Old Things
He wondered suddenly, with dread, if she would tell him her life story. How she was alone in the world, working for next to nothing for a man who had everything and existing in a small garret apartment in a rather rundown part of town.
Category: Short Fiction
Love’s Trouble for Me
If I’m not hampered by the preoccupations of love, that swipe is painless, goes without a hitch, you’re dead before your mind can reach even pain.
Read It Twice
But guilt pervaded his conscious one particular morning when realizing that premarital sex was the only type of sex he had ever had.
Sleepy
The thought came to me when I saw my neighbor walking his dog. Every day he walked his dog at the same time. The dog was big and black with a square head and a sleek body. It’s a personal prerogative I know but I prefer if a dog has …
When She Thought of Him
After the shove or taunt from girls her own age she imagined herself with the older man of her dreams. He was the one who would cause envy in all those who sneered at her during the day.
NO!
Ah, the horrible beauty of it! I was dying too, there was no hope for me but rather than spending my final moments cleansing my soul before God, I was watching this creature struggle against the agony of death in a way I was certain no other human being around her was doing.
A Cup of Coffee
There stands my Dad waving me to work. He looks at least 30 years younger because he’s at least three years in his grave this month.
He Danced Her
So she enameled the floor ebony and coated the walls black, encasing her bed in dark Egyptian cotton and flung across the canopy blackest velvet curtains.
Music
A dirge
Listen
It’s my wish to hear your voice
to walk cobble stoned streets
to watch the darkness, descend