He kissed her taste of mistletoe, candied sugar of her lips, as warmth of the spirit took its hold in heart and expanding out. After kiss, they smiled, radiant through meek. She held his hand as body turned and, with other hand, she refined final details to scene’s array. Party came. Party […]
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FOOT-FAULT
“Don’t be afraid to fail! It’s the only way that you get better!” my daughter’s coach shouts to her from side of court. Volleyball game, my daughter serves. She’s winning point after point, but the team they’re playing is far from the toughest they will face, and while hitting target places on the […]
Short Story
HAPPY PLACE
He tended hearth, enkindling flame in soft build from night ash and embers. Beginning with small strips of wood splintered from ax split and maul on inner burls and branch-interrupted grain, he stirred the ash to find the glow, arranging wood upon, and then breathing life as blow until fire’s take. Larger pieces upon […]
Short Story
NIGHT SPIRIT
In cold of night near to autumn’s last, she sat on patio beside fire of piped gas and not of wood. Still, it was nice to be near to the warmth, near to its light and the close of him beside. In fine stemmed glass that flared above, she stirred her drink with […]
Short Story
THINKING AWAY
“The stories are coming in a vein different from what I’m used,” he spoke. “You’re allowed and free to change,” she affirmed. “I worry what others might think.” “Great thing, almost nobody cares; and the few that do—it’s because they want to know […]
Quick Thought
WHAT DO YOU DO?
What do you do when your soul wants to shout, to scream that it exists in bare of all its ugliness, truths, and beauty? Do you give it voice, or quiet away—killing spirit once and for all in last desperate for expression? What do you do? Allow scream to express in […]
Short Story
AWAITED
Redbud branch showed in frost’s cover, white-silver of lawn the same. In lavender and lilac sky, peach-tone of tone colored in brush-stroke of heat to morning’s meek, In the room, still covered in night-dressing of white, she gazed upon the glowing change; thoughts going into distance of seasons and a place before restoring to […]
Short Story
PLEASURE INNOCENCE
He smiled on innocence sight of her in pleasured find, in hold to piece of art in hand and framed in golden bound. She rested in pose admiring gift, high body tall and straight, her legs bend, lap’s form in forward spread of thighs with feet and shins in fold beneath. She was […]
Short Story
IN THE HOPE
“How do you know you’ve made a friend?” he asked. She smiled as they walked musing airily on the question. “Behave as if you have,” she answered. “Give. Share. Show. Be vulnerable. Be open. Express what it is you want known and to say. Offer. Give,” she said again. “If you’ve made […]