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Leona knelt at the watering hole to lap at the tepid, scummy water. She saw herself reflected in it, coat scruffy and eyes dull. This hadn’t been what she’d thought would happen, months ago, when she’d met a mouse and accepted his help in return for the relief of having the festering thorn drawn from…

“How do I choose what I will do with my life? How do I know what consequences those choices will have for me ten, twenty years down the road?” The slender, brown-eyed girl frowned at the reflection in the mirror. She had received three acceptance letters from college in the mail that afternoon, and had…

Joe slouched in a hard chair, his phone dangling from one limp hand. He almost let go and let it all fall down, down to the floor. He wanted to just stop the world and get off now. Everything was gone, it was all laid to waste and his life might as well be over.…

I’d written a lovely story about the USO in Vietnam, and my computer crashed and I hadn’t saved it… bad Cedar! I just got home from Civil Air Patrol meeting with my daughter and found it gone. With only an hour to deadline, I’m not going to be able to finish writing it, now. I…

My Indie Ink writing challege – “The betrayal that wasn’t.” “It is done.” she whispered, head bowed and silken hair falling down around her face to hide it.He might have looked back, but she would never know, with her eyes tightly shut and hands over her face.She had just sent her child off into the…

While I’m reflecting on life changes and going though old files, I came across this one. I can remember feeling this way, but this last year, away from the crushing depression and failed marriage, I didn’t feel this way in February. I still hate shoveling snow and battling slush, but I’m not feeling like this.…

And I don’t know where it went. Saturday my fiance twisted his knee, and Sunday morning I took him to the ER. It develops that he may have torn his ACL, and on top of previous injuries he is laid up. I am suddenly doing the work of two people, and I have gone from…

Duty was neither to be entered upon lightly, nor to be worn as a badge of honor. Yet even in her short life, Liatris had seen both. Had done the first, as a matter of fact. Which was arguably what had led her to this forgotten backwater. She liked backwaters. Had grown up in one,…

When i was nine, I was as insouciant a saucy wench as you can imagine. I had no idea I was a child – I almost never thought of myself as any age at all. This was mostly due to the fact that I was home schooled and had little contact that year with any…

In life there are so many chances to say goodbye. Sometimes we don’t mean it, not really. English is a little imprecise that way. Goodbye might mean see you later, see you tomorrow. It might mean see you next week. Rarely, in our globe-trotting, fast moving world, does it actually mean “I will never see…

Here, at the end of all time and reason In the limitless fog of life I can stand at last and say I loved this man. It is finished. With mist lapping at my ankles  Like the swirling of a skirt All the times we fought and loved Raced onward to the end of everything.…