Tag: introspection

  • Birdsong and Crickets: Dealing with Introspection

    Birdsong and Crickets: Dealing with Introspection

    I’m sitting on the porch in the early morning hours. It’s not exactly dark, despite the pre-dawn hour. The neighborhood has a few street lights. I can see my coffee cup on the table next to me well enough to find it without dunking fingers or knocking it over. The air resonates with a myriad…

  • Be a Mistake

    Be a Mistake

    (author’s note: flash fiction from a friend’s prompt about giving compliments and how they help the giver more than the given). “It would be a mistake,” she said, crossing her legs and looking out over the water, not at him. Never at him. “To say I didn’t care.” “No?” He stood looking over her head…