Tag «Story»

A Paper Love

Every night my lover builds a home inside of me. A home for us to dream endlessly. Inside this home there is a limitless space for laughter… a space for us to fill with air. A timeless space for us to grow older. He made me paper dreams. Paper dreams for paper houses. Papers houses …

My Bag of Rice – Things That are True pt7

Sometimes God’s miraculous provision… is rice. The world crashes in.  It’s that moment when we’re at the very end of every resource. Most recently for me, it was this very real situation:  no gas in the tank with meetings all over the city, no food left in the house, no dogfood for the pup, no …

Summertime

Summertime Follies with wind running rampant through my hair. It conjures up memories of the past. The past when grams sat under the catalpa tree sipping her fresh brewed iced tea and talking about the depression era. It begs the soul to ask things of itself that only I could possibly know or would that …

A Salty River – She is Mine

*Readers Note – Contains Adult Situations* The sun is running through my veins; drying my blood and pulling me to the edge of death; well, this is how I feel when she looks at me through her hooded eyes. I can smell her from here; the scent of her skin brings back summer to my frozen …

Note

Readers Note – Piece Contains Triggering Language: Suicide Whether I clutch my creation too tightly or it clutches me there will be no suicide today the note will go into recycling and be made into newspaper that will tell other stories as unimportant and no one will ever know reflecting on this I return a …

Two Lil Souls – (Thank You Brother)

Once upon a time there were two lil souls sitting on the edge of a cloud. The first one said, “Let’s have some fun! Let’s go! Let’s play on the ground!” The second one said, “I’m worried. I’m scared.” The first replied, “I’ll keep you safe.” The second one said, “I dunno. It looks hard.” …

Truth

Truth is a scary thing.  It comes in so many forms, and voices.  It shows up at the most inopportune time and often uninvited.  It can leave a taste in your mouth and a memory in your mind that can last a lifetime.  We all say that we value the truth, but if the truth …