I miss you. I miss the feel of your scales, the coarseness of your fur, the tease of your claws, the scrape of your fangs against my skin. At night, I dream we’re still together: in your castle, in your coffin, in your dark lake waters. Just us, without the world to judge. I dream […]
I’ve never given a crap about cars. Just never been one of those guys, you know? Pops spent half his life away from his wives and tearing through engines, elbow deep in grease and antifreeze. He went through wives the way most people go through wrenches and it always left a bad taste in my […]
Nemi sat on her hut’s woven straw floor, peeling purple skins from shea nuts then dropping them into a bowl. Her bony, gnarled fingers, drenched in purple like withered lavender flowers, struggled with the pearl-sized fruits. Each naked shea clanked into the bowl, a sound like a raindrop on a roof’s straw. Glass mourning beads, […]
I like quotes. www.brainyquote.com is one of my favorite sites. This month I typed in ‘change’ in honor of this month’s stories. I found this that fits at least two of them quite nicely: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ~Viktor E. Frankl In “Anywhere […]