Es[Sent]ial
Love is like a seesaw. It is so up and down. In order to keep up with the recurring changes of that seesaw, One must understand why the...
Seven Stages of Cancer
Cancer is the beautiful lie to your ugly truth. A natural disaster that randomly shows up. First stage, I'M BROKEN I can hear the...
7 Stages of my Life
The baby tries to escape the crib, because he has ADHD. The young boy bounces off the walls like a jumping bean in a jar. The pre-teen he...
Branches
Love at first is vulnerable, like a tree freshly grown. Unable to survive on its own, without care and compassion. Gaining trust quickly,...
Boil and Beam
The red enameled kettle whistles to the artist it’s beautiful song Yet underneath the steel, scalding bubbles of water swim and pop like...
More than an Author's Note
On September 6, 1992, the decomposing body of a young man was discovered inside an abandoned bus within the Alaskan wilderness. In the...
Requiem of Roses
Please let me forget it all. Allow these old memories to flow out as I yearn for liberosis. This dead reckoning strikes as a nighthawk....
From a God to Nearly Gone: The Axolotl
A group of axolotls is swimming playfully in the calm waters of Lake Texcoco, Mexico. They go about their day naturally, but unbeknownst...
What Leadership Means to Me
To most, leadership is considered being the loudest, or maybe the smartest. Most see it as someone special. They are someone to look up...
10/30 Writing Prompt
Summer: "Gosh darn it, not again" I say to the vampire in the closet. Nos Feratu looks at me with sly eyes, his usual guilty expression....