At 18, Agatha was a wife. At 22, she was a widow. The stabbing pain of that loss engulfed her. It was her mother who threw open the windows of her room and demanded that she leave her bed. "Where…

Smitty smelled bad. Was it that red wine he was drinking or was it something else.. They were on the same basketball team. Smitty was in the Marine Corps, he was a lance corporal. I was in the Navy. We…

some rewrite from yesterday and then move on I’d never been pregnant before, I was two weeks late by the time I realized that I might be. I had Keith buy a test at CVS. Abortion care was already illegal…

[fiction, exercise] She wakes up and remembers: today is not like any other day. It's her 54th birthday! 54. Not 55, not a milestone like 50 or 60 or 100. She lays in bed, thinking, when I was 24, 34,…

I won’t say- I can’t say - I still feel like a teenager…..no, I’ve earned my aches, pains and wrinkles and am somehow proud of them because they are markers of a life long lived and of adventures worth having.…

I pressed Casserly’s number. He answered on the first ring. “Hayduke isn’t coming.” “I know.” “He called you?” “It’s protocol. Tomorrow or the next day isn’t an option?” “Not unless I also want to blow up five-thousand baby pigs.” “And…

Captain's Log 31st December, in the year of our Lord 1633 The harsh rays of the sun beat down on us on this, the last day of the year. Despite the harsh conditions, the crew are in good spirits. Fair…

[A bit of writing, fiction, just exercise] She doesn't believe in religion. But she's perfectly happy believing in a higher power, likes the idea of fate, that angels are watching over her. Which is why when an angel comes to…

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Leave the questions behind you. Everyone thinks they have the answers. But no one does. Really. We’re all trying to figure it out. And if anyone tells you they know how you need to breathe stand speak decide, don’t believe…

NOTE: this is off topic, a rewrite of a longer story I'm working one. But this is the beginning of it This isn’t where we started out, Keith and I. We started out at the other end of this great…