One day, in my late twenties, I seem to have misplaced something. I didn’t notice it at first But when I did I went looking for it, I went to the window by the mountain I wanted to shout for…
View writing“You don’t know what it is to live with anxiety,” she said. “The kind of anxiety I mean, is like an angry goblin that takes all my willpower to hold down.” “You’re right; I don’t know,” I replied. I meant…
View writing(Note: used this prompt for some revising) Chapter 2 Facts according to Olivia Song: #1: Running two restaurants in LA is barely organized chaos. #2: Opening a third is insanity. #3: Checklists = survival Family dinners were always on Mondays…
View writingShe never asked to be an assassin. Never asked to be given a life of eternal hiding and forever-lasting disappearing. It was just what was expected of the children in her family: to follow in the footsteps, to keep the…
View writingGira sighed dispassionately gazing at the empty baggage carousel. It had been forty-five minutes since she'd landed at LAX, and there wasn't a bag in sight. Nor was there a person who could help. This was the cognitive dissonance she…
View writing“From you I wanted more than I ever asked.” He stared at her, eyes unflinching for almost the count of thirty, letting those words sink in. She reached for a cigarette, held it for a moment, posed with it. “Really.”…
View writingConverse Chuck Taylor All Stars. The first and definitive basketball shoe. In the late 50's they were the only basketball shoe. A canvas high top or low shoe with a checkerd sole that gripped well on hardwood. They were worn…
View writingDear johnny, I am so sorry. I cannot be with you now. We will only be apart for a short time. I'm returning to Germany so that I can bring your grandparents and my sister and her children back to…
View writingLeslie had purchased, more likely bartered for, one of the dogs when it was still a pup. She named her “Omaha” after the dim, nostalgia- coated memories of the town she had spent her first five years in. Omaha, now…
View writingWhen Pearl was ten, she felt her father watching her with eyes of desire. She felt at times proud of his gaze as if she had earned a kind of affection that he withheld from her mother. She was stronger,…
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