Alive
“Her entire existence is trying to figure out what her life is supposed to be while her heart breaks a little bit everyday over the tragedy of being alive.”
Sweet Virginia Rose
Sweet Virginia Rose, with lips like your name, and hips (Oh, I miss those hips!) like hills beneath sheets, a landscape of boyhood dreams, what sorrow, what…
To Speak of Sins
Free at last! Free from the bondage of guilt! Never again would John be forced to hide under a veil of false forgiveness! She had freed him. John shouldered…
On the line
Listen to me. I was young, I was poor, I was foolish. I had nothing, and I wanted everything. I believed their promises when I dialed and told them what I…
Paralysis.
I couldn’t decide whether I was tired or awake. The numbers on the clock flashed in the dark, trying hard to convince me it was night. I nestle up in the…
A New Footless Era
The bitter sweet aroma of spent fireworks filled the air around the sidewalk at the corner of Haven Street and Pine Court. Mixed with the slight smell of blood…
Train Wreck
It was a terrible mess that was made that fateful snowy morning in November. The track was laid waste, rails twisted and torn asunder. Flat cars and box cars…
My Sister's Heart
I wake up, drowsy from the medicine they’ve given me. My chest hurts, a numb pain. I feel empty inside, knowing she’s gone, knowing that I will never see her…
Last Day
A normal day of waiting for the girl next to me to shut up. My twin was secretly laughing at my pain. I stared out of the frosted window. We’d been driving…
Zombies!
She had been been bitten. She ripped off her coat and looked at her arm. “It’s not deep,” Chris said. He knelt down, took her arm and inspected it. “Maybe…
What's Up?
Carl walked down the street in Philadelphia. Some dumb punks were graffitiing on the walls of a closed haberdashery, and the police were on the scene. Officers…
Leaving Home
I turn the page of the diary. The beginnings of the next entry are there, but otherwise it all is obliterated by blood. The cameras show a riot breaking out…
A Tragedy
-------------------------- Today he met his future widow. --------------------------
Survivor's Guilt
Anna closed her eyes and again imagined her step father standing above her 24 years ago, thin lips and thinner hair, asking her about her day. Anna’s 1868th…
You'll never see
Hey, I don’t know how to start this, so I’ll just get to the point. The reason I turned you down wasn’t because I’m not ready to date at the moment. I can’t…
With the Fishes
You were with them in their last moments, dutifully taking heed of their plight. After months some of them were found, separated both from themselves and from…
The Revenger's Inaction
I wait and measure while salt water flows, Scouring palatial walls and hallways clean, My phantasmal father, his ear blocked up, Does not hear me as I scream…
Savior
“I love you,” she said as they stared into one another’s eyes. Joy filled him and he grinned from ear to ear. He grabbed her hands and was speechless and just…
Anniversary
“Do you think he’ll show this year?” Travis asked his brother as he flipped another steak. The meat popped and sizzled as the raw side made contact with the…