Fiction
“Fatherland”
And as long as men are swayed by their hearts and stomachs and not their heads the Chief Nangas of this world will continue to…
Category: Fiction
Fiction
Growth in Dark Times
Change is constant, so they say. I’ve been taught to expect change and to evolve as a person, but there are some changes in my…
Fiction
The Price
“I will kill you today!” He yelled after administering another slap on my face and moved to lock the door. I wondered what must have…
Fiction
Tuning Out of a Dark Tunnel
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow STANZA I As I write this, I…
Fiction
The Smile
For the first time since I was folded in my sleep, I noticed dawn smelled of burning wood. Flipping myself like a turtle’s shell on…
Fiction
The Eraser
I talk to myself a lot. My parents find it strange when they walk in on me, but we always end up having a good…
Fiction
Love Came to Me Soft and Stuffed
Life was a big circus to me. Everything was still beginning. You know that phase in your life when you had not a teeny-weeny care…
Fiction
In the Beginning Was Darkness
Click! That’s the last sound I hear before the world goes dark. I’m crouched beside my fallen mother. My father towers above us like bent…