We drove so fast we couldn’t see the speed limit. That didn’t matter because the mountains stood still. It was as if time stood still while yet being in motion. I wanted to us to pull over several times so I could climb to the highest peak of every mountain. Stand there and declare to…
She sat in front of the wall, contemplating. An unfamiliar feeling had come over her. An unfamiliar thought. This was the umpteenth job interview she’d been on that week with the same response of “We’ll be in touch” only to never hear from them again. She was tired of detached promises. Why can’t people just…
They met online via a dating app and after months of getting to know each other through calls and texts and video chats, they took a chance and flew to Mexico to meet face to face for the first time. Going somewhere neither lived was equal ground as it left neither sacrificing more than the…
Every evening on my way home from class, I would park my car and take a walk by the farm. She would be in the distance, staring. Never coming close. Today was different. She walked. The hairs on her tail moving with the breeze as she walked closer to me. Close enough to hear my…
Brightness has always been uncomfortable to me. Maybe it’s because my mom never opened the curtains when I was young. She’d scream, “You’ll go blind,” then tie a blindfold over my eyes and sit me in the corner for hours. It was ingrained in me that daylight was bad and darkness was good. Looking at…
As the plane rises above the clouds, I sit in tears. I left him. After 25 years of marriage, I. Left. Him. It won’t be hours until he finds out because he’s away on a business trip. A business trip, so he said, but I know differently. Something in me always knew, it’s just taken…