She looks beyond the fire to the flat surface of the lake. There is little in the way of moon and stars tonight, but lights from the lodge on the opposite shore glimmer on the water’s skin. In her eyes, the dancing amber flames ripple.
Read More I Should Have Asked Sooner – by Gabby GilliamThe final pic, October 31st, has the caption “He’ll be the death of me.” The photo is a close-up of Stephanie’s face.
Read More Her Best Friend’s Guy – by N.E. RuleListening to Morgan playing through her pieces, I began to feel that familiar jealousy creepy into my stomach.
Read More Avocados and Ambulances – by Sarah Elise PettigrewShe looks beyond the fire to the flat surface of the lake. There is little in the way of moon and stars tonight, but lights from the lodge on the opposite shore glimmer on the water’s skin. In her eyes, the dancing amber flames ripple.
Read More Split – by Jay McKenzie“We saw you look,” the girls’ voices echo in my head as I run out of school, all the way home, panting and crying by the time I reach the front door and, “Boys don’t go to dances with fat girls,” my dad tells me.
Read More The Weight of My Own Voice – by Finnian BurnettListening to Morgan playing through her pieces, I began to feel that familiar jealousy creepy into my stomach.
Read More Don’t Be A Beethoven – by Allie GuildersonWhen I was fourteen—no, thirteen (gee, maybe even earlier?), the chronic pain began.
Read More Upstream – by Ramona EloiseThese calloused fingers built the house
In which your ungrateful soul resides
These calloused fingers built the house
In which your ungrateful soul resides
It smells of old, forgotten things:
damp earth long buried, decanted
Read More Defective and Suspect- by Gerry Stefanson aka The Wordbutcher
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