She nagged, she nagged, she nagged. She was nagging so much it made his eyes twitch with uncomfortable social pain and she wasn’t even his Mother. Even though he felt discomfort, he knew the girl was more uncomfortable than he. He was sure she didn’t want to sit next to her [...]
The Old Boy had been laid to rest around this time last year. His shallow grave was covered with rocks to cover the fact of his decomposition. When one goes about burying a body without a box to hold the remains, decomposition happens at an accelerated rate. This lack of an enclosure [...]
Dear Little Boy,
Happy Birthday little man. I can’t believe it’s already been a year. You’ve become so smart and introspective in this time. You’ve helped me to grow and to share. You’ve helped to make me a better person. I thank you for that.
Here’s a card from Daddy. When [...]
“Laters,” he said as he lingered at the window.
Her eyes looked moist, but he knew it was only the reflection from the TV, which was playing a VHS copy of “Faces of Death,” she had rented for him. It was hard to believe that only an hour ago he had been trying to pull [...]
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A shadow war in Pakistan
A forgotten war in Afghanistan
Iran is next
Palestine is always under fire
Northern Ireland too
Africa (if the country is rich in resources)
Iraq… still, after 7 years (in a way it has been 17 years)
Can we see the shadows we cast without the power of the Sun behind our motives? Sure we can, [...]
How can something so basic be so complicated at the same time?
Man and Woman meet. They both think the other is amazing. Commonalities abound. Intense “like” emerges, nothing like love, but attraction, interest, enjoyment and anxiety waiting for the next time they spoke. They live 1,100 miles from one another. [...]
Meet one of my roommates, Ava. She doesn’t like very many people. She likes my Sister, my Dad, and me. That’s about it. She also likes getting into trouble.
Friday Evening at around 2:00AM, I find myself walking down Delancy St in the Lower East Side with a See by Chloe purse slung over my shoulder and a smaller dark blue leather handbag clutched in my palm. I also have three scarves draped around my neck. Not that it is that cold outside; I [...]