Chilling Words (5)
Gazing out the window, waiting. Checking the clock, waiting. She would never give up. The man she knew was destined to come back to her would come, and she…
Waiting
A chain of pains, lashing out all across your body in a horizontal way, Making me cry ‘cause there was nothing I could do. I can hear you. Helplessness at it’s…
Waiting
You’re really excited. You found this... thing, it doesn’t matter what it is, it’s that something that interests you and you think that you won’t look like a…
It's Time to Wait
It wasn’t because it hurt. I expected it to. It was because when it didn’t, when it felt good, I wished it had been a way of saying “I love you.” And it just…
More Thoughts On Deja Vu
Experiencing deja vu is not always pleasant, especially if the feelings following deja vu are riddled with anxiety and a premature melancholy, knowing, at some…
Sometimes It's Too Much To Ask For
We all have these days where even rolling over in bed seems like a heroic task to conquer, another mountain to climb in the meantime. My dim clock told me it…
Creation Of Man
I’m staring at that wall with that picture hanging neatly above you, trying to recall the feel of the material of the couch that once pressed into the bare…
Have I Said Too Much?
My lungs have grown weary from holding the breath I’ve kept trapped inside them since I bid you farewell and left you to stand alone, shivering, in your…
The Warden's Law
At first, I thought I would sink to my bruised knees upon my return to this wretched place, where the warden holds the keys in her sweaty palms, the cheap beer…
53 More Days
The final countdown has begun, the clocks have started their annoying tick and tock once more, but this time, I am in a certain calm I didn’t have before. I…
Winter of Waiting
softly fallen snow her fingers pressed against glass the soul hibernates a nestled cocoon crocheted and in gentle sleep dreaming, waiting, home flowers and…
And Here's No Greater Matter
Sometimes, I howl in agony in the evening, when the sky is that soft, orange, glow and when the snow falls with a hushed pelting along the sidewalks. The world…
We Only Sleep Because We Feel Tired
We lost about thirty-three percent of our lives to sleep, so what’s another few hours of staying in bed with you, just trying to pass the time?
Terminal
The doctors said it was a virus. I walked in to the office on that Monday afternoon, my purse clutched tightly to my breast, and they sat me down in a sterile…
Someday
With a hearth between my lips and a coal buried in my ribcage, I waited silently on the foothills of the mountain. Surely, he would come soon, or so I’d been…
500 Years
Tic...tock...tic...tock. He stared at the old embellished iron clock on the wall. Was she coming? She had promised that she would in her last letter. His gaze…
Soaked Clothes
Wanda bit her lip as she rubbed her sweaty palms on her pants as she waited on the leather couch in her living room. She could still hear the shower running…
Stationary
Imperceptible motion brings oncoming daylight, in further lightening hues of blue, as though the sky falls to earth at night and must rise again by morning…
Waiting
It’s not that she felt hopeless. She wasn’t even scared. Not really, anyway. It was the waiting that made this so hard. Brad came back in. He wasn’t smiling…
Why Don't You Write Me?
Impatient with the steady clack of hoofbeats on the hard trail I nudged Emily to a trot. I knew the noise would draw Ernesto out to meet me. The look on his…