"Gonna shoot at the park today, Kis?""Yep""Meet me at that little creek you like.""Ah, okay. 8:30?""Then."I was early, but she was earlier. I found her behind some tangled bushes, naked on a blanket, leaning against a big tree. She's humming,...

Octet

"In the mountains two quartets discover the wonder of same-sex love"

 I don't care what they say; there's no better way to be intimate with three other people than to join a string quartet.Just how intimate I didn't find out till three years out of college.We'd met at the academy. I (Melissa) and...

Flourished

"Ends with a bang. Literally."

Friends we professed. Cultivated without sound as each was devoted to another. Turfed emotions. We strolled to the field blanketed with blooms of recollection. Secluded.Buddies hobbying together. Hours spent harvesting. Reaping. Narrating our collaborated tale. Keying hammers into ribbon, impressing letters...

Such odd flowers, writhing like stormy clouds until nectar glistens. Still, though spoilt we lie, shadowed and mangled beneath them, a beautiful color of petal they have: sunset and sunrise blushed with dew.Our color!But Mother Gaia, what flower drops its...

Traditional is best.

"A girl, a guy, some old tech."

"A typewriter? Who brings a fucking typewriter out into the middle of a field?And it's a Smith Corona. Probably infected. I'm staying away from you." His questioning tone had devolved into incoherent grumbling as he made to rise.  But she was...

Marian’s Garden part 1: The Forest Floor

"Jack and Marian work in the garden of their new dream home, deep in the pacific northwest."

Jack and I are working in the garden today. It’s so beautiful and such a relief to finally have our own place. Our own real place with land. It’s just a couple of acres, but between the trees and underbrush,...