A distance wind blew in the field, the chill cutting to the bone like a knife. The sun was high in the cloudless, blue sky. Neither the miles of knee high grass nor the multitude of flowers moved against it. They continued to soak in the eternal sun, knowing that for them night would never [...]
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
I looked around the apartment.
My soul was stuck in a bitter turmoil;
For the place looked exactly like I had pictured.
I stared at Derek.
“What are you doing here?”
He asked me. I looked at him and asked
“Shouldn’t that be my question?”
He arched one of his eyebrows.
“I want you to know that when you get home,
Package your things [...]
Categories: Fiction, If only you knew, Poetry, Short Stories
My window faced a red brick building that housed a Vietnamese restaurant on the main floor and apartments, like ours, on the second and third floors. The only view I could get was if I looked up beyond the roof of the building and occasionally see clouds, stars, the edge of the moon at around [...]
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
III
She smiled.
Golden; shinning an endless brilliance
Of happiness. The little hope still stored
In me dropped faster than doubtfulness.
They smiled at each other.
I felt my soul tearing apart because
Those smiles, beautiful and lost to me now-
Were once all mine.
Even though now I can see that his smiles were rather
Cunning and charming and deceiving [...]
Categories: Fiction, Short Stories
Tagged: part 3, the apartment
II
The building looked familiar.
And for the life of me I couldn’t silence the pending notion
Twirling in my head of the building’s importance.
It called me forth; a sultry siren beckoning me forth
My eyes narrowed when I realized this was the apartment
Derek and I had originally planned to buy.
The apartment with counters and cracks
I had touched and [...]
Categories: Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories
Tagged: apartment part 2, series, short story