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Fiction: Days Off (662 words)
Fiction: Days Off (662 words)
A little bird chirped outside the window, and Crissa all but sprung out of bed. It was spring. There was the smell of flowers on the wind. And she had a free day today. It was going to be a good day. She slid on her slippers at the side of her bed, and spun herself over to the cupboard, swinging the doors open wide. On one side, there were the bright blue robes of the sisterhood, what she…
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Post-Election Opinions
I've always got a lot of opinions after elections. Here are today's thoughts.
I always feel a little sick the day after election day. It doesn’t matter if the candidates I voted for won or lost (this year it was a combination of both for me), I always get this slightly unsettled feeling in my stomach, and spend the day feeling kind of detached from the world. Elections bring out the worst in some people, and unfortunately, I almost always run into at least one, if not…
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Fiction: Fortunes Told
Fiction: Linea and Eli were not allowed to speak to each other.
Linea and Eli were not allowed to speak to each other. Minutes ago, the two eleven-year-olds had been at each other’s throats, screaming at each other with a ferocity too strong for children of their age. Now Sallie, the young woman who had been hired to watch them while they were out and about, had each of her hands around the wrist of one of the children and was blatantly refusing to let them…
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Legal Theft: Visiting Dad (1141 words)
Fiction: This week's Legal Theft Project came from me, and had to use the line "Lewis always moved at his own pace." See what I did with it.
Marcus waited patiently for Lewis to arrive. He should have known better. Lewis, in the entire twenty-one years of his life, had never been on time for a meeting even once. Why would he expect him to start showing up now? Not like this was a hard day for Marcus and he could use the support of having a concrete schedule or anything. Nope. Lewis always moved at his own pace. When Lewis came around…
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Fiction: Cousins Story [Part 1] (915 words)
Fiction: So, I was already in a bit of a mood when I finally made it into the house. This was not helped by the sound of my mother yelling. I knew there was only one person in the world who could make her yell like that, so I dropped my bags by the door and headed towards the living room to find my proof.
It was a rainy day in March when I came home to find too many cars in my driveway. Our neighborhood of townhouses didn’t leave much room for on the street parking, so I had to drive back out into the next neighborhood over to find a spot, gather my school bags in a way that was going to make sure nothing important was going to get wet, and triple check that my car was locked since I wouldn’t be…
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Days like a Dream
Yesterday was a weird day.
Nothing felt real yesterday. One thing after another it felt like a something that I would have dreamed. At any moment I felt like I was going to wake up and laugh to myself at the thought that was real. But I didn’t wake up. The day kept going, with thing after thing happening in the ways that I never imagined would actually happen. Friends were announcing unexpected pregnancies. I hung out…
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Diet Sodas are my Cigarettes
I always get so annoyed with people who keep smoking even knowing the health problems. So, why do I keep drinking Diet Soda?
I remember stomping to my room frustrated with my father. This happened with some level of frequency when I was a bratty teenager, but in this particular case, I was eight or nine. We had just spent what seemed like half the day at school talking about the dangers of tobacco and lung cancer and how cigarettes were absolutely not cool in anyway shape or form. I relayed all this information to my…
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Legal Theft Project: Goodnight
This Week I stole the line "Rain drowned the world in white noise" from my friend Kate. Come see what I did with it...
Rain drowned the world in white noise. It drowned out the sound of her grandmother’s rocking chair. It muted the sound of her brother’s music. It–well, didn’t do much for her sister’s snoring from the other bed–but it did give her something else to focus on for a little while. Lisa rolled over and watched the window. The light from the streetlight let the rain make strange patterns and shadows…
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Fiction: Our Place (495 words)
Fiction "I hate this," Nyssa groaned, twisted sideways, holding the pipe in place so that Harvey could get back at it with the wrench. "I want to have a landlord back."
“The joys of being homeowners, love,” Harvey laughed brushing his bangs out of his eyes. “I hate this,” Nyssa groaned, twisted sideways, holding the pipe in place so that Harvey could get back at it with the wrench. “I want to have a landlord back.” “Hold steady, dear,” Harvey sighed as he got the wrench in place, “and no you don’t. We are taking care of this the same night we found it. How…
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Big Plans
Here is the planned changes for my site. Hopefully, it will be nice when all is said and done.
So–I’ve been talking for a while about making this site something I can be proud of again. Time to stop vaguely say “I want to be proud” and to start discussing what changes I can actually make. I’ve divided things into the easy–the medium–and the hard. So, be prepared to see the easy ones come in to effect soon, and the hard may still be years in the making. The Easy: ~Editing old posts that…
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Fiction: Hired Help (510 words)
Fiction: “I know why you’re here,” Eleanor said softly, smoothing out the blankets in the bed around her.
“I know why you’re here,” Eleanor said softly, smoothing out the blankets in the bed around her. Bette looked up from the dress she was carefully folding and laying down in Eleanor’s trunk. “I’m sorry, My lady?” She looked wide-eyed and innocent, and Eleanor understood why she was so good at her job. “Everyone knows that you are the King’s illegitimate child, even if he won’t publicly announce…
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Trying and Failing
I've got to learn to not be afraid of failure, so that one day I might be able to succeed. Here's step one--
Okay, so I’m glad I didn’t agree to the noon thing on Monday because yesterday I was already late–but that’s okay. Baby steps. In further thought, I’ve realized (or remembered, because I’m pretty sure I’ve learned this about myself before but didn’t do anything about it) that the reason that I don’t take those steps, start those big projects, hope for the best, is because there is a very real…
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Fiction: Opening Doors (504 words)
“We’re not allowed in here,” the nine-year-old boy said quietly at the doorway, not bothering to hide the fear in his voice. The five-year-old girl heard that fear and hid from Linea behind the boy’s shoulder, still not letting go of the boy’s hand. “We can’t afford to be kicked out,” the boy continued, “We don’t have anywhere else to go.”
“We’re not allowed in here,” the nine-year-old boy said quietly at the doorway, not bothering to hide the fear in his voice. The five-year-old girl heard that fear and hid from Linea behind the boy’s shoulder, still not letting go of the boy’s hand. “We can’t afford to be kicked out,” the boy continued, “We don’t have anywhere else to go.” “Your sister is too scared to sleep downstairs,” Linea…
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Promises and Goals
I'm trying to change things up for the better--both in my life and on this blog. Here's the next step in that...
Okay, here’s the deal. I don’t know what I want to do with my life. I’ve been thinking recently about all the big things like careers and families and all those kinds of things and I have a list of things (many of them contradicting) that I want to achieve but none of them seem obtainable or manageable or in some cases even possible. I’ve been in a funk because I’ve spent all this time looking at…
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Fiction: Bedtime (463 words)
Fiction: Bedtime (463 words)
“So—Then you fell in love and now we’re going to live happily ever after with him, right?” Her seven year old looked up at her with such hope that she had to smile in spite of what she was going to say. “I’m sorry, sweetie, it doesn’t really work like that.” She tucked the comforter a little tighter around her son. “Why not? That’s how it worked with Daddy, right? You met, you feel in love, you…
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Legal Theft Project: Some RPG with a 6 on the end (521 words)
Legal Theft Project: Some RPG with a 6 on the end (521 words)
“So, after all that, You don’t care?” I was nearly at my wit’s end. Leigh had woken up this morning because she couldn’t buy this game online—sold out everywhere. I’d never heard of it before, but apparently, it was absolutely devastating that she wouldn’t have access on the first night—putting her forever at a disadvantage for the life cycle of this game. We had driven to sixteen different…
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Fiction: Coma (Part 1 of 2)
Fiction: Coma (Part 1 of 2)
He knew he should go to bed. He’d been awake for almost seventy hours straight, which meant he’d long passed the point of being any help to anyone. And yet… She was still unconscious. He tried not to think about it, maybe (most likely) that was the reason he couldn’t bring himself to lay down. “She’s doing enough sleeping for the both of us,” he casually teased with just enough edge to his…
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