For his 80th birthday he had decided to go on a vacation he had never been to before. He packed his bag with only inf...
"Come here often, do you?" The old man said. He was sitting on the iron bench waiting, like me, for the bus. His cl...
He exited the train at Buenos Aires.
He walked into a blizzard. The wind had a life of its own, throwing the shards of snow like throwing knifes into his ...
He exited the train at buenos aires the sunlight hit his pale skin. The woman were all together in a group conversati...
He exited the train at Buenos Aires. That was as far as his ticket would take him. He wandered around the city for a ...
Mark rolled his black wheelchair into the school cafeteria, casting furtive glances at those around him as he admired...
Cute Cute and smiling If only she could have held it, forever Then she would have been...useful? what she was meant...
Her first Christmas back at home was a terrifying event. Someone named Aunt Martha kept hugging her, crying. She said...
Her mind was wrapped around the character sitting next to her. He reeked of sex and alcohol she was told at a young a...
The old lady was in real trouble now. She did not feel the grey touch of the dark hand as it stroked her wrinkled fac...
A tattoo of a shadow remains when the light recedes. Mock the sun, then, and ridicule the clouds. They've always see...
Travel light, but take everything with you.
I look at the glistening gold clock hung onto the station wall. Time is ticking. So slowly I feel that time has froze...
This note. This one note. This small little ticket of joy, was my way out of here. Out of this dump. Where flies cons...
"Travel light, but take everything with you," he said, his sky eyes looking off into the distance, "you never know wh...
In the little house, Brigid waited for the big lady to leave. She wanted peace, and the special sound of wind when no...
She bent down to tie her shoe as the sun was setting. The reflection of the pinkish-yellow ball was right in front of...
I sat near the stall where they sold jade jewelry, waiting for Hestan to finish buying a years worth of magnolia tea ...
It would be a long walk. To no where. Ending some where. A where long off. Tulle of mist. Footage of stage. A wide gl...
Jayne was glad to escape the chemical smell of the dentists surgery. She held her little brothers hand tight as he co...
I walked across the field, staring at the animals that surrounded me. The bare skin on my feet felt strange against t...
Pension
He searched through the records, long dusky fingers flipping rapidly through file after file in the Archives. He kept...
Maurice looked at the empty mailbox and sighed. His pension was supposed to be delivered today; first of the month,...
I remember my Nans pension book. The smell of the paper and the ink. I would hold it to my nose as I walked to the po...
The day after tomorrow, this will all be over.
The day after tomorrow, this will be all over. The waiting, the anxiety, the impatience will end. I have paced my roo...
Martin Adams began to type. He wasn't sure what to say; a fact that the repeated DELETES and EDITS made clear. Love l...
The day after tomorrow, this will all be over. End of the world according to the Mayan predictions. It didn't seem wo...
They were trapped for seven days.
They were trapped for seven days. Faced with a myriad of uncertainties, this much Antonius knew to be true. The pangs...
They were trapped for seven days. Aleena tried to hold back the tears as it had been seven days since she had seen th...
They were trapped for seven days. And all he could think about was how stupid and incompetent everyone was. Oh, he c...