"Seeking a break from monotony, Marianne pushes her husband to the brink."
Marianne stood at the window, naked but for the sheet wrapped around her torso, and watched her husband and his friends shoot the breeze beside their pickup trucks in the driveway below.She took another draw on her cigarette. Usually the...
"feelings and fluids"
As far as Trent knew, Jeni was cuddled up in her childhood bed, hugging a defiled Polish sausage like a carnival prize. Not in his wildest dreams would he have imagined his beautiful girlfriend sleeping nude on a buttermilk charmeuse...
"Genevieve considers how she’ll crawl back from her addiction and the resulting depression."
Saturday morning dawned bright and sunny. I rolled over and pulled the covers over my head, not wanting to begin the seemingly endless journey back just yet. I could wait till afternoon to start my climb out of the bottomless...
"An unimaginable betrayal. But why? And what comes next?"
Neither of us spoke at first; I was too stunned, and she too ashamed. Finally, I asked in a raspy voice, “Why?”Her gaze remained steadfastly away from mine. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, Luke. I… He was dying. And I...
"Matt tries coming to terms with a break-up"
Hypocrite. That word is embedded in my fading moments. Until now, I'd rejected the notion of a God or anything existing beyond our mortal plane - That the life we're born into is the only one we'll ever know, and once...
This brings me back,takes me on a journey in the deep recesses of my mindto a time I remember well.And although it tastes the same(like winter)like hot chocolate on a crisp, dark night,feels like the sharp wind whipping at my...
"After a very long road trip I question my mind"
I am tryingbut three days in a carmake my progress seem very farThankfully the seahas come to my rescue again.Salt air and endless ocean views are friendsPatience you continue to showmile after mile day after dayEventually helping me find my...
"a truth in written form..."
Depressed means a broken heartA forgotten dream, a wanted startIt leaves you cold, it leaves you blackIt leaves you full of holes and cracksA chasm new, a pain so oldYou left a hole, my heart's grown coldWhy act happy? Why...
"Night can be the loneliest time"
Waking at three in the morning, my eyesDamp for some reason, I lie silent in the darkListening for the familiar fall and riseOf your soft breathing; but only the starkEmptiness of absence surrounds my frailVacuum. My heartbeat throbs like your...
"I'm fine but some days it's hard to live with the see saw that is my mind"
my soul to use any wordspirals around and I crybacked into a cornerit just wants to flyit loves and hateslonging for spaceto live in peace notrun in circles and raceenvying others liveswatching them spinhappy and contentwhy is my skin so...
