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Stories Poems Essays

sunset

Remember that time?

I remember. Finding you, there seeing you lay so still The air itself dared not to disturb. your frail body, So still…”

Goodwill

Fight in the Goodwill

The window display in the Goodwill relied on an imaginative employee. Sometimes washed, occasionally smokey, and…

blue butterfly

Wanderlust

Awais had a great thirst for adventure. During his college days he toured several places with his classmates in a college bus.

Tricycle

The Comfort of Strangers

It was me who dropped the box of Band-Aids into the toilet. None of us wanted to admit it, but Ben and Jimmy had had nothing to confess.

Tree in Kenya in the sunset

Prepared

Outside, the hot August sun branded everything in its path, seeking out every cleft and angle. But not here. Room 263 of the Samaritan Home was…

Sad woman in the sunset disappearing

I See You

Ex-husband with new woman; This one counts. Words of admiration Roll off his well-kissed lips. He gushes her accomplishments. We’ve been here before.

parakeets

Swallowed

When we made love, I thought of nothing but the parakeets. They were four floors below in Samantha’s study. I feared they were starving.

Amsterdam

Courage and Choice

A wise old art dealer in Amsterdam liked to tell a particular story, over appelflappen and coffee, of when he was not so old and not so wise.

Doctor

DR. NO RKVRY?

Writer works to get under skin, doc rushes through gore he bathes within… Shrieking from someone else’s…