When he pulled up his Honda Civic in the village, he noticed that there seemed to be an air of trepidation, of suspicion. It would not have surprised him if the locals were watching him from behind their curtains. Especially with him being a total strange...
If you could, you would see deserted streets, buildings, and whole towns. Cars stopped and rusting along unused roads. Nature was reclaiming the world, one that got a science lesson. Regardless of your religious beliefs, the lesson proved evolution to b...
Rick and Martha drove up to the hilltop that they frequently used to go to in the days from when they were courting. It had usually been quite dark and mild on nights when they would have gone up there all those years ago as it also is on this particular...
I took up gardening somewhat recently. The first reason being, we get such glorious summers where I live on the East Coast, and I decided that I wanted to spend more time outside. Where I am, the summers are long, hot, and dry. So long, in fact, that we d...
There is an image looking over your shoulder. Don't fall asleep. Not now, not too soon. Not before your season comes again. The sleeping season. Another time may free you of the mystery and you may sail, sail away. How odd, how strange. If you wish to s...
You think Christmas is only for children? That's what old Jim Hadfield thought too and as he was to discover, it is simply a matter of never losing sight of what Christmas intrinsically means and what magic exists still, in those remote pl...
There is a certain vagueness, a feeling of ‘not being there’ that is heavily associated with dreaming, whether that be daydreaming or night-time dreaming or even with nightmares; you know that feeling, you’ve experienced it yourself. It comes more so in t...
The fact that she is here with me is grandand now I call her what she has becomebecause it simply is the way I thinkabout her now as we grow closer still. It may not be the way I chose to callher once upon a time but now I findthat this is how I'll alway...
Even if other arms claim you in lust,even if the trace of your passionsstill lingers in other beds, other rooms,in cities lost in labyrinths of memory...Even it the portals of your playful hearthave opened to multiple affections,stories fueled by pain and...
Gail's first day at this new department in the Foreign Office was an uneventful day that did not come as any surprise to her. She had seen a lot of ministerial and government departments before. She had been seconded, from the Home Office where she had be...
There you go - feeling guilty again, fearing what you may have said or done. Guilt is nothing more than a sign of a beauty within, for only beautiful people suffer the burden of guilt. Only the kind possess it. Only the thoughtful carry it. Only the c...
Amazing and beautiful sisters I’ve found. Cross generations and continents abound. Newly found kin from yesterday and today. Welcome and comfort in a heartfelt way. Voices bringing sisters back to the light. Gone but not forgotten makes the journey fe...
For Betsy We are strangers, but remarkably familiar. We are separated, but strangely connected. We are parallel lives, that once were as one. Finally reconnected after wasted years apart. In all that time, nothing more than a photo. A beautiful youn...
The days grow short, your time runs out but lovewill never die. You simply must acceptthat it has come to you once more. Acceptthe way you have so many times before. You know that it is true; just look at themand realize the honesty they smile. They smile...
I glance at my swollen belly, disgustingly wet from the sweating, while sitting on the creaking chair in this awful tavern. My old and weak hands are holding a pint of warm beer, barely enlightened by a feeble light coming from a small lamp hanging just...
