The Raggedy Boy

"He looked like a hopeless wreck of a boy, but underneath there was so much more…"

Richie was sitting alone in the atrium, as he always did, doing homework. He was dressed, as he always was, in rag-bag clothes: a shapeless, purplish shirt, battered, stained slacks that were a couple of inches too short, and an...

Back To The Ex

"Trying to get your clothes back from your ex-boyfriend can be difficult."

"I'm here for my hoodie."His ex-girlfriend glares at him from the doorstep, all 5'6 of her. Dark eyes glower beneath a blue-dyed pixie cut.With a smile, he welcomes her inside and she brushes past him in a gust of lavender...

Tenement 2J: City Air Makes You Free

"A young woman living in a lower class tenement building finds something new."

Stadtluft macht frei, the words of the older man reverberated through Abigail’s head as they had done countless times, but today they meant more. Stadtluft macht frei, according to the old man, it was a law from medieval Germany, where...

As I Was Always Supposed to Be

"I have found myself in the shadows"

I’ve looked for myself since I can remember.When I met my ex I thought I'd found myself in him, but I was delusional.One night, in that moment in which you are asleep but you can feel all the happenings around...