Category: Fiction

His fingers were starting to numb in the bite of dusk. Wind was kicking up too. The job wasn’t easy, panhandling. Every morning between the hours of six and nine he would stand on the lane island on Washington St. and War Memorial. War Memorial he thought. The perfect name for the perfect irony: a […]

Leaving her beloved city with lights dancing on the sidewalk was tough, but going home was tougher. “Who says you can’t go home?” Abigail said to herself, as she rode the train. “Me, that’s who.” Following her mother’s death her father began to decline rapidly. None of her siblings were any help, or even interested […]

The stars had always reminded her of home. The sparkling icicles melting in the morning sun. The twinkling fireflies dancing over fields damp from summer rain. And here she was. Floating among them. The radio in her helmet crackled as she floated further and further from her salvation. The ship became a speck on the […]

I steady my breathing, clumsily adjusting my backpack straps which always end up annoyingly uneven, no matter what I do. Stopping before a set of doors, I quickly run through a list of how to seem confident that I stole from the internet. Pathetic, I know. I roll back my shoulders, tilt my head up, […]

Hula was unique, different. Hula did not belong.  Hula’s only desire was to belong. As a newborn, she was found in the desert alone. The scientists finding her, adopted her, but were amazed that she was not burnt by the sun nor harmed by creatures. They were loving but distant; never inspiring a sense of […]

Conch shells blew as the new bride stepped in, leaving her red dyed footprints on the floor. After completing the rituals, she was ushered into her bedroom. The new furniture had been set. The lavender walls reminded her of how she drove her cousin crazy trying to select matching bed clothes. She had painstakingly selected […]

She accosted him as he entered their college dormitory. “Is it my fault? Did I say something?” He started, shaken from his musings. “Sorry. Don’t follow.” “I saw you entering the psychobabble office. They badgered me about my relationships with others. Didn’t think I said anything bad about you.” He hesitated, reliving his confrontation with […]

I don’t remember the time before Caius Aurelius Britannicus found me.  He became my father even before he officially adopted me.  With him, I belonged.  When I lost him to the fire, during the great rebellion, a bit of myself went with him. I needed a new purpose and the army gave it to me.  […]

A comfortable room.A cozy fire.Two old men. Between them, a checkerboard, a plate of homemade cookies, the interwoven threads of their lives. “Tell Emma these cookies are delicious.”Caleb grins. “She’s a fine cook. Didn’t she bake the cake for your first wedding?”“Yep. Had pink roses all over,” Seth remembers. “Sarah loved roses. Yellow honeysuckle for […]

Moving in and out of school after school really makes a person tired. It wasn’t even that I was bad at school or anything. I got A’s in all my classes, made friends, even if I did lose them in the next five minutes, I even ate the school food and thanked the adults who […]

The wetland at the back of our house provided the opportunity to watch a wide variety of birds in their natural habitat.  The avian flocks that inhabit the marshland were not only non-migrant but also mobile in behaviour. David Hatch, the famous ornithologist, was considered worthy of respect in his own right. He was a […]

The holidays had barely started and already she wished to be somewhere else. “Say, when is it your time, Rosie?” Out of nowhere, Aunt Delia had appeared and presently stood smiling crookedly at her as if they shared some inside joke, before nodding in the direction of the kids rustling about. “Your parents aren’t getting […]