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*I combined both parts into part one* It was going to be our first house. We had saved for the past five years to put a down payment on the perfect place. It had 3 bedrooms, two bathrooms, a front porch, and a fenced-in backyard. We drove up with a trailer packed with all our belongings, excitement bubbling over as we parked in the driveway ready to start our new lives together. We walked insid…
I have decided to create a new room in order to reconnect with my muse. The title of this blog is what my new room will be called when it is open and will be listed under Interests. "The door is open…leave the ordinary world behind. In this space the ghosts find their voices, shadows turn into stories and the pen will also wander through a new poetic landscape. Take a breath, light a candle and…
When you hold onto grudges You are petty and small You puff yourself up, tear others down You shrink them to make yourself tall You think the world owes you everything You look down on others with disdain You are filled with hate and venom You take pleasure in causing them pain You are insignificant You apparently have no heart Thinking you are so special But we are indeed worlds…
*I put my muse on a time-out but she escaped...another short story* The tension in the house had been building over the past couple of weeks leading up to this moment. Alice had just come home from working another long 12 hour shift at the hospital to find the sink full of dishes yet again. There were empty chip bags and pop cans scattered across the counters and crumbs everywhere. She sighed, a…
Leo approached the cage, the clip board tightly in his grasp. The whimpers suddenly stopped and went from sounding like a wounded animal to that of a child crying. He frantically flipped through the other pages hoping to learn more about what was making the noise. His eyes scanned down as certain words popped out - mimics and influences, reads the mind. Do not be fooled by it. He decides that per…
“You are nothing but a loser” the tallest of the bullies spat out as he shoved Leo hard sending him across the corridor and into the lockers on the other side. Thomas was bigger than most of the other kids in the school and he knew it. Even some of the teachers were afraid to confront him so he got away with torturing the other students and they tolerated his disrespect when he was in class. Leo'…