• Chasing a Ghost

    I had suspected I was chasing a ghost for several months now.  I just hoped it wasn’t time.  If it was time, everything I had been doing – all the work I had done for the last few months – was a total waste.  All I needed to do was to find my cousin.  If she…

  • The Waiter

  • High Pitched

    “If his voice hadn’t been so high-pitched, I think I would have been able to handle what happened. But I… just couldn’t listen anymore.”   Out of the corner of my eye, I watched Jessica turn and look in my direction for confirmation what she had done was correct. Was good. Was right. I couldn’t…

  • Running

    “You can’t run forever,” the voice said. “I will find you before you even remember your birthday.”  I pressed pause on the voicemail before the man could say anything else. I didn’t know who it was, but I knew what he was talking about. My past was finally catching up to me. I took a…

  • Wanderlust

  • A Poet

  • Neglected

    I knew my life was going downhill when I saw the flowers in the front garden had started to wilt. The petunias were my grandmother’s pride and joy and when the flowers went downhill, I knew her health was declining.  The problem being that just last week, she had been her perfectly normal and healthy…

  • Adopt

  • Brutal

    I never knew brutal until I left my parents’ house for the very first time.  Until that very moment, I never considered that every family didn’t have a housekeeper, a chauffeur, and a chef on call at all hours.  I didn’t know everyone didn’t have an extra vacation house or two.  When I finally went…

  • Aging

    “A tip on aging…  do it in style…” I knew I would always remember the last thing my grandfather said.  As well as the fact that I didn’t know if I was going to laugh or cry.  He was the consummate joker and of course he would go out in style.  But as my grief…