting Instruments of Pain Cruel and demeaning Unrelenting and mean Evil lashes…
Risks don't always pay off for everyone...
Risks don’t always pay off. Not for everyone. I took a risk once. I encouraged my little brother to touch an asteroid at the space exhibit at the museum. How…
Knowledge Is Worth It
Forget everything you ever thought you knew. Crack your skull open and let us see the brilliance. Red and orange and purple spewed out--and we didn’t know what…
Escape
It’s been three days and the pain still sears as strongly through my memories as it did the minute after it happened. Iris was destroyed. Our home planet. As…
What's done is done
It would have been, as willfully restated by Theodore Roosevelt, ideally smart to “speak softly and carry a big stick,” but in a time where those with “big…
Legacy
There were a thousand words and they added up to nothing. They sat like the sermon in Eleanor Rigby, waiting for another living soul to care. “This is the…
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…
The Visit
He was visiting for just a few days, but to her it seemed more like months. The minutes seemed to inch by when she was sitting in the same room as him, ticking…
Peace
The warm evening breeze caressed my face as i stepped gingerly out of the pair of stilettos. Deftly i braided my hair and padded over to the bench, settling…
A Shameful Distraction
She stopped, teetering on the edge of the curb; it would be only moments between her dash across the street and exposing herself in the cone of light beneath…
Vibrations are Blind
There was just one problem with using vibrations for sight; anything flat, writing or color, is invisible. There was no doubt in her mind that a car has been…
That "Something is Wrong" Feeling
It was a Monday morning, nothing looked different that morning than any other morning, but within minutes her blood ceased to pulse, instead it raced steadily…
Looks can be Deceiving
Night’s velvet sheet darkened the sleeping suburbs. While the clock said it was morning, to the rest of the world it was night. A single person cast shadows…
Why Can't I, if I Can?
“I’m tired having to stay hidden. I want to show what I really do.” Jerome was young, kind of backwards in a way. He developed such a control of his powers…
Blizzard
It wasn’t often that the winter sky glowed with lightening flashes. She thought this blizzard would be like the last “blizzard”. But this one started only…
It started in darkness
I’d first noticed something was wrong when it went black, not the black of house lights off, but the darkness that comes from no light at all, no glow of…
Milkshakes ARE Powerful... I should know...
The year was 1994 when I, Stupendous Todd, defeated my arch nemesis, Asparagus Man, with cookie dough bullets and a giant milkshake. The evil vegetable man…
It Will Only be My Pain
I knew he couldn’t understand. He knows his abilities limits. He knows what it is, exactly what he does. It has a name. He had help during development, not…
Another's Pain Gone; A Pain of My Own
“How can you not be proud? You’ve never practiced, never been taught, yet, you do amazing things that people who have trained for years can’t even dream of…
Nothing Else Mattered
“I think I just need some time to warm up.” She gulped and ran into the hallway. Sitting down at the practice piano she placed her trembling hands on the keys…