She leapt through age, even as she knew tip-toeing was the more logical approach. The skies bled their failure in cold hues when she saw them, never in the vibrant pallet of her youth, but in lovely melancholic blues and she wondered if that’s why they called it the blues. Somewhere in the alleys of […]
Read MoreJust another set of numbers. Simply another statistic. Another greeting card’s failure and another promise abandoned. In the great gulf between reason and knowing, what’s this casualty but a hiccup on our short hop through such grand drama? And what a fine bit of memorization these days were, because it’s easy to do right? Pay […]
Read MoreCalvin always argued to never think of today. He just kept looking forward, to not just tomorrow, but next month, next year, the next ten years. He planned and executed. He saved. Days were rungs of a ladder and the top was in constant view, his green eyes gleaming as he spoke about each step […]
Read MoreLuanne had seen enough. Fortunately, Jesse and Chuck appeared to be done with their fight, and after Jesse’s nose busted under Chuck’s boot, both men were laying on Luanne’s front lawn. This was what she’d wanted. Two flailing lovers duking it out before her to prove their worth. The thought had warmed the inside of […]
Read MoreOut on the street there was a shout and a crash, as if something large and metal had fallen from the sky; spied as incoming moments before by someone standing too close. Erin sat up quickly from her bed, a swirl of dizziness playing with her head, then swiftly moved to her window, her heart […]
Read MoreExpectation is the death of happiness. Nothing’s predictable, and the notion of designing a future in pitch black is the naive rumination of hopeless romance, a seed sprouting in a sunless room, nursed only by a desert basin’s drip of water. Devil’s Ivy! Nomenclature awarded through practice as anguished belief twists roots in the rich […]
Read MoreWhen you were a child, they taught you to love big, to stretch your arms for a wide embrace and believe in another. The mothers found the fathers, and so there were children born in days of promise, when glass seas reflected doting Godlight and clear days afforded views of comfortable tomorrows. It was […]
Read MoreCarol and Bruce had said all they could say. The day was expiring the same way their words had; quietly, but with a kind of ferocious inevitability that spread like hungry fire across the cloud-bruised sky. Carol looked up often, noting to herself how the gray had exploded into rich orange above the sea, their […]
Read MoreWhen she’d wandered out into the rolling green of McClellan’s Glen, Sarah had no need for anything but the box, the shoes on her feet, and the light blue windbreaker she’d inherited from her sister as the cancer took hold. They were of course the same size, but months before she died, Laura had lost […]
Read MoreThe dawn chorus shrilly beat back the blanket of sleep, and ruby sat waiting. Ruby sat wanting. Blades of morning sun sliced through birdsong, and ruby sat waiting. Ruby sat wanting. The humid air was queasy with vinegar woe, and ruby sat waiting. Ruby sat wanting. The rain threatened but never did come, and ruby […]
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