View the world through an unfiltered lens, and wait for the right situation to develop. I pull off to the shoulder side on the long road of life, and reach into the back seat for a little black bag. Its memory making contents are pulled from their compartments, and the blinding caps are removed. Through [...]
Pt. 1 – Charlie Pt. 2 – … goes to Canada, sort of Pt. 3 – … and the Big Blue Ox Pt. 4 – … and the Big Blue Ox pt. II Charlie looked down at the shiny face clasped around his wrist, and squinted his blue eyes against the circular, blinding glare that [...]
Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water, Yet nothing can better overcome the hard and strong, For they can neither control nor do away with it. – Lao Tzu
Humid, thick, the air is heavy inside an air-conditioned airport. My black suitcase rolls behind me and my shoulder carries the weight of everything else I couldn’t fit, but have to bring along. The other travelers are all around me, scurrying about from boards to boarding, pulling behind them suitcases much like mine. Ticket counters [...]
During a time of economic depression, an industry that had brought them life and love was beginning to fade away. To survive, difficult fiscal decisions were being made daily, but nothing had happened quickly enough to rebound their failing economy, drastic measures had to be taken. Operation Bigfoot began when the lights went out in [...]
Creativity tips and a pencil hits a pad, Originality spills and spews itself into existence across a blank page. Dream to shock the world with electric words, Capably strong in their conduction to restore flat lines to life. Coagulated pools that refuse to always bleed in unison, These clots increase the pressure to confide. Until [...]
Everyone gave their best but no one could remove the rider’s block from the middle of the road. It blocked the town from the cemetery, clogged the only artery unto death. This was an event some might think to be a trivial matter, but the town had dead to bury, winter had come. The earth [...]
Pretty reaps disaster and finds her way back inside her pills. Her frown is swallowed into laughter, and Pretty’s crown is thorns. Her farewell smile dissolves her parent’s doubt, She’s well, yet all but living, asphyxiated from the world. Twisted and tattered, She is tortured and tempted, Pretty’s thinking ugly thoughts.
Read Charlie Chapter 1 Read Charlie Chapter 2 Read Charlie Chapter 3 When the skyline began to glow like the color of the sun, Charlie felt it time to carry out his plan. He searched for the right spot and picked a place below Babe’s ear. Craned and bent, laid out belly-flat along the sloping [...]
Johnny went to grab his shotgun but found nothing there, someone else was in the house. Instead, he went to the kitchen and reached for a blade; gripping the handle, he pulled the largest knife from its place on a wooden block, then started for the stairs. He didn’t see anything thing out of place, [...]