Short stories & poems for everyone from everyone
Poem Elocute, eloquent Elephant Confess consciously; cry courageously. Please, pachyderm, pardon Our orders, obliging obedience. We want what’s warranted For full finality. Absolve, abject Aardvark. Forgive fully; find forbearance. Mind, mammal, motive- Simple...
Serial Fiction “That’s creepy.” Maura thought the same thing. Well, actually, at first she thought that she was crazy. But then she realized that the ‘incident’ was so in keeping with the rest...
Poem It only took me half a lifetime, To realize the truths behind the clichés. Things we say every day, but don’t really believe. Things that we must experience to understand. This can...
Serial Story That night I cried. Really cried for the first time in years. Let all the sadness, anger, frustration and fear flow from my eyes and my mouth, as I wept and gasped...
Serial Fiction I shivered; why is it always overcast and chilly for a burial? The sea of solemn faces at the graveside braced against the cutting wind, and still-closed umbrellas were clutched in...
Short Story “What happened?” She rubbed her forehead and sighed. What HAD happened? It had seemed like a perfectly innocuous evening… Sprawled on the floor, with yarn, glue and glitter around her, Maura...
Modern Fable “What sort of things would you say to yourself?” She smiled wryly. She’d been aware of her inner monologue for so long that it was like remembering the meeting of an...
Short Story “Is there a way you could avoid triggers?” She had to admit, that sometimes…she could. For example, scary movies, even the lamest kind, dropped silently into her bloodstream like food color...
American Poems Signal I hide in my eyes made of glitter, made of lies I hide in my house of cards. I hide from the fact that you’re never going see me Bleeding...
Psychological Short Stories She looked up. Her hands clenched in her lap, and her pale eyes grew dark and stormy. She swallowed deliberately, then whispered, “Everything.” Chapter 1 Therapy. It was a concept...
Serial Fiction I realized, after I blew the first stop sign, that I was driving distractedly. I caught a glimpse of a patrol car crouched by the roadside and slowed down. But I...
