Tall towers rising above me, from the cold ground, standing against the elements. I’m alone in a strange world surrounded by strangers with their own ways of seeing me. I hold back tears of years of torment. Did I love him or just need him, need to love him? We […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Gay bar, no car, music and alcohol, restroom but no stall. Moments gathered like memory scrapbooking. Old men, eager to know me, hold me, drain me and leave me as though they never knew me. Gay bar, restroom, he keeps going though I’m not into it, people coming and going […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Blossom (The Writer magazine word of the day, 28-day word challenge) Spring, sprung, hung, sung a karaoke song in a bar as he watched me. My flower, late hour, no power, his need, his want, resistance, distance lost, legs tight against aggression, fueled my depression. Time gathering, A shift in […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
He spoke softly in my ear as I found him ready and willing. His lips pressed against my neck as I could feel him pressing into me. His eagerness pressed into me. Our lips meet as our hands move about, freeing ourselves from the captivity of clothing. If a moment […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
An elderly man sits at a counter of an aging diner sipping slowly from his black coffee and every so often a bite from a glazed donut. He never looks up as the snow blankets the remnants of a once bustling town. The exhausted woman behind the counter hears the […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Spark (The Writer magazine word of the day, 28-day word challenge) It started off real, it started off strange, hearing voices in the dark, hearing voices In my head as the words said to me float above me like a fog. A spark catches fire to the past as I […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
A record plays as we set the stage for a tale as old as tales told around camp fire. A boy searching for his estranged father. A boy with a dream to sing and an older man on the verge of destroying an illustrious singing career. These two now separate […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Tension: (The Writer magazine word of the day, 28-day word challenge) The clock keeps staring me down like it’s a competition we’re in, life is a battle we fight with the hands of time ticking down. The end is but a pause but the pause makes me have bad dreams […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
I woke with a bitter taste and I woke from a dream that haunts my waking hours. I follow the trail of memories back to a time I never thought things would change so drastically. Time is drifting like sand through my fingers. Please continue reading this blog on my […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
The dim light fading to reveal stars shinning, sun changing the blues to purples now to black. Looking out from within a glass bottle I see the scars that have left you afraid to be yourself. In my mind time is forever and the valleys are deeper than… Please continue […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Letters like time drifting through my mind. Each reminds me of another reason why I keep writing the letters that create time and an illusion of a world formed in my mind as I seek words to rhyme with time like the dime spinning on its edge. Please continue reading […]
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I want to start something new but my feet won’t move from fear of falling on my face. I’ve never had so much doubt about my abilities and talents. Stress is making me not want to do anything. I’ll keep struggling and trying to do more with my life but […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
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