I spent most of my life unhappy with who I was. Mostly it was that I weighed too much, even though I was just overweight, but that wasn't all of it. I am biracial and unconsciously wanted to look like…

The dawn broke. The new boys crept from the mud. They scrambled to the barb wire. The met the men who had cycled through the trenches since September. They were no longer boys. The Leutnant gave the order. They bolted…

no one could understand what the Talon wanted. They came, they took, and when they left everyone was gone. No one knew where.

You weren’t there. Food, shelter, clothing you provided, the best you could afford, better than what you lacked. But you weren’t there for afterschool pickup whether because my English was mere babbling to you, or you couldn’t hear over the…

I forgot silence The battle of the Marne was fought in September. The Imperial Army dashed into France. They advanced so rapidly their supplies failed to keep pace. The men, like living scarecrows marched with hay falling from their boots.…

Peony did as Violet instructed and bowed to the council, then turned and bowed to all the "immortals" sitting in the terraced seats that stepped down to the silver pool where she now stood, their jewels glinted and shined from…

I decided to have my house painted a few months ago. I love the cobalt blue color of my house so I wanted it the same color. My small house was built in 1885 in what is called a Victorian…

NOTE: Thanks for your questions about this, I revised it to (I hope) reveal more emotion. Hope you don't mind reading a revised version of yesterday's prompt... My husband Kenji and I live outside of San Francisco in a very…

Most of us don’t even begin to know what shapes our lives. I mean...really...we think we do know, especially if we are the sort of person who engages in exploration and good healthy psychotherapy with gifted therapists, then we really…