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7 Dec 2019 2 minute read 5 comments blueeyes8960
Source It was raining. Ugh. I watched the rivulets run down the classroom window and felt that familiar tightening in my gut. After the last bell, I closed my locker and headed for the buses lined up like a trail of yellow caterpillars in front...
29 Nov 2019 1 minute read 0 comments efleischer
Admiral Akbar’s traps were humane — could catch both squirrels and planets. Here was Akbar in the woods, down on one knee, his voice gently scraping along the edges of David Attenborough hues, placing a cracker with a bit of peanut butter on it in th...
25 Nov 2019 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Rosaline turned off her phone, fell her face down on the bed, her dense black hair scattered over a pillow and broke into tears. Her heart was broken. Her boyfriend Jim, a person whom she gave all of her heart, mind, and body, betrayed her with anoth...
22 Nov 2019 2 minute read 0 comments blueeyes8960
My own photo taken with Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Janie spread the blanket on the lush hilltop beneath the majestic oak tree. It felt so good to be out enjoying one of the first really warm days in late spring. Forrest barked and sniffed his way around...
12 Nov 2019 4 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf
I have felt uncomfortable posting this story because I don't wish to disrespect or upset anyone who has been through gender reassignment or is part of the wonderful trans community that is growing and hopefully becoming more and more accepted by t...
12 Nov 2019 9 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf
ANGELINE, THE TALE CONTINUES Preface Angeline is a character I have been writing for some years. She is, in many respects a contemporary femme fatale, the story in my last post being that of her childhood, about the lies and tragedy and abuse of...
12 Nov 2019 11 minute read 0 comments (S)llew la Wulf
Angeline I am adrift in this world. Propped up by caricature and vice but alone nonetheless. Shards of light intermittently pierce this darkly lit space but they are too few and far between to be held up as examples of an alternative way o...
9 Nov 2019 4 minute read 0 comments JaiChai
From the Author: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, places or events is purely coincidental. (Yeah right. And shaking a plate of jello doesn't resemble a fat hooker on a cold night?) Prologue "Any questions?" Yu said...
3 Nov 2019 3 minute read 2 comments blueeyes8960
source I’m lying here on my favorite pillows waiting for my human, who calls himself Skip, to come home. I know he doesn’t want me up on the furniture, but I’ll know as soon as he pulls in the driveway, plenty of time to get down and lie on the ru...
25 Oct 2019 3 minute read 4 comments blueeyes8960
From the grimy upstairs window across the street, I could see the whole block on both sides of the red door. Three days into my stakeout and I hadn’t seen a single person come in or out of that door, let alone our missing informant, Hugo. The coffee...
