Tagged: life

Intelligent Short Story 0

The Lot Lizard King

Short Story   The highway glistened with every fat rain drop as the fading sun beamed a bright orange into the cars rearview mirror. Jerry Wells’s vision was as blurry as the passing pines...

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Memorial

Haibun Mandy — dressed in black — welcomes a line of guests. They fill the Suffern Library Meeting room to capacity. Her boys, in their dark suits, sit next to her weary mother on...

emotional poem 0

The Move

Poem   The cardboard flats bend outward, angling Stacked toward ceiling, one upon another Past lives suddenly sorted into kitchen, bathroom, bedroom Like a personality test gone awry, traits of myself Boiled down to...

trapeze poem 0

The Golden Trapeze

Poem Movement humming Cicadas in the trees Peace swinging in the willows Velvet rays beam A golden trapeze Singing across meadows Reflections bending Illusory shadows Hoping for more to see Waiting for novelty Expecting...

spoken word 0

Do It…

Spoken Word Untimely I pray it comes Yet the Grave seems To pop up at the worst times Tapping its watch With a hurrying gesture When you reach The best part of your dreams...

flash fiction story 0

A Waiting Game

Flash Fiction   The valley was magnanimous in it’s apathy. Ancients who had sat and lived in it all their lives could look to new arrivals with the comforting communal certainty that the sparsely wooded...

poem about death 0

Digging to China

Poem   Well I was digging my way to China, shovel and all, hands dirty with the past, with the miles of mud dug, displaced, disposed. I was digging my way to China when my...

space poem 0

The Space

Poem   The space between us Cycling through Invisible and unknown Affecting all that we do Unfolding, changing Numbers reasoning Ignorantly predicting The how, the X The question The connection Possibility, probability The universe’s...

poem about life path 0

Borrowed People

Spoken Word   People walking in borrowed shoes on borrowed ground Will show no difference in the past or future of the universe in my life or another’s. Should I stand directly in the path...

bite poem 0

Bites

Poem Feeling emotions in the tender details They make you feel closer To life To death Hugging them close The sweet memory Being able to see what it means Before leaving your trace The...

post-apocalyptic 0

The Rosebush and The Brier – Part Two

Short Story   The coals hissed as Bobbie threw handfuls of wet sand into the fire pit. “C’mon Williams, get your boots on; we’re heading out.” He popped up from his sleep, remembering the...